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{{Short description|Decade}}
This article concerns the period '''849 BC – 840 BC'''.
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==Events and trends==
* 842 BC—[[Shalmaneser III]] devastates the territory of [[Damascus]]; [[Kingdom of Israel (Samaria)|Israel]] and the [[Phoenicia]]n cities send tribute.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Lamb |first=David T. |title=Righteous Jehu and his evil heirs : the Deuteronomist's negative perspective on dynastic succession |date=2007 |publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=978-0-19-923147-8 |location=Oxford |oclc=166625005}}</ref>
* 841 BC—The {{ill|Compatriots Rebellion|zh|国人暴动}} in [[Western Zhou dynasty]]. The Chinese people riot against [[King Li of Zhou]], who is then sent to exile at a place called Zhi. The [[Gonghe Regency]], begins. ''[[Records of the Grand Historian]]'' (compiled by historian [[Sima Qian]] by [[91 BC]]) regards this year as the first year of consecutive annual dating of [[Chinese history]]. Any earlier events in Chinese history cannot be confidently dated by historians.<ref>{{citation
  | title = Building the chronology of early Chinese history
  | given = Yun Kuen | surname = Lee
  | journal = [[Asian Perspectives]]
  | volume = 41 | issue = 1 | pages = 15–42 | year = 2002a
  | url = http://scholarspace.manoa.hawaii.edu/handle/10125/17161
  | doi = 10.1353/asi.2002.0006
  | postscript = .
  | hdl = 10125/17161
  | s2cid = 67818363 | hdl-access = free
  }}</ref>
* 841 BC—The First [[Assyrian people|Assyrian]] Invasion of [[Israel]].<ref>{{cite journal|title=841 B. C.: The First Assyrian Invasion of Israel|author=Michael C. Astour|journal=Journal of the American Oriental Society|volume=91|issue=3|year=1971|pages=383–389|doi=10.2307/600256 |jstor=600256 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/600256|url-access=subscription}}</ref>

==Deaths==
* 849 BC—[[Elijah]], ascends to [[heaven]] in a whirlwind. 
* 845 BC—[[Pherecles]], [[Kings of Athens|King of Athens]], dies after a reign of 19 years and is succeeded by his son [[Ariphron]].
* 841 BC—[[Marquis Jing of Jin]], the sixth ruler of the [[Jin (Chinese state)|state of Jin]].
* 841 BC—[[Baal-Eser II]], king of [[Tyre, Lebanon|Tyre]].

== References ==
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