| 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.
Significant people
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