Culture & IdeasThe 8th century BCE

Culture & Ideas in the 8th century BCE

One event in the Terralore archive falls in the 8th century BCE, tagged culture and ideas — art, language, science and learning. It keeps the sources it was verified against and links back to the chronicle it came from.

Events
1
Nations
1
Earliest
776 BCE
Latest
776 BCE

Every entry below is the same record, with the same sources, as the one on its nation’s chronicle.

  1. 776 BCE (traditional)Europe

    Greece

    Traditional first Olympic Games

    Greek tradition dated the first Olympic Games to 776 BCE at Olympia, a panhellenic religious festival that became a shared marker of Greek identity and a basis for dating.

    Era: Archaic and Classical Greece

    Sources: Ancient Greece · World History Encyclopedia