Dedication of Solomon’s temple 1004 Samos built 986 Division of the kingdom of Judah and Israel 975 Homer and Hesiod flourished about this time, according to the marbles 907 Elias the prophet taken up into heaven 896 Lycurgus, 42 years old, establishes his laws at Lacedæmon, and, together with Iphitus and Cleosthenes, restores the Olympic games at Elis, about 108 years before the era which is commonly called the first Olympiad 884 Phidon king of Argos is supposed to have invented scales and measures, and coined silver at Ægina. Carthage built by Dido 869 Fall of the Assyrian empire by the death of Sardanapalus, an era placed 80 years earlier by Justin 820 The kingdom of Macedonia begins, and continues 646 years, till the battle of Pydna 814 The kingdom of Lydia begins, and continues 249 years 797 The triremes first invented by the Corinthians 786 The monarchical government abolished at Corinth, and the Prytanes elected 779 Corœbus conquers at Olympia, in the 28th Olympiad from the institution of Iphitus. This is vulgarly called the first Olympiad, about 23 years before the foundation of Rome 776 The Ephori introduced into the government of Lacedæmon by Theopompus 760 Isaiah begins to prophesy 757 The decennial archons begin at Athens, of which Charops is the first 754 Rome built on the 20th of April, according to Varro, in the year 3961 of the Julian period 753 The rape of the Sabines 750 The era of Nabonassar king of Babylon begins 747 The first Messenian war begins, and continues 19 years, to the taking of Ithome 743 Syracuse built by a Corinthian colony 732 The kingdom of Israel finished by the taking of Samaria by Salmanasar king of Assyria. The first eclipse of the moon on record March 19th, according to Ptolemy 721 Candaules murdered by Gyges, who succeeds to the Lydian throne 718 Tarentum built by the Parthenians 707 Corcyra built by the Corinthians 703