# 760s BC

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This article concerns the period **769 BC – 760 BC**.

## Events and trends

Main article: [Assyrian eclipse](/source/Assyrian_eclipse)

- 763 BC—[June 15](/source/June_15)—A [solar eclipse](/source/Solar_eclipse) at this date (in month [Sivan](/source/Sivan)) is used to fix the [chronology of the Ancient Near East](/source/Chronology_of_the_Ancient_Near_East).[1]

- Amaziah, king of Judah, dies and is succeeded by his son Uzziah.

## Significant People

- [Argishtis I of Urartu](/source/Argishtis_I_of_Urartu) (r. 786-764 BC)[2]
- [Amaziah of Judah](/source/Amaziah_of_Judah) (co-ruled Judah with Uzziah c. 792-768 BC, according to [Edwin R. Thiele](/source/Edwin_R._Thiele))
- [Archilaus](/source/Archilaus_of_Sparta), [king of Sparta](/source/King_of_Sparta)
- [Marduk-apla-usur](/source/Marduk-apla-usur), king of Babylon (r. c. 780-769 BC)[3]
- [Eriba-Marduk](/source/Eriba-Marduk), king of Babylon (r. c. 769-761 BC)[4]
- [Rivallo](/source/Rivallo) (legendary king of the [Britons](/source/Britons_(historic)))
- [Alara of Nubia](/source/Alara_of_Nubia), King of Kuch (r. 795-c. 765 BC
- [Uzziah](/source/Uzziah), king of Judah (ruled Judah solely until c. 751 BC)

## References

1. Safford, Truman Henry (1899-04-28). ["On the Total Solar Eclipse of May 28, 1900"](http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.9.226.615). *Science*. **9** (226): 615–616. [doi:10.1126/science.9.226.615](https://doi.org/10.1126/science.9.226.615). [ISSN 0036-8075](https://www.worldcat.org/issn/0036-8075). [PMID 17774828](https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/17774828)

1. Burney, Charles (2004). *Historical dictionary of the Hittites*. Lanham, Md.: Scarecrow Press. ISBN 978-0-8108-6564-8. [OCLC 307478876](https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/307478876)

1. Chmiel, Jerzy (1999-09-30). "90 lat Pontificium Institutum Biblicum w Rzymie". *Ruch Biblijny i Liturgiczny*. **52** (3): 268. [doi:10.21906/rbl.2261](https://doi.org/10.21906/rbl.2261). [ISSN 2391-8497](https://www.worldcat.org/issn/2391-8497)

1. ["Kassite Babylonia"](http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781315879895-32), *The Ancient Near East*, Routledge, 2013-12-04, pp. 388–402, [doi:10.4324/9781315879895-32](https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315879895-32). ISBN 978-1-315-87989-5, retrieved 2022-07-20

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