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