710. _Lycurgus_, brings the poems of _Homer_ out of _Asia_ into _Greece_.
708. _Lycurgus_, becomes tutor to _Charillus_ or _Charilaus_, the young King of _Sparta_. _Aristotle_ makes _Lycurgus_ as old as _Iphitus_, because his name was upon the Olympic Disc. But the Disc was one of the five games called the _Quinquertium_, and the _Quinquertium_ was first instituted upon the eighteenth Olympiad. _Socrates_ and _Thucydides_ made the institutions of _Lycurgus_ about 300 years older than the end of the _Peloponnesian_ war, that is, 705 years before _Christ_.
701. _Sabacon_, after a Reign of 50 years, relinquishes _Egypt_ to his son _Sevechus_ or _Sethon_, who becomes Priest of _Vulcan_, and neglects military affairs.
697. The _Corinthians_ begin first of any men to build ships with three orders of oars, called _Triremes_. Hitherto the _Greeks_ had used long vessels of fifty oars.
673. The _Jews_ conquered by _Asserhadon_, and _Manasseh_ carried captive to _Babylon_.
671. _Asserbadon_ invades _Egypt_. The government of _Egypt_ committed to twelve princes.
668. The western nations of _Syria_, _Phoenicia_ and _Egypt_, revolt from the _Assyrians_. _Asserhadon_ dies, and is succeeded by _Saosduchinus_. _Manasseh_ returns from Captivity.
658. _Phraortes_ Reigns in _Media_. The _Prytanes_ Reign in _Corinth_, expelling their Kings.
657. The _Corinthians_ overcome the _Corcyreans_ at sea: and this was the oldest sea fight.
655. _Psammiticus_ becomes King of all _Egypt_, by conquering the other eleven Kings with whom he had already reigned fifteen years: he reigned about 39 years more. Henceforward the _Ionians_ had access into _Egypt_; and thence came the _Ionian_ Philosophy, Astronomy and Geometry.
652. The first _Messenian_ war begins: it lasted twenty years.
647. _Charops_, the first decennial Archon of the _Athenians_. Some of these Archons might dye before the end of the ten years, and the remainder of the ten years be supplied by a new Archon. And hence the seven decennial Archons might not take up above forty or fifty years. _Saosduchinus_ King of _Assyria_ dies, and is succeeded by _Chyniladon_.
636. _Phraortes_> King of the _Medes_, is slain in a war against the _Assyrians_. _Astyages_ succeeds him.