The 800s BC
16 sourced entries across 2 years, inside the 9th century BC. Each year below opens its own page; the lines under it are that year’s highest-ranked entries.
804 BCE2 entries
- 804 BC—Adad-nirari III of Assyria led a campaign into Syria and Palestine, reaching Gaza.
800 BCE14 entries
- c. 800 BC—Archaic period in Greece begins. (It ends in 480 BC with the invasion of Xerxes.)
- c. 800 BC—Assyrian army makes a use of the new technology by which iron can be hardened into steel suitable for weapons.
- c. 800 BC—Homer of Greece writes his Iliad and Odyssey. ( - 700 BCE)