Editing 770s BC (section)

==Events and trends==
*778 BC—Agamestor, [[Eponymous archon|Archon of Athens]], dies after a reign of 17 years and is succeeded by his son Aeschylus.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Crabb |first=George |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=uVZBAAAAcAAJ&pg=RA1-PA91 |title=Universal Historical Dictionary: Or Explanation of the Names of Persons and Places in the Departments of Biblical, Political and Eccles. History, Mythology, Heraldry, Biography, Bibliography, Geography, and Numismatics |date=1833 |publisher=Baldwin and Cradock |pages=91 |language=en}}</ref>
*777 BC—Death of Pārśva or [[Parshvanatha|Pārśvanātha]] (c. 877–777 BCE), the twenty-third [[Tirthankara]] of [[Jainism]].
*776 BC—First [[Ancient Olympic Games|Olympic Games]], according to [[Diodorus Siculus]] (of the [[1st century BC]]). The games would continue to [[394]] AD. The [[Olympiad]] year would later be used by historians to reckon dates in a unified fashion where different Greek calendar systems were in use.
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*774 BC— [[Shalmaneser IV]] begins his campaign to Namri in [[Urartu]] and a final campaign to [[Damascus]]<ref>{{Cite web |title=The Neo Assyrian Eponyms |url=https://cdli.ox.ac.uk/wiki/doku.php?id=list_of_neo_assyrian_limmu_officials|access-date=2023-02-23 |website=[[Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative]]}}</ref>
*773 BC—[[Ashur-Dan III]] succeeds his brother [[Shalmaneser IV]] as king of [[Assyria]].<ref>{{Cite book |last=Chen |first=Fei |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1152355809 |title=Study on the Synchronistic King list from Ashur |date=2020 |isbn=978-90-04-43092-1 |location=Leiden |pages=200 |oclc=1152355809}}</ref>
*771 BC—[[Spring and Autumn period]] of [[China]]'s history begins with the decline of the [[Zhou dynasty]] as [[Haojing]] is sacked by [[Quanrong]] nomads, [[King You of Zhou|King You]] is killed and his successor, [[King Ping of Zhou|King Ping]] is forced to move the capital to [[Chengzhou]]. End of the Western Zhou Dynasty. Beginning of Eastern Zhou Dynasty.
*770 BC—Beginning of the [[Eastern Zhou]] dynasty in [[China]] as [[Zhou ping wang|King Ping of Zhou]] becomes the first King of the Zhou to rule from the new capital of Chengzhou (later known as [[Luoyang]]).<ref>{{Cite web |last=Art |first=Authors: Department of Asian |title=Shang and Zhou Dynasties: The Bronze Age of China {{!}} Essay {{!}} The Metropolitan Museum of Art {{!}} Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History |url=https://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/shzh/hd_shzh.htm |access-date=2024-05-11 |website=The Met’s Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History |language=en}}</ref>
* 770 BC—The Huangdi Neijing (Canon of Internal Medicine), considered the earliest extant medical book, is believed to have been compiled after this year (770 BC–221 BC).<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Hao |first=Yun-Fang |last2=Jiang |first2=Jian-Guo |date=2015 |title=Origin and evolution of China Pharmacopoeia and its implication for traditional medicines |url=https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/25877600/ |journal=Mini Reviews in Medicinal Chemistry |volume=15 |issue=7 |pages=595–603 |doi=10.2174/1389557515666150415150803 |issn=1875-5607 |pmid=25877600}}</ref>