752 BC

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.
• Rome's first colonies were established.
• Diocles of Messenia won the seventh Ancient Olympic Games.
• Menahem succeeds Shallum of Israel as king of the ancient Kingdom of Israel.
• 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 : "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."

  Deaths

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