730S BC

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Events and trends

Significant people

Events and trends

★ 739 BC — Hiram II becomes king of Tyre.

★ 738 BC — King Tiglath-Pileser III of Assyria invades Israel, forcing it to pay tribute.

★ 735 BC — Naxos in Sicily founded as a colony of Chalcis in Euboea. (traditional date)

★ 734 BC — Syracuse founded in Sicily as a joint colony of Corinth and Tenea, under the leadership of Archias

★ 732 BC — Hoshea becomes the last king of Israel.

★ 730 BC — Northern Egypt ends to be ruled by Libyan pharaohs.

★ 730 BC — Osorkon IV succeeds Sheshonq IV as king of the Twenty-second dynasty of Egypt.

★ 730 BC — Piye succeeds his father Kashta as king of the Nubian kingdom of Napata.

★ 730 BC — Mattan II succeeds Hiram II as king of Tyre.

★ 730 BC — Leontini in Sicily founded by colonists from Naxos

Significant people

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