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2750 BCE: The city of Tyre is founded.
1200 BCE - 800 BCE: First wave of Phoenician colonization where largely trading-posts are founded throughout the Mediterranean.
1100 BCE - 725 BCE: Decline of Byblos as the sister city of Tyre rises in prominence.
1000 BCE: Height of Tyre's power.
969 BCE - 936 BCE: Hiram I reigns as king of Tyre.
935 BCE - 919 BCE: Baal-eser I reigns as king of Tyre.
918 BCE - 910 BCE: Abdastrato reigns as king of Tyre.
909 BCE - 898 BCE: Methustratos reigns as king of Tyre.
897 BCE - 889 BCE: Astharymos reigns as king of Tyre.
888 BCE: Phelles reigns as king of Tyre.
887 BCE - 856 BCE: Ithobaal I reigns as king of Tyre.
855 BCE - 830 BCE: Baal-asor II reigns as king of Tyre.
829 BCE - 821 BCE: Mattan II rules as king of Tyre.
820 BCE - 774 BCE: Pygmalion rules as king of Tyre.
814 BCE: Traditional founding date for the Phoenician colony of Carthage by Tyre.
800 BCE - 600 BCE: Second stage of Phoenician colonization where trading-posts become full colonies throughout the Mediterranean.
750 BCE - 740 BCE: Ithobaal II reigns as king of Tyre.
739 BCE - 730 BCE: Hiram II reigns as king of Tyre.
730 BCE - 729 BCE: Mattan II rules as king of Tyre.
729 BCE - 694 BCE: Elulaios rules as king of Tyre.
680 BCE - 640 BCE: Baal I reigns as king of Tyre.
586 BCE - 572 BCE: Nebuchadnezzar II of Babylon besieges Tyre, unsuccessfully.
585 BCE: Nebuchadnezzar's armies destroy the Phoenician settlement at Tel Kabri.
332 BCE: Conquest of the Levant by Alexander the Great who destroys Tyre.
332 BCE: Alexander the Great besieges and conquers Tyre.
301 BCE - 195 BCE: Tyre, as all other Phoenician cities, belongs to the Ptolemies, rulers of hellenistic Egypt.
195 BCE: After the battle at Panion, the Seleucids finally take the rule of Phoenicia from the Ptolemies. Tyre and the other Phoenician cities will remain in the Seleucid power until the Roman conquest of Syria.
195 BCE: Facing the threat of being handed to the Romans after the Second Punic War, Hannibal flees to the Seleucid court of Antiochus III and becomes his advisor.
64 BCE: Tyre becomes a Roman colony.