[edit] Events and trends - 753 BC—The city of Rome and the Roman Kingdom is founded and ruled by the first king (possibly Etruscan) Romulus (according to tradition). Beginning of the Roman 'Ab urbe condita' calendar. Rome adopts Etruscan alphabet, which the Etruscans themselves had adopted from the Greeks. Set by Varro, this was the most common date used.
- 752 BC—Romulus, first king of Rome, celebrates the first Roman triumph after his victory over the Caeninenses, following the Rape of the Sabine Women.
- c. 750 BC—Man and Centaur, perhaps from Olympia, is made. It is now at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
- c. 750 BC—Age of colonisation begins.
- c. 750 BC—Greeks establish colonies in Italy and Sicily.
- c. 750 BC—First tyrants take their seats.
- c. 750 BC – 700 BC—Funerary Vase (Krater), from the Dipylon Cemetery, Athens, is made. Attributed to the Hirschfield workshop. It is now at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
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