Byblos: All Data
Byblos is a city in Lebanon. This page covers its chronology of mentions across 5,500 years of history, including capitals, battles, events and subdivisions. Part of Phersu Atlas.
1. Lists and Timelines
Byblos: Chronology of Mentions
Note: For polities of antiquity, the listed capital or subdivision capital may also represent one or several of the most important cities of the region.
1229 BC
Capital of Byblos
840 BC
Mentioned in Event: Campaigns of Shalmaneser III
840 BC
Capital of Byblos (Assyria)
670 BC
Subdivision Capital of the Province of Biblos, part of Assyrian Empire
608 BC
Capital of Byblos (Neo-Babylonian Empire)
318 BC
Mentioned in Event: Second War of the Diadochi
316 BC
Mentioned in Event: Second War of the Diadochi
315 BC
Mentioned in Event: Consolidation of the borders after the Second War of the Diadochi
311 BC
Mentioned in Event: Third War of the Diadochi
301 BC
Mentioned in Event: Fourth War of the Diadochi
270 BC
Mentioned in Event: First Syrian War
218 BC
Mentioned in Event: Invasion of Phoenicia
82 BC
Mentioned in Event: Armenian Occupation of Syria
62 BC
Mentioned in Event: Restoration of the Seleucids
42 BC
Mentioned in Event: Liberators' Civil War
40 BC
Mentioned in Event: Persian Invasion (Antony's Atropatene campaign)
39 BC
Mentioned in Event: Roman Counterattack
193 AD
Mentioned in Event: Year of the Five Emperors
194 AD
Mentioned in Event: Year of the Five Emperors
270 AD
Mentioned in Event: Secession of the Kingdom of Palmyra
274 AD
Mentioned in Event: Reconquest of the Kingdom of Palmyra
286 AD
Mentioned in Event: Early Tetrarchic Period
306 AD
Mentioned in Event: Civil wars of the Tetrarchy
314 AD
Mentioned in Event: Civil wars of the Tetrarchy
325 AD
Mentioned in Event: Civil wars of the Tetrarchy
337 AD
Mentioned in Event: Division of the Empire among the sons of Constantine the Great
353 AD
Mentioned in Event: Roman civil war of 350-353
395 AD
Mentioned in Event: Definitive Division of the Roman Empire
976 AD
Mentioned in Event: Byzantine conquest of Damascus, Tiberiade, Nazareth, Acri and Caesarea