The 10th century BC

20 sourced entries across 19 documented years, grouped into 0 decades. A century here runs 1900–1999 rather than 1901–2000, so its decades sit inside it exactly.

Decades

    A few of the years

    • 984 BCE984 BC — Osorkon the Elder succeeds Amenemope as king of Egypt.
    • 980 BCEc. 980 BC — The kingdom of Dʿmt is founded in Eritrea and northern Ethiopia.
    • 959 BCE959 BC: Psusennes II succeeds Siamun as king of Egypt.
    • 952 BCE952 BC—Thersippus, King of Athens dies after a reign of 41 years and is succeeded by his son Phorbas.
    • 946 BCE946 BC—Zhou gong wang becomes king of the Zhou dynasty of China.
    • 940 BCE940 BC—The Temple of Solomon was finished being built.
    • 931 BCE931 BC—Solomon dies in Jerusalem. The country splits into two kingdoms: Israel (including the cities of Shechem and Samaria) in the north and Judah (containing Jerusalem) in the south.
    • 925 BCE925 BC — Military conquest of Canaan by Shoshenq I.