------------------------------------------------------------------------ | | 1070--Codrus, last king of Athens. | ASSYRIAN EMPIRE | | | | | | | | | 1015--Minos gives laws in Crete. 1000 | | ------------------------------------------------------------------------ | | | ASSYRIAN | | | | | 900 | | ------------------------------------------------------------------------ | | 886--Homeric Poems brought into Greece. | | | | | | | | | | 850--Lycurgus, lawgiver of Sparta. | | 800 | | ------------------------------------------------------------------------ | EMPIRE. | | | | | 753--Traditional founding of Rome by | | Romulus. | | 750--Syracuse in Sicily founded by | | Corinthians. | | | | | | | | | | 708--Median Kingdom begins under Deioces. 700 | | ------------------------------------------------------------------------ | | | | | | 660--Japanese History begins with Jimmu | 626 B.C. | Tenno whose descendants have reigned +-----------------+ since without intermission. | | 658--Byzantium founded by Byzas. 640--Media | | independent of Assyria. | | 621--Laws of Draco in Athens. | | | | |CHALDEAN EMPIRE | | | 600 | | ------------------------------------------------------------------------ | | 583--Laws of Solon in Athens. | | 578--Money coined in Rome. | | 560--Pisistratus usurps rule at Athens. | | 557--Buddha born in India. | | 550--Confucius born. Laocius and Mencius, | | the other Chinese sages, lived in same | 536 B.C. | century. 546--Cyrus overthrows empire of +-----------------+ Croesus. | | 510--Romans abolish royalty; Government by | | Consuls begins.