820s BC

Decade

This article concerns the period 829 BC – 820 BC.

Millennium
1st millennium BC
Centuries
  • 10th century BC
  • 9th century BC
  • 8th century BC
Decades
  • 840s BC
  • 830s BC
  • 820s BC
  • 810s BC
  • 800s BC
Years
  • 829 BC
  • 828 BC
  • 827 BC
  • 826 BC
  • 825 BC
  • 824 BC
  • 823 BC
  • 822 BC
  • 821 BC
  • 820 BC
Categories
  • Deaths
  • v
  • t
  • e

Events and trends

  • 828 BC/827 BC (14th year in the era of Gònghé)—King Xuan of Zhou becomes King of the Zhou Dynasty of China, ending almost two decades of the Gonghe Regency.
  • 828 BC—Xiong Yan is replaced by his son Xiong Shuang as Viscount of Chu.
  • 825 BC—Takelot II, king of Egypt, dies. Crown Prince Osorkon III and Shoshenq III, sons of Takelot, battle for the throne.
  • 825 BC/824 BC—Ariphron, King of Athens, dies after a reign of 20 years and is succeeded by his son Thespieus.
  • 825 BC—Dido, founder of Carthage flees Tyre after the death of Acerbas
  • 823 BC—Death of Shalmaneser III, king of Assyria. He is succeeded by his son Shamshi-Adad V.
  • 821 BC—Xiong Xun, youngest brother of Xiong Shuang, ascends the throne of Chu after defeating his surviving brothers Xiong Xue and Xiong Kan.[1]
  • 820 BC—Pygmalion ascends the throne of Tyre.

Significant people

References

  1. ^ Shim, Eun-kyung; Kim, Won-joong; Kim, Yun-ji (2020-04-30). "The review of multi-layered meanings of rancor through the retrograde narrative structure of "A Biography of WUZIXU in the Records of the Grand Historian"". Journal of Chinese Humanities. 74: 165–190. doi:10.35955/jch.2020.04.74.165. ISSN 1225-3499. S2CID 219669116.