752 BC

Millennium:	1st millennium BC
Centuries:	9th century BC – 8th century BC – 7th century BC
Decades:	780s BC  770s BC  760s BC  – 750s BC –  740s BC  730s BC  720s BC
Years:	755 BC 754 BC 753 BC – 752 BC – 751 BC 750 BC 749 BC

752 BC in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	752 BC
Ab urbe condita	2
Ancient Egypt era	XXV dynasty, 1
- Pharaoh	Piye, 1
Ancient Greek era	7th Olympiad (victor)¹
Assyrian calendar	3999
Bengali calendar	−1344
Berber calendar	199
Buddhist calendar	−207
Burmese calendar	−1389
Byzantine calendar	4757–4758
Chinese calendar	戊子年 (Earth Rat) 1945 or 1885     — to — 己丑年 (Earth Ox) 1946 or 1886
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	2350–2351
Holocene calendar	9249
Iranian calendar	1373 BP – 1372 BP
Islamic calendar	1415 BH – 1414 BH
Julian calendar	N/A
Korean calendar	1582
Minguo calendar	2663 before ROC 民前2663年
Thai solar calendar	−209 – −208

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