780s BC
Centuries: 9th century BC - 8th century BC - 7th century BC
Decades: 830s BC 820s BC 810s BC 800s BC 790s BC - 780s BC - 770s BC 760s BC 750s BC 740s BC 730s BC
Events and trends
- 789 BC - Nineveh destroyed
- 780 BC - The first historic solar eclipse is recorded in China.
- 783 BC - Shalmaneser IV succeeds his father Adad-nirari III as king of Assyria
- 782 BC - Death of Zhou xuan wang, King of the Zhou Dynasty of China.
- 781 BC - Zhou you wang becomes King of the Zhou Dynasty of China.