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752 BC

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Events

  • Romulus, first king of Rome, celebrates the first Roman triumph after his victory over the Caeninenses, following the Rape of the Sabine Women. He celebrates a further triumph later in the year over the Antemnates.
  • Rome's first colonies were established.
  • Diocles of Messenia won the seventh Ancient Olympic Games.
  • (or 745 BC) Menahem succeeds Shallum of Israel as king of the ancient Kingdom of Israel.
  • Piye succeeds Kashta as Kushite king, and conquers Egypt founding the Twenty-fifth dynasty of Egypt.
  • Visakhayupa succeeds Palaka as emperor of Magadha.
  • Births

  • Dionysius of Halicarnassus dates the foundation of Rome to 752 BC/2 AUC (traditional date: 21 April 753 BC): "Romulus, the first ruler of the city, began his reign in the first year of the seventh Olympiad, when Charops at Athens was in the first year of his ten-year term as archon."
  • Deaths

  • Zechariah of Israel, king of the northern Israelite Kingdom of Israel, and son of Jeroboam II.
  • Alara of Nubia, king of Kush.
  • References

    752 BC Wikipedia