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| c. 3000 BC |
| | | The people known as Phoenicians are in the region of modern Lebanon from around this date | |
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| c. 2800 BC |
| | | Byblos (modern Jbeil) evolves to become the most important seaport and city of Phoenicia | |
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| c. 2500 BC |
| | | Trade lnks, probably by sea in Phoenician ships from Byblos, are established between Egypt and Phoenicia | |
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| c. 1500 BC |
| | | The first steps towards a phonetic alphabet are taken in Phoenicia | |
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| c. 1345 BC |
| | | The Amarna tablets contain extensive correspondence between the Akhenaten government in Egypt and subject princes in Phoenicia | |
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| c. 1100 BC |
| | | The Phoenicians develop the war galley, with a sharp battering ram in the bow | |
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| c. 1100 BC |
| | | Phoenician sailors use the pole star for navigational purposes | |
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| c. 1000 BC |
| | | The abacus is used as an everyday method of calculation by Phoenicians and Babylonians | |
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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. 970 BC |
| | | Hiram, the Phoenician king of Tyre, is an enthusiastic trading partner of King David in Jerusalem, and later of Solomon | |
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