9th century BCE - Definition and Overview

(10th century BC - 9th century BC - 8th century BC - other centuries)

(900s BC - 890s BC - 880s BC - 870s BC - 860s BC - 850s BC - 840s BC - 830s BC - 820s BC - 810s BC - 800s BC - other decades)

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

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)

Significant persons

• Shalmaneser III, king of Assyria (858 - 824 BC)
• Homer, author of the Iliad and Odyssey (exact dates unknown)

Inventions, discoveries, introductions