9th century BC

(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