Time Line of Phoenicia

• Byblos founded ( c. 3000 B.C. )
• Phoenician city of Tyre founded ( c. 2750 B.C. )

• Canaan vying for control with the Phoenician cities of Tyre and Sidon (c. 1100-700 B.C.)
• Phoenicia founded (c. 1000 B.C.)
• Phoenician alphabet developed (c. 1000 B.C.)
• King Hiram I rules Tyre (969-936 B.C.)

• Phoenician city of Carthage founded ( 878 B.C. )

• Phoenicians settle in Cyprus (c. 800 B.C.)
• Assyrian incursions of Phoenicia begin (774 B.C.)
• Assyria invades Phoenicia (738 B.C.)
• Tyre falls to Tiglath-Pileser III of Assyria (734 B.C.)
• Assyrians invade and conquer most of Phoenicia (701 B.C.)

• first recorded circumnavigation of Africa by Phoenicians (c. 672 B.C.)

• Nebuchadnezzar II of Babylonia conquers Phoenicia (586 B.C.)
• Cyrus the Great absorbs Phoenicia into the Persian Empire (539 B.C.)

• Tyre falls to Alexander the Great (332 B.C.)