710s BC

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Millennium:	1st millennium BC
Centuries:	9th century BC - 8th century BC - 7th century BC
Decades:	740s BC 730s BC 720s BC - 710s BC - 700s BC 690s BC 680s BC
Years:	719 BC 718 BC 717 BC 716 BC 715 BC 714 BC 713 BC 712 BC 711 BC 710 BC
Categories:	Births - Deaths - Architecture Establishments - Disestablishments

[edit] Events and trends

• Judah, Tyre and Sidon revolt against Assyria.
• 719 BC — Zhou Huan Wang of the Zhou Dynasty becomes ruler of China.
• 718 BC — Gyges becomes the ruler of Lydia.
• 717 BC — Assyrian king Sargon conquers the Hittites stronghold of Carchemish.
• 717 BC — Sargon II founds a new capital for Assyria at Dur-Sharrukin.
• 717 BC–716 BC — Sargon II leads his armies in a sweeping attack along the Philistine coast, where he defeated the pharaoh.
• 716 BC — Roman legend marks this as the date that Romulus ended his rule.
• 715 BC — Start of the reign of the second King of Rome — Numa Pompilius.
• c. 715 BC — Conquest of Messenia by Sparta ends.
• 713 BC — Numa Pompilius reforms the Roman calendar.
• 712 BC — Numa Pompilius creates the office of Pontifex Maximus.
• c. 710 BC — Medes is united.

[edit] Significant people

• 716 BC - Piye dies.
• 715 BC — Osorkon IV dies, ending the Twenty-second dynasty of Egypt.
• 713 BC — Birth of semi-legendary Zalmoxis in Dacia.