1 mar 853 ano antes da era comum - Battle of Qarqar

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Battle of Qarqar (Karkar) revisited. Part Four: King Ahab unlikely at Qarqar, by Damien Mackey

The only evidence that places King Ahab of Israel at Qarqar in 853 BCE, comes from the Kurkh Stele of Shalmaneser III. This Stele finds no support in the Syrian record, is repudiated by the Biblical Chronologies and Narratives, and finds no corroboration in the Throne Base Inscription.
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The History Files, The Battle of Qarqar (Old Testament Dating Problems) by Wayne McCleese, 19 January 2018:

The usual dating for Ahab is 870-848 BC, making him a firmly-established ruler at the time of the battle. A fresh look at Biblical dating has been undertaken here, though, and this places Ahab around 918-899 BC. This means that he was dead some forty-five years before the battle.
In I Kings 20, Samaria under King Ahab defeated Ben-Hadad, king of Aram Damascus, twice in two years, as a prophet of God foretold him. It is argued here that this king of Aram Damascus was Ben-Hadad I, and the years were, approximately, 904 and 903 BC. [3]

Then, according to I Kings 22, three years passed without war. However, in the same chapter Ahab fell in battle at Ramoth-Gilead at the hands of the king of Aram (Ben-Hadad) which is assigned an approximate 'new' date here of 899 BC.

Apparently, about twelve or thirteen years later, there was another battle at Ramoth-Gilead, this one with Ahaziah of Judah and Joram of Samaria ranged against Hazael of Aram Damascus (the Damascene kings were also referred to as kings of Syria) (II Kings 8:25-29). Therefore, King Hazael would have reigned from at least the (Second) Battle of Ramoth-Gilead in the reigns of Ahaziah of Judah and Joram of Samaria (II Kings 8:25-29) and through the entire reign of Jehoahaz of Samaria (II Kings 13:22), probably for a period of at least forty-five years.

By using the same calculations, Hazael of Syria would be on the throne around 886-840 BC (instead of 842-798 BC), which would make him king of Syria at the time of the Battle of Qarqar, therefore allowing Shalmaneser III to refer to him as Hadad-ezer of Damascus.

This would also explain why Hazael (Hadad-ezer) named his son Ben-Hadad (II Kings 13:24), meaning 'son of Hadad'.

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Two Notes on the Monolith Inscription of Shalmaneser III from Kurkh, Tel Aviv 3, pp 89-106, 1976

The Kurkh monolith describes the events of Shalmaneser III's sixth reignal year (853 BC), when he clashed with a coalition of forces near the city of Qarqar, with each division of that coalition being led by its own king under the overall command of Hadadezer, king of Aram Damascus. The name and country of one of the kings has been translated as Ahab of Israel (Samaria).

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