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List of chronologies by period
List of centuries

B.C. began on the -1000 and ended on December 31 -1 in the proleptic Julian calendar.

Events
900-300: glacial maxima attested by the peatland of the Fernau glacier, with a retreat interval of about a century and a half.
800: The sub-atlantic thermal recession continues today. Significant increase in rainfall.
400-250 to 150: small Roman climate optimum.

Africa
1070-664: Third Egyptian Intermediate Period.

Around 900: foundation of the kingdom of Napata "second period" of the kingdom of Kush (after the kingdom of Kerma and before that of Meroe).

Around 900 -200: Nok culture in Nigeria. Earthenware (heads and busts).
Around 900-300: Iron work begins in sub-Saharan Africa, in the Termit massif in Niger (2900-2300 before the present) and in Taruga, on the Jos plateau in Nigeria (850-230). In Equatorial Africa, in Otoumbi (Gabon), blast furnaces are dated 700-450.
814: Traditional Carthage Foundation in Tunisia; The presence of a Phoenician settlement at the end of the site is confirmed by archaeology (the Salammbô Tophet). After the decline of Tyre, the city gained independence around -650 and took control of Phoenician possessions in the Mediterranean where it established a maritime empire that lasted until the end of the 19th century. The city is then organized according to a plan in checker and it has massive defenses. In -146, following the Punic Wars, Roman power destroyed it permanently. In -46, a new Roman colony was founded on the very site of Carthage.
800: start of occupation of the Dia Shoma site in the interior delta of Niger in Mali; The habitat, combined with the ceramic tradition of Tichitt, covers 19 hectares, before reducing to a temporary occupation over three hectares. Around 500 - 1000 C.E., it develops again to reach its peak between 1000 and 1600. The domestication of African rice (Oryza glaberrima) is attested between -800 and -700.
Around 800 -100: copper metallurgy is attested in the Agadez region of Azelik, Air. At the same time the Malachite deposits of Akjujt, Mauritania, were being exploited. The technique of lost wax moulding is known in Sinthiou Bara at .
Around 700-400: iron metallurgy attested to in the north and west of Lake Victoria, in western Tanzania (Kavirondo Gulf, Chobi, Nsongezi, and Buhaya sites) in Rwanda (Gaziva, 685±95) and Burundi (Mirama 530±85), characterized by urew ceramics and associated with Bantu expansion. Brick stoves are used to produce carbon-rich steel. In the east, pastors in the Grand Rift Valley continue to use stone tools for a millennium.
Around 700: Sudarabic populations settled