Founding of Rome
By legend, Romulus plants the seed of a future empire
Roman tradition holds that Romulus founded the city on the Palatine Hill on 21 April 753 BC. Romans counted years 'from the founding of the City', and the small settlement grew into the centre of a vast empire.
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The Olympic Games are older than Rome: the first were held in 776 BC, and by tradition the city was founded only 23 years later.
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Middle East
- 763 BC Assyrian eclipse — 10 years earlier
Alive at the time
- Piye (aged 17)