=1120.= Beginning of the reign of Tiglath-Pileser, King of Assyria.

=1100.= Dorian migration into the Peloponnesus.

=1095 (1055; 1080 common chronology).= Hebrews establish the monarchy.  Saul the first king.

=1058 (1033).= At Gilboa, Saul is defeated by the Philistines.  David becomes king in Judah.

=1017 (998).= Accession of Solomon as king of the Hebrews.  The Temple at Jerusalem is built in this reign.  See “ACCESSION OF SOLOMON,” i, 92.

=1015.= Smyrna founded.

=977 (953).= Israel and Judah become separate kingdoms, following the revolt of the Ten Tribes under Jeroboam.

=973 (949).= Jerusalem captured by Sheshonk, King of Egypt.

=958 (929).= Asa ascends the throne of Judah.

=931 (899).= Omri’s accession in Israel.

=917 (873).= Jehoshaphat begins his reign in Judah.

=900 (853).= The Syrians defeat and slay Ahab, King of Israel, at Ramoth-Gilead.

Divambar conquers Armenia, Persia, Syria, and adjacent lands.

=887 (843).= The throne of Israel usurped by Jehu.

=850.= The Tyrians colonize Carthage.

=811 (792).= Uzziah succeeds to the throne of Judah.

=800.= The canal and tunnel of Negoub constructed to convey the waters of the Zab River to Nineveh.

=800 (850).= Sparta:  Probable date of the legislation of Lycurgus.

=790 (825).= Jeroboam II becomes King of Israel.

=789.= First destruction of Nineveh:  death of Sardanapalus.  See “FIRST DESTRUCTION OF NINEVEH,” i, 105.

=776.= Beginning of the Olympiads.  Olympiad in ancient Greece meant the space of four years between one celebration of the Olympic games and another.  In this year it began as a system of chronology.

=772. [A](748)=.  End of Jehu’s dynasty in Israel.

=753 (common chronology).= “FOUNDATION OF ROME.”  See i, 116.

=750.= [A] The Corinthians found Syracuse.

=743-724.= First great war between Sparta and Messenia:  the latter is subjugated.

=734.= [A] Syria becomes subject to Tiglath-Pileser II of Assyria.

=731.= [A] Tiglath-Pileser II subjects Chaldea.

=727. [A] (728)=.  Hezekiah ascends the throne of Judah.

=722.= [A] King Sargon of Assyria conquers Samaria; he puts an end to the kingdom of Israel.  Captivity of the Ten Tribes.

=701.= Siege of Jerusalem by Sennacherib; he encounters the Egyptian and Ethiopian forces; his expedition into Syria fails.

=697.= Accession of Manasseh to the throne of Judah.

=685-668.= The second war between Sparta and Messenia.

=660.= [A] Prince Jimmu establishes Yamato as the capital of Japan.  See “PRINCE JIMMU FOUNDS JAPAN’S CAPITAL,” i, 140.

=650.=[A] The whole of Egypt united under Psammetichus I, founder of the XXVI dynasty.  He frees Egypt from Assyrian rule and opens the country to the Greeks.