752 BC

Millennium:	1st millennium BC
Centuries:	9th century BC 8th century BC 7th century BC
Decades:	770s BC 760s BC 750s BC 740s BC 730s BC
Years:	755 BC 754 BC 753 BC 752 BC 751 BC 750 BC 749 BC
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752 BC in various calendars

Gregorian calendar	752 BC DCCLII BC
Ab urbe condita	2
Ancient Egypt era	XXV dynasty, 1
- Pharaoh	Piye, 1
Ancient Greek era	7th Olympiad (victor )¹
Assyrian calendar	3999
Balinese saka calendar	N/A
Bengali calendar	−1345 – −1344
Berber calendar	199
Buddhist calendar	−207
Burmese calendar	−1389
Byzantine calendar	4757–4758
Chinese calendar	戊子年 (Earth  Rat) 1946 or 1739     — to — 己丑年 (Earth  Ox) 1947 or 1740
Coptic calendar	−1035 – −1034
Discordian calendar	415
Ethiopian calendar	−759 – −758
Hebrew calendar	3009–3010
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	−695 – −694
- Shaka Samvat	N/A
- Kali Yuga	2349–2350
Holocene calendar	9249
Iranian calendar	1373 BP – 1372 BP
Islamic calendar	1415 BH – 1414 BH
Javanese calendar	N/A
Julian calendar	N/A
Korean calendar	1582
Minguo calendar	2663 before ROC 民前2663年
Nanakshahi calendar	−2219
Thai solar calendar	−209 – −208
Tibetan calendar	阳土鼠年 (male Earth-Rat) −625 or −1006 or −1778     — to — 阴土牛年 (female Earth-Ox) −624 or −1005 or −1777

Events

• Romulus, first king of Rome, celebrates the first Roman triumph after his victory over the Caeninenses, following the Rape of the Sabine Women. He celebrates a further triumph later in the year over the Antemnates. ^[1]
• Rome's first colonies were established. ^[1]
• Diocles of Messenia won the seventh Ancient Olympic Games. ^[2]
• (or 745 BC) Menahem succeeds Shallum of Israel as king of the ancient Kingdom of Israel. ^[3]
• Piye succeeds Kashta as Kushite king, and conquers Egypt founding the Twenty-fifth Dynasty of Egypt.
• Visakhayupa succeeds Palaka as emperor of Magadha.

Births

• Dionysius of Halicarnassus dates the foundation of Rome to 752 BC/2 AUC (traditional date: 21 April 753 BC): "Romulus, the first ruler of the city, began his reign in the first year of the seventh Olympiad, when Charops at Athens was in the first year of his ten-year term as archon." ^[4]

Deaths

• Zechariah of Israel, king of the northern Israelite Kingdom of Israel, and son of Jeroboam II.
• Alara of Nubia, king of Kush.

References

1. Livy, Ab urbe condita , 1:10
2. Eusebius. Chronicon (English translation from Latin, original Greek lost) at Attalus.org.
3. Thiele, Edwin (1951). The Mysterious Numbers of the Hebrew Kings . New York: Macmillan. ISBN   9780825438257.
4. Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Roman Antiquities, University of Chicago, 1.75