720 BC

Millennium:	1st millennium BC
Centuries:	9th century BC – 8th century BC – 7th century BC
Decades:	750s BC  740s BC  730s BC  – 720s BC –  710s BC  700s BC  690s BC
Years:	723 BC 722 BC 721 BC – 720 BC – 719 BC 718 BC 717 BC

720 BC in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	720 BC
Ab urbe condita	34
Ancient Egypt era	XXV dynasty, 33
- Pharaoh	Shabaka, 2
Ancient Greek era	15th Olympiad (victor)¹
Assyrian calendar	4031
Bengali calendar	−1312
Berber calendar	231
Buddhist calendar	−175
Burmese calendar	−1357
Byzantine calendar	4789–4790
Chinese calendar	庚申年 (Metal Monkey) 1977 or 1917     — to — 辛酉年 (Metal Rooster) 1978 or 1918
Coptic calendar	−1003 – −1002
Discordian calendar	447
Ethiopian calendar	−727 – −726
Hebrew calendar	3041–3042
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	−663 – −662
- Shaka Samvat	N/A
- Kali Yuga	2382–2383
Holocene calendar	9281
Iranian calendar	1341 BP – 1340 BP
Islamic calendar	1382 BH – 1381 BH
Julian calendar	N/A
Korean calendar	1614
Minguo calendar	2631 before ROC 民前2631年
Thai solar calendar	−177 – −176

Events

• End of the Assyrian siege of Tyre.
• The "dolichos" footrace introduced at the Olympics.

Deaths

• Zhou ping wang, King of the Zhou Dynasty of China.

References