• 778 BC—Agamestor,
Archon of Athens, dies after a reign of 17 years and is succeeded by his son Aeschylus. • 777 BC—Death of Pārśva or
Pārśvanātha (c. 877–777 BCE), the twenty-third
Tirthankara of
Jainism. • 776 BC—First
Olympic Games, according to
Diodorus Siculus (of the
1st century BC). The games would continue to
394 AD. The
Olympiad year would later be used by historians to reckon dates in a unified fashion where different Greek calendar systems were in use. • 774 BC—
Shalmaneser IV begins his campaign to Namri in
Urartu and a final campaign to
Damascus • 773 BC—
Ashur-Dan III succeeds his brother
Shalmaneser IV as king of
Assyria. • 771 BC—
Spring and Autumn period of
China's history begins with the decline of the
Zhou dynasty as
Haojing is sacked by
Quanrong nomads,
King You is killed and his successor,
King Ping is forced to move the capital to
Chengzhou. End of the Western Zhou Dynasty. Beginning of Eastern Zhou Dynasty. • 770 BC—Beginning of the
Eastern Zhou dynasty in
China as
King Ping of Zhou becomes the first King of the Zhou to rule from the new capital of Chengzhou (later known as
Luoyang). • 770 BC—The Huangdi Neijing (Canon of Internal Medicine), considered the earliest extant medical book, is believed to have been compiled after this year (770 BC–221 BC). ==Births==