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| c. 1000 BC |
| | | Tyre and Sidon have by now replaced Byblos as the dominant cities within Phoenicia | |
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| c. 950 BC |
| | | Wood from the famous cedars of Lebanon is only one of the many luxury goods traded by the Phoenicians | |
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| -868 BC |
| | | Ashburbanipal II extracts tribute from the cities of Phoenicia, beginning a period of Assyrian domination of the region | |
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| -853 BC |
| | | Gindibu brings 1000 Arab warriors on camels to do battle at Karkar (the first known reference to Arabs as a distinct group) | |
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| c. -850 BC |
| | | Citium, in Cyprus, is the first of many Phoenician colonies in the Mediterranean | |
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| c. 600 BC |
| | | Phoenicians sail round the Cape of Good Hope and bring back the surprising news that the sun was seen to the north of them | |
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| 585 BC |
| | | The Babylonian king Nebuchadrezzar II begins a siege of Tyre which lasts for thirteen years before the city capitulates | |
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| 528 BC |
| | | The Phoenician cities, liberated from Babylonian rule, willingly accept inclusion in the Persian empire | |
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| 332 BC |
| | | Alexander moves south through Syria and Palestine, excluding the Persian fleet from their familiar harbours | |
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| c. 300 BC |
| | | Phoenicia is brought into the new Hellenistic empire, changing hands frequently between contending successors of Alexander | |
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