8th century BC
(9th century BC - 8th century BC - 7th century BC - other centuries)
(800s BC - 790s BC - 780s BC - 770s BC - 760s BC - 750s BC - 740s BC - 730s BC - 720s BC - 710s BC - 700s BC - other decades)
(2nd millennium BC - 1st millennium BC - 1st millennium AD)
Events:
- Golden age in Armenia
- Assyria conquers Damascus and Samaria
- Nineveh destroyed (789 BC)
- First recorded Olympic Games held in Greece (776 BC)
- According to tradition, Rome founded (753 BC, 21 April)
- Greeks colonize Mediterranean and Black Seas.
- Midas (King of Phrygia)
- Hezekiah of the Kingdom of Judah (reigned 715 - 687 BC).
- Sennacherib, King of Assyria and conqueror of Babylon ( 705 - 681 BC).