734 BC - The Encyclopedia

Millennium:	1st millennium BC
Centuries:	9th century BC - 8th century BC - 7th century BC
Decades:	760s BC 750s BC 740s BC - 730s BC - 720s BC 710s BC 700s BC
Years:	739 BC 738 BC 737 BC 736 BC 735 BC 734 BC 733 BC 732 BC 731 BC 730 BC
Categories:	Births - Deaths - Architecture Establishments - Disestablishments

[edit] Events and trends

739 BC — Hiram II becomes king of Tyre.
738 BC — King Tiglath-Pileser III of Assyria invades Israel, forcing it to pay tribute.
735 BC — Naxos in Sicily founded as a colony of Chalcis in Euboea. (traditional date)
734 BC — Syracuse founded in Sicily as a joint colony of Corinth and Tenea, under the leadership of Archias
732 BC — Hoshea becomes the last king of Israel.
730 BC — Northern Egypt ends to be ruled by Libyan pharaohs.
730 BC — Osorkon IV succeeds Sheshonq IV as king of the Twenty-second dynasty of Egypt.
730 BC — Piye succeeds his father Kashta as king of the Nubian kingdom of Napata.
730 BC — Mattan II succeeds Hiram II as king of Tyre.
730 BC — Leontini in Sicily founded by colonists from Naxos

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