752 BC
# 752 BC

## Events

* Romulus, first king of Rome, celebrates the first Roman triumph after his victory over the Caeninenses, following the Rape of the Sabine Women. He celebrates a further triumph later in the year over the Antemnates.
* Rome's first colonies were established.
* Diocles of Messenia won the seventh Ancient Olympic Games.
* (or 745 BC) Menahem succeeds Shallum of Israel as king of the ancient Kingdom of Israel.
* Piye succeeds Kashta as Kushite king, and conquers Egypt founding the Twenty-fifth Dynasty of Egypt.
* Visakhayupa succeeds Palaka as emperor of Magadha.

## Births

* Dionysius of Halicarnassus dates the foundation of Rome to 752 BC/2 AUC (traditional date: 21 April 753 BC): "Romulus, the first ruler of the city, began his reign in the first year of the seventh Olympiad, when Charops at Athens was in the first year of his ten-year term as archon."

## Deaths

* Zechariah of Israel, king of the northern Israelite Kingdom of Israel, and son of Jeroboam II.
* Alara of Nubia, king of Kush.
