{{Short description|Decade}} The '''920s BC''' is a decade that lasted from 929 BC to 920 BC. {{Decadebox BC|92}}
==Events and trends== * 928 BC — On the death of King Solomon, his son Rehoboam is unable to hold the tribes of Israel together, and the northern part secedes to become the kingdom of Israel, making Jeroboam its king. Rehoboam is left to rule the kingdom of Judah.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Widder |first1=Wendy L. |title=Old Testament Prophets: The Covenant Conscience of God's People |date=2026 |publisher=B&H Publishing Group |page=19 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dBvLEQAAQBAJ&newbks=0&printsec=frontcover&pg=PP19&dq=rehoboam+loses+kingdom+928&hl=en&source=newbks_fb&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=rehoboam%20loses%20kingdom%20928&f=false}}</ref> * 925 BC — Military conquest of Canaan by Shoshenq I.<ref name="KaiserWegner">{{cite book |last1=Kaiser |first1=Walter C. |last2=Wegner |first2=Paul D. |title=A History of Israel From the Bronze Age Through the Jewish Wars |date=20 November 2017 |publisher=B&H Publishing Group |isbn=9781433643170 |pages=827-828 |url=https://www.google.com/books/edition/A_History_of_Israel/dy9DDwAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=Shoshenq+I+canaan+925&pg=PT827&printsec=frontcover}}</ref> * 924 BC or 922 BC — Osorkon I succeeds his father Shoshenq I as king of Egypt.<ref name="KaiserWegner" /><ref>{{cite book |last1=Long |first1=Richard J. |title=The Excavations at Mut Al-Kharab II The Third Intermediate Period in the Western Desert of Egypt |date=3 December 2021 |publisher=Oxbow Books |isbn=9781789257168 |page=8 |url=https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Excavations_at_Mut_al_Kharab_II/ZThIEAAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=osorkon+i+shoshenq+922&pg=PA8&printsec=frontcover}}</ref> * 922 BC — Phorbas, Archon of Athens, dies after a reign of 30 years and is succeeded by his son Megacles.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Bohen |first1=Barbara |title=Kratos & Krater: Reconstructing an Athenian Protohistory |date=30 June 2017 |publisher=Archaeopress Publishing Limited |isbn=9781784916237 |page=63 |url=https://www.google.com/books/edition/Kratos_Krater_Reconstructing_an_Athenian/QkxmEAAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=phorbas+megacles+son+922&pg=PA63&printsec=frontcover}}</ref> * 920 BC — A transit of Venus occurs.<ref>{{cite web |title=Six Millennium Catalog of Venus Transits: 2000 BCE to 4000 CE |url=https://eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov/transit/catalog/VenusCatalog.html |website=NASA |access-date=29 March 2026}}</ref>
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