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870s BC
This
article
concerns
the period
879
BC
–
870
BC
.
Events and
trends
879 BC—Death of
Zhou yi wang
,
King of
the Zhou
Dynasty of China
.
879 BC—Kalhu is
dedicated
. Some historians say that
Assurnasirpal II
gives
a
banquet
for 69,574
persons
to celebrate it.
878 BC—Zhou
li
wang becomes King of the
Zhou Dynasty
of
China
.
877 BC—Parshvanatha,
the 23rd
Tirthankara
of
Jainism
was born in
India
.
874 BC—Shoshenq
II
succeeds
Takelot I
as
king of
the
Twenty-second dynasty of Egypt
.
874 BC—Ahab becomes king of
Israel
.
872 BC—An exceptionally high flood of the
Nile
covers the
floors
of the
Temple of Luxor
.
872 BC—Osorkon II succeeds
Shoshenq II
as king of the Twenty-second dynasty of
Egypt
.
