Iliad

The Assyrian army is smote by God

Jan 1, 701

And he smote the men of Beth-shemesh , because they had looked into the ark of the LORD, even he smote of the people fifty thousand and threescore and ten men : and the people lamented, because the LORD had smitten many of the people with a great slaughter.

Tarentum is established in southern Italy by Sparta

Jan 1, 706

A spartan city is established

Egypt reunited under Nubian (Ethiopian) rule (25th Dynasty)

Jan 1, 720

the era of a new dyanasty would start here.

Syracuse is founded on Sicily by the Greeks

Jan 1, 733

The city of Syracuse is located on the east coast of Sicily and was originally a Greek colony founded by Corinth in 733 BC.

Sparta initiates the first Messenian War till 716.

Jan 1, 743

he First Messenian War was a war between Messenia and Sparta. It began in 743 BC and ended in 724 BC, according to the dates given by Pausanias.The war continued the rivalry between the Achaeans and the Dorians that had been initiated by the Return of the Heracleidae

Scythians are driven westward toward the Black Sea

Jan 1, 750

The Etruscans lived mainly in northern Italy. Because they were learning from the Greeks and the Phoenicians, they learned how to do a lot of things that the Latins living around Rome didn't know how to do yet. The Etruscans built cities with stone walls. They built big stone temples and they put big statues in them. They dug canals and ditches to irrigate (bring water to) their fields. They had organized governments with kings. Soon some of the other people in Italy began to copy the Etruscan w

Legendary date for the founding of Rome by Romulus and Remus

Jan 1, 753

Romulus and Remus were twin brothers. They were abandoned by their parents as babies. They founded rome

First recorded Olympic Games held at the sanctuary of Zeus in Olympia, Greece

Jan 1, 776

Olympia is an ancient Greek sanctuary in the Peloponnese region in southern Greece where every four years the ancient Olympic games were held. This was the first one belived to be recorded.

Traditional date for the Iliad and Odyssey written by Homer

Mar 2, 2022

This is the date thought to bring the books the odyssey and the book the iliad.

Greek migrants settle on the Spanish coast, Sicily and southern Italy

Mar 2, 2022

greeks migrant to find new land and end up settleing in spain, sicily and Italy.