777 BC—Death of Pārśva or Pārśvanātha (c. 877–777 BCE), the twenty-third Tirthankara of Jainism.
In 776 B.C.E, about three thousand years ago, the first Olympic Games took place. Originally, the games were part of a religious festival to honour Zeus. He was the god of the sky and the leader of the Greek gods who lived on Mount Olympus, the highest mountain in Greece. Where Were the Ancient Olympics Held?
If we count from the first year the games held in 776 B.C. to the present by 2021, the results is 2796 years old or about 2800 years.
Emergence of the first communities settled in the Chincha Valley (Peru), pertaining to Paracas culture in the south coast of Peru. End of Period IVB, Hasanlu is completely destroyed by a fire. The Greek Colonization of the Mediterranean & Black Sea.
773 BC: Death of Shoshenq III, king of Egypt. 773 BC: Ashur-Dan III succeeds his brother Shalmaneser IV as king of Assyria. 771 BC: End of the Western Zhou Dynasty in China as "western" barbarian tribes sack the capital Hao. King You of Zhou is killed.
The 8th millennium BC spanned the years 8000 BC to 7001 BC (c. 10 ka to c. 9 ka). In chronological terms, it is the second full millennium of the current Holocene epoch and is entirely within the Pre-Pottery Neolithic B (PPNB) phase of the Early Neolithic.
c. 1000 BC—Assyrians started to conquer neighbouring regions. 1000 BC—Priene, Western Anatolia is founded. c. 1000 BC—Hungarian separates from its closest linguistic relatives, the Ob-Ugric languages. c. 1000 BC—Ancient Iranian peoples enter Persia.
10,000 years ago (8,000 BC): The Quaternary extinction event, which has been ongoing since the mid-Pleistocene, concludes. Many of the ice age megafauna go extinct, including the megatherium, woolly rhinoceros, Irish elk, cave bear, cave lion, and the last of the sabre-toothed cats.
750 BC—Greeks establish colonies in Italy and Sicily. c. 750 BC – 700 BC—Funerary Vase (Krater), from the Dipylon Cemetery, Athens, is made.
By 5000 BCE, people were living around the globe in small family groups, tribes or larger communities. Some people were still in the Stone Age, some were transitioning to the Bronze Age and the rest were well entrenched in the Bronze Age.
The 7th millennium BC spanned the years 7000 BC to 6001 BC (c. 9 ka to c. 8 ka).
Consequently, historians regard all these eras as equal. Historians have never included a year zero. This means that between, for example, 1 January 500 BC and 1 January AD 500, there are 999 years: 500 years BC, and 499 years AD preceding 500.
10,000 BC, is believed to have been more or less stable. It has been estimated that there were some five million people at the time of the Last Glacial Maximum, growing to forty million by 5000 BC and 100 million by 1600 BC, which is an average growth rate of 0.027% p.a. from the Neolithic to the Middle Bronze Age.
AD or A.D. stands for Anno Domini and is a label for numbering years after Christ was born. BC or B.C. means Before Christ. The year Christ was born is considered AD 1 and the year before that is labeled 1 BC.
The former Shang lands were divided into hereditary fiefs which became increasingly independent of the king. In 771 BC, the Zhou were driven out of the Wei River valley; afterwards real power was in the hands of the king's nominal vassals.
Events. Battle of Xiao, between the states of Jin and Qin in China. Traditional date for the foundation of Epidamnus by Corinth, today Durrës in Albania. Sinsharishkun succeeds his brother Ashur-etil-ilani as king of Assyria (approximate date).
850 BC—Mesha erects the Mesha Stele, the Moabite Stone; the story is 34 lines, nearly complete and reveals the name 'Israel', a story of Mesha's revolt against the Kingdom of ancient Israel. Nazarites and Rechabites establish early temperance movement.
725 BC—Shalmaneser V starts a 3-year siege of Israel. 725 BC—Sparta conquers the neighboring region of Messenia and takes over the land. 724 BC—The Assyrians start a four-year siege of Tyre.
The transition from the Bronze Age to the Iron Age in the thirteenth and twelfth centuries BCE, is heralded by a crisis of unprecedented magnitude, which hit the ancient civilizations around the Mediterranean, and within decades brought an end to a world order which existed for a millennium.
The tablet confirms that a comet struck Earth around 11,000BC, leading to global destruction including the extinction of the woolly mammoth and the rise of new civilizations. The carvings were found in Gobekli Tepe in southern Turkey, the world's oldest known temple and a site for ancient observatory and worship.
In the Paleolithic period (roughly 2.5 million years ago to 10,000 B.C.), early humans lived in caves or simple huts or tepees and were hunters and gatherers. They used basic stone and bone tools, as well as crude stone axes, for hunting birds and wild animals.
The Paleolithic Age lasted from about 2.5 million to 8000 BCE, while the Neolithic Age lasted from approximately 8000-3000 BCE, in some areas of the world.
Ibn al-Haytham (Book of Optics), Avicenna, Averroes, and Abu Rayhan al-Biruni all flourished around the year 1000.
10,000 B.C. roughly marks the beginning of human civilization. Earth's temperatures had warmed, and the climate had stabilized. This change in climate preceded rapid growth in ecosystems, exponential growth in the human population, and exponential growth in economic activity.
Life was very different for human societies 20,000 years ago. Humans hunted animals for food and had just started living in settlements. Unfortunately, very little evidence from this period exists.