950s BC

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Millennia:	[[1Template:Ordinal/th millennium BC\|1Template:Ordinal/th millennium BC]]
Centuries:	[[11Template:Ordinal/th century BC\|11Template:Ordinal/th century BC]] - [[10Template:Ordinal/th century BC\|10Template:Ordinal/th century BC]] - [[9Template:Ordinal/th century BC\|9Template:Ordinal/th century BC]]
Decades:	980s BC 970s BC 960s BC - 950s BC - 940s BC 930s BC 920s BC
Years:	959 BC 958 BC 957 BC 956 BC 955 BC 954 BC 953 BC 952 BC 951 BC 950 BC
Categories:	Births - Deaths - State leaders - Sovereign states Establishments - Disestablishments

Events and trends

959 BC — Psusennes II succeeds Siamun as king of Egypt.
957 BC — The reign of Mu Wang of the Zhou Dynasty ends.
952 BC — Thersippus, King of Athens dies after a reign of 41 years and is succeeded by his son Phorbas.
950 BC — Northern Egypt starts to be rules by Libyan pharaohs. The Libyans build cities and for the first time a sturdy urban life grows up in the Nile Delta.
c. 950 BC–800 BC — Earliest parts of Bible are written.