840s BC
This article concerns the period 849 BC – 840 BC.
| Millennium: | 1st millennium BC |
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Events and trends
- 845 BC—Pherecles, King of Athens, dies after a reign of 19 years and is succeeded by his son Ariphron.
- 842 BC—Shalmaneser III devastates the territory of Damascus; Israel and the Phoenician cities send tribute.
- 841 BC—Exile of King Li of the Zhou Dynasty of Ancient China, and the Gonghe Regency, began. Records of the Grand Historian (compiled by historian Sima Qian by 91 BC) regards this year as the first year of consecutive annual dating of Chinese history.
Significant people
gollark: Just use all the memory as a stack, silly.
gollark: ↑ GAZE upon my excellent assembly language.
gollark: ```mipsasm!PAD E0LOOP:re 8 RI # read target location from arbitrary side into bufferadd RJ RI !1mez RJ I !0 # if target location is 255, jump to 0 (normal thing start)re 8 RJ # read data into other bufferidm RI RJ # transfer data into specified locationmov I !LOOP # unconditional jump back to startRI: ! 0RJ: ! 0```
gollark: Nodes which are newly powered on accept a simple* protocol to write their memory and boot them into newly loaded code.
gollark: I made an infinite replicator thing also. It's very slow.
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