General
Population: Perhaps 100 million*
- Entertainment: Iliad and Odyssey composed from oral traditions (725 BC)
- Deaths: Tiglath-Pileser III of Assyria (728 or 727 BC),
Shalmaneser V of Assyria (722 BC)
Africa
- Egypt: Ethiopian kings rule Egypt forming 25th (Nubian) dynasty 50 682 BC) (725 - 722 BC)
Asia
- China: Period of loose confederations (722 BC)
Middle East
- Assyria: Death of Tiglath-pileser who subjugated Syria and Philistia (728 or 727 BC)
Death of Shalmaneser V (722 BC)
Sargon II begins to reign - goes on to conquer Israel (721 BC)
- Babylon: Assyrian occupation begins (729 BC)
- Iran: Foundation of the kingdom of Media to 549 BC
- Israel: Shalmaneser V of Assyria carries may Israelites captive (724 - 723 BC)
End of Samarian rule of Israel with 10,000 dead (723-721 BC)
Sargon II of Assyria conquers Israel - ten tribes led captive (722, 721, or 720 BC)
- Samaria: Samaria captured by Assyria (723 BC)
Destruction by Sargon II of Assyria (722 BC)