Historical and Political Snippets in Time
The following entries mark events of historical or political significance
over the period 1000 B.C. through 901 B.C.
- -1000 to -901
- Phoenicians, established at Tyre, continue westward expansion
into Cyprus and western Mediterranean; found colonies on west
coast of Morocco; early link of Asiatic and Greek civilization
- Ionians, dispossessed from their homeland in Greece, found
12 cities on west coast of Asia Minor, among them Miletus
and Ephesus, which later unite in Ionian Confederacy
- Accession of David as king of united kingdom of Judah and
Israel (-1000 to -960), with Jerusalem as capital; returns
Ark of Covenant and Decalogue to city
- King David is succeeded by his son, Solomon (-960 to -925),
who build Yahweh Temple in Jerusalem; under his rule,
country reaches height of its civilization
- Political unification of Attica under rule of Athenian
kings
- Peking in existence
- 22nd dynasty of Egypt (-945 to -745) begins with Sheshonk
I (to -920)
- Division of Hebrew kingdom into Israel and Judah (-933)
- King Solomon dies (-933), succeeded by his son Rehoboam
I as king of Judah (to -917), and by Jeroboam I as king
of Israel (to -907)
- Sheshonk I of Egypt conquers and pillages Jerusalem
- Adadnirari II of Assyria makes peace with Babylon
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