8th century BC - Definition and Overview

(9th century BC - 8th century BC - 7th century BC - other centuries)

(800s BC - 790s BC - 780s BC - 770s BC - 760s BC - 750s BC - 740s BC - 730s BC - 720s BC - 710s BC - 700s BC - other decades)

(2nd millennium BC - 1st millennium BC - 1st millennium AD)

Events

• Golden age in Armenia
• Assyria conquers Damascus and Samaria
• Nineveh destroyed (789 BC)
• First recorded Olympic Games held in Greece (776 BC)
• Zhou Dynasty moved its capital to Luoyang ((771 BC); The Spring and Autumn Period(771-481 BC) began.
• According to tradition, Rome founded (753 BC, 21 April)
• Destruction of the Kingdom of Israel by Assyrian king Sargon II (721 BC)
• Greeks colonize Mediterranean and Black Seas.

Significant persons

• Midas (King of Phrygia)
• Hezekiah of the Kingdom of Judah (reigned 715 - 687 BC).
• Sennacherib, King of Assyria and conqueror of Babylon (705 - 681 BC).

Inventions, discoveries, introductions

• Olmecs builds pyramids (800s BC)
• Chinese record solar eclipse