752 BC explained

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.
• 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."

Deaths

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

Notes and References

1. [Livy]
2. Eusebius. Chronicon (English translation from Latin, original Greek lost) at Attalus.org.
3. Book: Thiele, Edwin . . New York . Macmillan . 1951 . 9780825438257 .