• 776 BC - First Olympic Games.
• 774 BC - End of the reign of king Pygmalion of Tyre.
• 773 BC - Death of Shoshenq III[?], king of Egypt.
• 771 BC - Death of Zhou you wang[?], King of the Zhou Dynasty of China.
• 771 BC - End of the Western Zhou Dynasty in China as Western barbarian tribes sack the capital Hao[?]. The King Zhou you wang[?] is killed. Crown Prince Ji Yi Jiu[?] escapes to the East where he will reign as Zhou ping wang[?].
• 770 BC - Beginning of the Eastern Zhou Dynasty in China as Zhou ping wang[?] becomes the first King of the Dynasty to rule from the new capital of Chengzhou[?] (today Luoyang).

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