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- JudahThe Kingdom of Judah Malchut Yehudah in Hebrew), in the times of the Hebrew Bible, was the nation formed from the territories of the tribes of Judah, Simeon and Benjamin after the Kingdom of Israel was divided, and was named after Judah son of Jacob ( Isr, TyreTyre (native Phoenician ur Akkadian urru Hebrew or , Greek Tyros Arabic as-Sur is an ancient Phoenician city in Lebanon on the coast of the Mediterranean Sea, about 23 miles, in a direct line, north of Acre, and 20 south of Sidon. Sidon was the oldest Pho and SidonSidon (also Zidon or Tzidon , and known to its inhabitants as Saida is the third-largest city in Lebanon. It is on the Mediterranean coast, about 25 miles north of Tyre and 30 miles south of the capital Beirut. Its name means a fishery''. It was one of th revolt against AssyriaThis article concerns the ancient Mesopotamian kingdom. For the modern-day peoples in northern Iraq and neighboring areas, see Assyrian. Assyria a country named after its original capital city, Asshur on the Tigris, was originally a colony of Babylonia, a
- 719 BC - Zhou Huan Wang of the Zhou Dynasty becomes ruler of ChinaThis article is on the geographic and cultural entity. For other meanings, see China (disambiguation). China ( Traditional Chinese: , Simplified Chinese: , Hanyu Pinyin: Zhongguo, Wade-Giles: Chung-kuo) is a country in continental East Asia with some oute.
- 718 BC - GygesGyges was the founder of the third or Mermnad dynasty of Lydian kings and reigned from 687 to 652 BC (according to H Gelzer. H Winckler makes it 690-657 BC). The chronology of the Lydian kings given by Herodotus has been shown by the Assyrian inscriptions becomes the ruler of Lydia.
- 717 BC - Assyrian king Sargon conquers the Hittites stronghold of Carchemish
- 717 BC - Sargon founds a new capital for Assyria at Dur-Sharrukin.
- 716 BC - Roman legend marks this as the date that Romulus ended his rule.
- 715 BC - Start of the reign of Roman King Numa Pompilius
- 713 BC - Numa Pompilius reforms the Roman calendar
- 712 BC - Numa Pompilius creates the office of Pontifex Maximus
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