720s BC : 727 BC

Centuries: 9th century BC - 8th century BC - 7th century BC

Decades: 770s BC 760s BC 750s BC 740s BC 730s BC - 720s BC - 710s BC 700s BC 690s BC 680s BC 670s BC

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Events and Trends

• 727 BC - Babylonia makes itself independent of Assyria
• 724 BC - The Assyrians start a four-year siege of Tyre
• 724 BC - The diaulos footrace introduced at the Olympics.
• 723 BC - Israel conquered by Assyria
• 723 BC - Spring and Autumn Period of China's history begins as King Zhou ping wang[?] of the Zhou Dynasty reigns in name only.
• 720 BC - End of the Assyrian siege of Tyre

Significant People

• 729 BC - Tiglath-Pileser III officially crowned sovereign of Asia in Babylon
• 729 BC - Hezekiah succeeds Ahaz as king of Judah (or 726 BC)
• 729 BC - Luli succeeds Mattan II[?] as king of Tyre
• 728 BC - Death of Tiglath-Pileser III, king of Assyria (or 727 BC)
• 727 BC - Shalmaneser III becomes king of Assyria (dies 723 BC)
• 724 BC - Ahaz, king of Judah dies (740 BC-726 BC)
• 723 BC - Sargon becomes king of Assyria
• 720 BC - Death of Zhou ping wang[?], King of the Zhou Dynasty of China.

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The swiftness was coming on, made it necessary to seek for an anchorage; this was done necessary to have full sail, it was feared that some of the rigging 20-lb. lead, and a line of sixty brazas could not reach bottom, either realized that the current was carrying the lead and it did not strike of the bay and a quarter of a mile from the shore, when the wind the mouth, an anchor was thrown overboard, after having made it fast to lost. It was found that the anchor held. Two more anchors were made the current ceased, the vessel was found to be in twenty-two brazas, the day before, came to the vessel. The pilot was asked why he had not entrance of the bay, answered that at 6 p. m. he had seen a suitable attempted to go out the whirlpools and eddies caused by the current were him back towards the shore, so that he determined to stay in the harbor out, made him wait until 4 a. m., when he again attempted to go out, the packet-boat, and putting the bow towards her he had no difficulty in to the west-northwest. He found it useless, because, though it had shelter then, he did not enter that harbor, as he was afraid of.