800s BC (decade)
Decade
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This article concerns the period 809 BC – 800 BC.
| Gregorian calendar | 800 BC DCCC BC |
| Ancient Egypt era | XXIII dynasty, 81 |
| Ancient Greek Olympiad (summer) | 24 before 1st Olympiad |
| Assyrian calendar | 3951 |
| Balinese saka calendar | N/A |
| Bengali calendar | −1393 – −1392 |
| Berber calendar | 151 |
| Buddhist calendar | −255 |
| Burmese calendar | −1437 |
| Byzantine calendar | 4709–4710 |
| Chinese calendar | 庚子年 (Metal Rat) 1898 or 1691 — to — 辛丑年 (Metal Ox) 1899 or 1692 |
| Coptic calendar | −1083 – −1082 |
| Discordian calendar | 367 |
| Ethiopian calendar | −807 – −806 |
| Hebrew calendar | 2961–2962 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | −743 – −742 |
| - Shaka Samvat | N/A |
| - Kali Yuga | 2301–2302 |
| Holocene calendar | 9201 |
| Iranian calendar | 1421 BP – 1420 BP |
| Islamic calendar | 1465 BH – 1464 BH |
| Javanese calendar | N/A |
| Julian calendar | N/A |
| Korean calendar | 1534 |
| Minguo calendar | 2711 before ROC 民前2711年 |
| Nanakshahi calendar | −2267 |
| Thai solar calendar | −257 – −256 |
| Tibetan calendar | ལྕགས་ཕོ་བྱི་བ་ལོ་ (male Iron-Rat) −673 or −1054 or −1826 — to — ལྕགས་མོ་གླང་ལོ་ (female Iron-Ox) −672 or −1053 or −1825 |
Events and trends
- 804 BC—Adad-nirari III of Assyria led a campaign into Syria and Palestine, reaching Gaza.[1]
- c. 800 BC—Greek Dark Ages end.
- c. 800 BC—Archaic period in Greece begins. (It ends in 480 BC with the invasion of Xerxes.)[citation needed]
- From c. 800 BC – The Upanishads are composed.
- c. 800 BC–700 BC—Pre-Etruscan period in Italy.
- Etruscan civilization.
- The Olmecs build pyramids.[2][3]
- 800 BC—End of the reign of Polydectes, king of Sparta from 830 BC.
- 800 BC—Beginning of the reign of Eunomus, king of Sparta until 780 BC.
- 800 BC—Emergence of the first communities settled in the Chincha Valley (Peru), pertaining to Paracas culture in the south coast of Peru.
- c. 800 BC—End of Period IVB, Hasanlu (Iran) is completely destroyed by a fire.[4]
- c. 800 BC—The Greek Colonization of the Mediterranean & Black Sea.[5]
- c. 800 BC—Homer of Greece writes his Iliad and Odyssey. ( - 700 BCE)[5]
- c. 800 BC—Assyrian army makes a use of the new technology by which iron can be hardened into steel suitable for weapons.[6]
- c. 800 BC—Earliest surviving sundial is in use in Egypt.[6]
- c. 800 BC—Beginning of Iron Age in Britain (until 43 AD).[7]
- c. 800 BC—pharmaceutical production area active at Heraion Teikhos, Thrace.[8]
Deaths
- 804 BC—Duke Wen of Qi, ruler of the state of Qi[9][10]
- 804 BC—Pedubastis I, pharaoh
- 800 BC—Xiong Xun, monarch of the state of Chu during the Western Zhou dynasty of ancient China.
- c. 800 BC—Hasanlu Lovers, pair of human remains found at Teppe Hasanlu, possibly a couple.[4]
Gallery
Greek colonisation in the Archaic period.
Western Zhou States Map.
