{{Short description|Decade}} {{Refimprove|date=August 2012}} This article concerns the period '''739 BC – 730 BC'''. {{Decadebox BC|73}}
==Events and trends== * 739 BC—Hiram II succeeds Ithobaal II as king of Tyre. * 738 BC—King Tiglath-Pileser III of Assyria invades Israel, forcing it to pay tribute. * 738 BC—The Biskupin settlement northeast of Poznań (Poland) is built. * 737 and 736 BC—King Tiglath-Pileser III of Assyria invades Iran, conquering the Medes and Persians and slaughtering, enslaving or deporting many.<ref>{{cite book|title=Ancient Iraq|url=https://archive.org/details/ancientiraq00roux|url-access=registration|first=Georges|last=Roux}}</ref> * 736 BC—Leochares of Messenia wins the stadion race at the eleventh Olympic Games. * 735 BC—Naxos in Sicily founded as a colony of Chalcis in Euboea. (traditional date) * 734 BC—Syracuse founded in Sicily as a joint colony of Corinth and Tenea, under the leadership of Archias of Corinth. * 733 BC—King Tiglath-Pileser III of Assyria conquers the Northern Kingdom of Israel (Samaria), and exiles its inhabitants. * 732 BC—King Tiglath-Pileser III of Assyria seizes Damascus, executes Rezin, King of the Arameans, and deports the Aramaean inhabitants to Kir of Moab.<ref>''2 Kings'' 16:9.</ref> (probable date) * 732 BC—King Tiglath-Pileser III of Assyria defeats the Arab queen Samsi in battle and forces her to pay tribute to him. * 732 BC—Hoshea becomes the last king of Israel. * 732 BC—Oxythemis of Cleonae/Coroneia wins the stadion race at the twelfth Olympic Games. * 730 BC—Northern Egypt ceases to be ruled by Libyan pharaohs. * 730 BC—Osorkon IV succeeds Pedubast II as king of the Twenty-second Dynasty of Egypt. (approximate date) * 730 BC—Piye succeeds his father, Kashta, as king of the Nubian kingdom of Napata. * 730 BC—Mattan II succeeds Hiram II as king of Tyre. * 730 BC—Leontini in Sicily is founded by colonists from Naxos.
==Significant People== * Xuan Jiang, Chinese Duchess.
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