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• 879 BC - Death of Zhou yi wang, King of the Zhou Dynasty 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.
• 878 BC - Zhou li wang becomes King of the Zhou Dynasty 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.
• 874 BC - Osorkon II succeeds Takelot as king of the Twenty-second dynasty of Egypt .
• 874 BC - AhabAhab or Acha'av "Brother of father", Standard Hebrew Aaav Tiberian Hebrew Aa was King of Israel, and the son and successor of Omri ( 1 Kings 16:29-34). Albright has dated his reign to 869 850 BC, while Thiele offers the dates 874 853 BC. He married Jezebe becomes king of IsraelThe Kingdom of Israel Malchut Yisrael in Hebrew), according to the Bible, was the nation formed around 1021BC from the descendants of Jacob, son of Isaac, who was given the name Israel meaning Struggles With God''. Following the death of King Solomon, c 9 (approximate date)
• 872 BC - An exceptionally high flood of the NileThe Nile ( Arabic: an-nil , in Africa, is one of the two longest rivers on Earth. Whether the Nile is longer than South America's Amazon still remains the subject of much debate. This is, for the most part, due to two reasons: first, the lengths of rivers covers the floors of the Temple of Luxor

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