Later monarchs whose inscriptions have appeared on the high city include Shalmaneser I and Tiglath-Pileser I, both of whom were active builders in Assur ( Ashur ); the former had founded Calah ( Nimrud ).

* 1274 BC — Shalmaneser I becomes King of the Assyrian Empire.

In 1274 BC Shalmaneser I ascended the throne, a powerful warrior king, he annexed territories in Syria and Canaan previously under Egyptian or Hittite influence, and the growing power of Assyria was perhaps the reason why these two states made peace with one another.

King Shalmaneser I, pouring out Dust of a Conquered City in front of an Assyrian Temple after returning victorious.

Shalmaneser I also claimed to have blinded 14, 400 enemy prisoners in one eye.

The god " Adad " is called on a stele of the Assyrian king Shalmaneser I " the god of Aleppo ".

The Assyrians had not given up their claim on Mitanni, and Shalmaneser I in the 13th century BC annexed the kingdom.

In the reign of Shalmaneser I ( 1270s – 1240s ) King Shattuara of Mitanni, a son or nephew of Wasahatta, rebelled against the Assyrian yoke with the help of the Hittites and the nomadic Ahlamu ( Arameans ) around 1250 BC.

Nevertheless, Shalmaneser I won a crushing victory for Assyria over the Hittites and Mitanni.

Reliefs discovered in the ancient ruins of Nimrud ( the ancient Assyrian city founded by king Shalmaneser I during the 13th century BC ) depict for the first time riders wearing plated-mail shirts composed of metal scales, presumably deployed to provide the Assyrians with a tactical advantage over the unprotected mounted archers of their nomadic enemies, primarily the Aramaeans, Mushki, North Arabian tribes and the Babylonians.

The Ahlamû (= wanderers ) are first mentioned in the el-Amarna letters alluding to the king of Babylon ; the presence of the Ahlamû are also attested in Assyria, Nippur and even at Dilmun ( Bahrain ); Shalmaneser I ( 1274-1245 BC ) defeated the Shattuara, King of Mitanni and his Hittite and Ahlamû mercenaries are mentioned in the Jazirah.

* Shalmaneser I ( 1274 BC – 1245 BC or 1265 BC-1235 BC )

Some scholars link changes in pottery forms to cultural contact with Assyria, this being a period of expansion for the Middle Assyrian kingdom, when such kings as Adad-nirari I ( 1295-1264 BC ), Shalmaneser I ( 1263-1234 BC ), and Tukulti-Ninurta I ( 1233-1197 BC ) were conducting campaigns into the Zagros mountains to the south.

He succeeded Shalmaneser I, his father, as king and won a major victory against the Hittites at the Battle of Nihriya in the first half of his reign.

This could explain why Jehu is offering tribute to Shalmaneser III on his Black Obelisk ; Jehu was encouraging the enemy of the Arameans to be his friend.

Stone stelae, votive offerings, or ones probably commemmorating victories and showing feasts, are also found from temples, which unlike more official ones lack inscriptions that would explain them ; the fragmentary Stele of the Vultures is an early example of the inscribed type, and the Assyrian Black Obelisk of Shalmaneser III a large and solid late one.

* 842 BC: Shalmaneser III devastates the territory of Damascus ; Kingdom of Israel and the Phoenician cities send tribute.

* 842 BC — Shalmaneser III devastates the territory of Damascus ; Israel and the Phoenician cities send tribute.

Shalmaneser again marched against Samaria, which, after a siege of three years, was taken ( 2 Kings 17: 3-5 ; 18: 9 ) by Sargon.

Civil war continued for two years ; but the rebellion was at last crushed by Shamshi-Adad V, another son of Shalmaneser.

His inscriptions mention the conquest of nine fortified temples ; 180 Hurrian cities were " turned into rubble mounds ", and Shalmaneser "… slaughtered like sheep the armies of the Hittites and the Ahlamu his allies …".

; 722 BCE: The Assyrians led by Shalmaneser conquered the ( Northern ) Kingdom of Israel and sent the Israelites into captivity at Khorasan.

Shalmaneser V ( Akkadian: ; ; Salamanassar ; ) was king of Assyria from 727 to 722 BC.

The account in states that Shalmaneser arrested Hoshea, then laid siege to Samaria ; some scholars explain that Shalmaneser must have summoned Hoshea to his court to explain the missing tribute, which resulted in the imprisonment of the king of Israel, and the Assyrian army sent into his land.

Shalmaneser III's ( 859 – 824 BC ) Kurkh Monolith names King Ahab.

The Battle of Qarqar is mentioned in extra-biblical records, and was perhaps at Apamea where Shalmaneser III of Assyria fought a great confederation of princes from Cilicia, Northern Syria, Israel, Ammon, and the tribes of the Syrian desert ( 853 BC ), including Ahab ( A-ha-ab-bu < sup > mat </ sup >) ( Adad -' idri ).

* The Black Obelisk of Shalmaneser III ( 858-824 BC )

File: Jehu-on-Obelisk-of-Shalmaneser. jpg | Room 6-Depiction of the hypocrite, Jehu, King of Israel on the Black Obelisk of Shalmaneser III, Nimrud, circa 827 BC

Marduk-apla-iddina II ( the Biblical Merodach-Baladan ) of Bit-Yâkin, allied himself with the powerful Elamite kingdom and briefly seized control of Babylon in 721 BC after the death of the Assyrian king Shalmaneser V who had ruled Babylon directly from Nineveh.

Soon after this Shalmaneser V determined wholly to subdue the kingdom of Israel, Samaria was taken and destroyed ( 722 BC ).

Most threatening, however, was the ascendancy of Assyria, which was beginning to expand westward from Mesopotamia: the Battle of Qarqar ( 853 BC ), which pitted Shalmaneser III of Assyria against a coalition of local kings, including Ahab, was the first clash between Assyria and Israel.

* 783 BC: Shalmaneser IV succeeds his father Adad-nirari III as king of Assyria.

* 773 BC: Ashur-Dan III succeeds his brother Shalmaneser IV as king of Assyria.

* 723 BC — Shalmaneser V, king of Assyria, dies.

* 723 BC — Sargon succeeds Shalmaneser V as king of Assyria.

* 865 BC: Kar Kalmaneser was conquered by the Assyrian king Shalmaneser III.

* 858 BC: Shalmaneser III succeeds Ashurnasirpal II as king of Assyria.

* 854 / 3 BC: Battle of Karkar — An indecisive engagement between Assyrian king Shalmaneser III and a military alliance of the king of Damascus and lesser powers including the prince of Tyre.

* 836 BC: Shalmaneser III of Assyria leads an expedition against the Tabareni.

* 823 BC: Death of Shalmaneser III, king of Assyria.

* Shalmaneser III, king of Assyria ( 858 – 824 BC )

* 1031 BC — Shalmaneser II becomes King of Assyria

* 725 BC — Shalmaneser V starts a 3 year siege of Israel

* 727 BC — Shalmaneser V becomes king of Assyria ( dies 723 BC ).

* 723 BC — Shalmaneser V, king of Assyria, dies.