Ancientimes

(Remember that Before Common Era should be four years before B.C. specified dates, however Oxford have decided to match the dates BCE and BC, also CE and AD).

Key-Sources:

§ = Lempriere’s Classical Dictionary.
Δ = “...Commanders of the Ancient... World”
All others are from the Oxford Reference Archive.

ANCIENT TIMELINE II

1,088 BC: The kingdom of Sicyon ended. [Peleponnesus] §

1,070 BC: The kingdom of Athens ends in the death of Codrus. §

1,044 BC: The migration of the Ionian colonies from Greece, and their settlement in Asia Minor. §

1,037 - 967 BCE: The life and death of King David. Δ

986 BC: Samos built. §

907 BC: Homer and Hesiod flourished about this time, according to the Marbles. §

884 BC: Lycurgus, forty-two years old, establishes his laws at Lacedæmon, and, together with Iphitus and Cleosthenes, restores the Olympic games at Elis, about one-hundred and eight years before the era which is commonly called the first Olympiad. §

869 BC: Phidon, king of Argos, is supposed to have invented scales and measures, and coined at Ægina. Carthage built by Dido. §

820 BC: Fall of the Assyrian empire by the death of Sardanapalus, an era placed eighty years earlier by Justin. §

814 BC: The kingdom of Macedonia begins, and continues six-hundred and forty-six years, till the battle of Pydna. §

797 BC: The kingdom of Lydia begins, and continues 249 years. §

779 BC: The monarchical government abolished at Corinth, and the Prytanes [are] elected. §

776 BCE: Olympic games are held... in accordance with Greek tradition.

776 BC: Corœbus conquers at Olympia, in the twenty-eighth Olympiad from the institution of Ipithus. This is [wrongly] called the first Olympiad, about twenty-three years before the foundation of Rome. §

760 BC: The Ephori introduced into the government of Lacedæmon by Theopompus. §

754 BCE: The decennial archons begin at Athens, of which Charops is the first. §

753 BCE: Romulus founds Rome (according to later Roman tradition), making this the first year in the Roman calendar.

753 BC: Rome built on the 20th of April, according to Varo, in the year 3,961 of the Julian period. §

750 BCE: The Greeks make the Phœnician alphabet much more flexible by the addition of vowels. Piye, the king of Nubia (or Cush), conquers down the Nile to the sea, establishing the Cushite dynasty.

750 BC: The rape of the Sabines. §

...to be continued...

Maximus Fleximus.