776 BC information

The year 776 BC is largely known for being the first year of the Attic calendar, also known as the Ancient Greek calendar or the Olympiad era. July – The...

Jainism. 776 BC–394 AD—Era of the ancient Greek Olympic Games. 776 BC—First Olympic Games, according to Diodorus Siculus (of the 1st century BC). 773 BC—Ashur-Dan...

Classical Antiquity, with the first Olympiad set at 776 BC, and the epics of Homer dated to between 750 and 650 BC. Iron Age India enters the later Vedic period...

1050 BC – 776 BC) Archaic Greece (776 BC – 480 BC) – begins with the First Olympiad, traditionally dated 776 BC Archaic period (776 BC – 612 BC) – the...

(mythikón) lasted from 2137 to 776 BC, or if Censorinus' own dates are used: 2376 BC to 776 BC, or finally if Castor's: 2123 BC to 776 BC. Ovid, however, dated...

Hippias's dating, his victory is generally placed in the summer of the year 776 BC. The stadium at Olympia was one stade (600 Greek feet, 630.8 English feet...

Near East: 722 BC: Sargon II takes Samaria; Assyrian captivity of the Israelites. Greece: Archaic Greece, Greek alphabet Greece: Homer 776 BC: Greece: First...

traditional date for the establishment of the Ancient Olympic Games, in 776 BC. The Phoenicians originally expanded from ports in Canaan, by the 8th century...

Organized athletics are traced back to the Ancient Olympic Games from 776 BC. The rules and format of the modern events in athletics were defined in...

of 776 BC in the Proleptic Julian calendar, and to treat it as Year 1 of Olympiad 1. Olympiad 2 began with the next games in the summer of 772 BC. Thus...

mythological origin. The originating Olympic Games are traditionally dated to 776 BC. The games were held every four years, or Olympiad, which became a unit...

implausibly early Xenophonic 11th century BC, the early ninth century (c. 885 BC) to as late as early eighth century (c. 776 BC). There remains no consensus as...

by the ancient Olympic Games, which were held in Olympia, Greece, from 776 BC to 394 AD. The Baron Pierre de Coubertin of France founded the International...

Epitalion and Olympia, known for the ancient Olympic Games which started in 776 BC. The northernmost point of Elis is 38° 06'N, the westernmost is 22° 12′E...

Olympics is 776 BC; this is based on inscriptions, found at Olympia, listing the winners of a footrace held every four years starting in 776 BC. For the...

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(849–799 BC) Pradyota Dynasty Pradyota, King (779–776 BC) Palaka, King (776–752 BC) Visakhayupa, King (752–702 BC) Janaka, King (702–681 BC) Pradyota...

of the known victors of the ancient Olympic Games from the 1st Games in 776 BC up to 264th in 277 AD, as well as the games of 369 AD before their permanent...

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Truce is a tradition originating from ancient Greece that dates back to 776 BC. A "truce" (Ancient Greek: ékécheiria, meaning "laying down of arms") was...

Pan-Hellenism in the 8th century BC. According to some scholars, the foundational event was the Olympic Games in 776 BC, when the idea of a common Hellenism...

Stadium at Olympia in Greece, where the ancient Olympic Games were held from 776 BC. Initially the Games consisted of a single event, a sprint along the length...

Fortress in 782 BC, settling it with 6,600 prisoners of war from Hatti and Supani. He also founded the fortress of Argishtikhinili in 776 BC, on the site...

the fourth world in 3114 BC. Olympiads, the ancient Greek era of four-year periods between Olympic Games, beginning in 776 BC. Ab urbe condita ("from the...

(died 812 BC), ruler of the state of Jin from c. 798 to 776 BC King Mu of Zhou (died 922 BC), king of the state of Zhou from c. 976 to 922 BC Mu Dan (1918–1977)...

Olympiad of 776 BC, when Coroebus of Elis win the foot race named stadion. The work of Hippias revised and continued in the 4th century BC by Aristotle...

following is a list of winners of the Stadion race at the Olympic Games from 776 BC to 225 AD. It is based on the list given by Eusebius of Caesarea using a...

Olympic Games, ancient multi-sport event held in Olympia, Greece between 776 BC and 393 AD Olympic (greyhounds), a competition held annually at Brighton...