780 BC to 730 BC; World History Organic Review

Readers are invited to post global historical events for each time period in the comments section below. The 8th century BC is conventionally taken as the beginning of Classical Antiquity, with the first Olympiad set at 776 BC, and the epics of Homer dated to the period. In a modern understanding of chronology, this era marks the concurrent ending of the 19th Dynasty and the beginnings of the 20th and 21st Dynasties.

The 20th Dynasty featured 3 prominent Pharaohs of the 9 who reigned: Ramses III, Ramses IX, and Ramses XI. The 21st Dynasty overlapped the 20th and the longest reigning Pharaohs were Smendes, Psusennes I, Siamun and Psusennes II.

The so-called 22nd Dynasty actually covers rulers who were contemporaneous with and/or the exaft same human beings who historians have categorized as the 19th, 20th, 21st and 23rd Dynasties.

According to Wikipedia and other sources, 771 BC marked the end of the Western Zhou Dynasty in China as "western" barbarian tribes sack the capital Hao. King You of Zhou is killed. Crown Prince Ji Yijiu escapes and will reign as King Ping of Zhou.

Around 755 BC, Aeschylus the King of Athens died after a reign of 23 years and was succeeded by Alcmeon. Greece colonizes other regions of the Mediterranean Sea and Black Sea. Rome is founded in 753 BC, and the Etruscan civilizationexpands in Italy.

Iron Age India enters the later Vedic period. Vedic ritual is annotated in many priestly schools in Brahmana commentaries, and the earliest Upanishads mark the beginning of Vedanta philosophy.

Around 730 BC, Osorkon IV succeeds Sheshonq IV as king of the Twenty-second dynasty of Egypt, and Piye succeeds his father Kashta as King of the Nubian kingdom of Napata.