909–900 BC

Millennium:	1st millennium BC
Centuries:	11th century BC – 10th century BC – 9th century BC
Decades:	930s BC 920s BC 910s BC – 900s BC – 890s BC 880s BC 870s BC
Years:	909 BC 908 BC 907 BC 906 BC 905 BC 904 BC 903 BC 902 BC 901 BC 900 BC
Categories:	Births – Deaths – Architecture Establishments – Disestablishments

Events and trends

909 BC—Zhou xiao wang becomes King of the Zhou Dynasty of China.
909 BC—Jeroboam, the first king of the northern Hebrew kingdom of Israel, dies and is succeeded by his son Nadab.
c. 900 BC—the Villanovan culture emerges in northern Italy (Villanovan II).
900 BC—Kingdom of Kush.
c. 900 BC—Greek Dark Ages end.
c. 900 BC—Geometric period of vases starts in Ancient Greece.
c. 900 BC—The inhabitants of the Aegean region establish small, distinct groups in valleys, on coastal plains and on islands, living in self-sufficient, close-knit communities but all speaking some form of the same language.
c. 900 BC—San Lorenzo, the center of early Olmec culture, is destroyed, probably by migrating peoples from the north, and power passes to La Venta in Tabasco.