800 BC

Events

 * End of the reign of Polydectes, king of Sparta from 830 BC.
 * Beginning of the reign of Eunomus, king of Sparta until 780 BC.
 * Emergence of the first communities settled in the Chincha Valley (Peru), pertaining to Paracas culture in the south coast of Peru.
 * End of Period IVB, Hasanlu is completely destroyed by a fire.
 * The Greek Colonization of the Mediterranean & Black Sea.
 * Archaic period of Greece ( - 500 BCE).
 * Homer of Greece writes his Iliad and Odyssey. ( - 700 BCE)
 * Assyrian army makes a use of the new technology by which iron can be hardened into steel suitable for weapons.
 * Earliest surviving sundial is in use in Egypt.
 * Beginning of Iron Age in Britain (until 43 AD).
 * Heraion Teikhos Pharmaceutical Production Center was built.

Deaths

 * Xiong Xun, monarch of the state of Chu during the Western Zhou Dynasty of ancient China.
 * Hasanlu Lovers, pair of human remains found at Teppe Hasanlu, possibly a couple.