778 BC - Agamestor, King of Athens dies after a reign of 17 years and is succeeded by his son Aeschylus.
776 BC - First recorded Olympic Games. The history of the Games is believed to reach as far back as the 13th century BC but no older written record survives.
774 BC - End of the reign of king Pygmalion of Tyre.
770 BC - Beginning of the Eastern China as Zhou ping wang becomes the first King of the Zhou to rule from the new capital of Chengzhou (today Luoyang).
[Hammond Almanac, p.789] 520-465 BC Xerxes I, King of Persia was the son of Darius I and grandson of Cyrus, founder of the Persian Empire.
paraphrased from the visually strong HyperHistory c.518-c.438 BC Pindar, Greek Poet, was born in Boetia, central Greece, and is considered the greatest of the Greek choral lyricists.
c.250 BC "Archimedes studied the equilibrium of planes and the centre of gravity of planes and deduced the laws of the levers.
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