Timeline Chronology: IX century BCE
Ancient history
900-700 BCE
- Scythian nomads spread across the steppe
- Urartu
900 BCE
- South Arabian kingdoms
- Hallstatt culture in Europe
- "Dorian invasion" or "Return of the Heracleidae"; so-called "first colonization"
- Villanovan culture in Italy
880 BCE
- Nimrud becomes capital of Assyria
853 BCE
- Shalmaneser III wins Battle of Qarar against coalition led by king of Damasco
850 BCE
- Earliest settlement built on the site of Rome in Italy
840 BCE
- Armenian kingdom of Urartu becomes powerfull
814 BCE
- Carthage founded in North Africa by the Phoenicians