9th century BC

Centuries:	10th century BC - 9th century BC - 8th century BC
Decades:	890s BC 880s 870s 860s 850s 840s 830s 820s 810s 800s BC

(2nd millennium BC - 1st millennium BC - 1st millennium)

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Contents 1 Overview 2 Events 3 Significant persons 4 Inventions, discoveries, introductions

Overview

Events

• Kingdom of Kush (900 BC)
• Battle of Karkar (853 BC) - An indecisive engagement between Assyrian king Shalmaneser II and a military alliance of the king of Damascus and lesser powers including the prince of Tyre
• Carthage founded by Phoenicians (813 BC)
• Beginning of the Iron Age in Central Europe, spread of the Proto-Celtic Hallstatt culture

Significant persons

• Shalmaneser III, king of Assyria (858 - 824 BC)
• Homer, author of the Iliad and Odyssey (exact dates unknown)
• Adena culture appears in present day Northeast U.S.A.

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