1000s BC

Events and trends

• 1006 BC—David becomes king of the ancient Israelites (traditional date).
• 1002 BC—Death of Zhou zhao wang, King of the Zhou Dynasty of China.
• 1001 BC—Zhou mo wang becomes King of the Zhou Dynasty of China.
• Earliest evidence of farming in the Kenya highlands.
• c. 1000 BC—Iron Age starts.
• c. 1000 BC—Latins come to Italy from the Danube region.
• c. 1000 BC—Archaeological evidence obtained from inscriptions excavated in 2005 dates the Tamil language, a classical language spoken in India.
• c. 1000 BC—Assyrians started to conquer neighbouring regions.
• 1000 BC—World population: 50,000,000^[1]
• 1000 BC—Priene, Western Turkey is founded.
• c. 1000 BC—Hungarian separates from its closest linguistic relatives, the Ob-Ugric languages.
• c. 1000 BC—Saul.
• c. 1000 BC—Ancient Iranian peoples enter Persia.
• c. 1000 BC—Iron is introduced in Ancient India.
• c. 1000 BC—Villanovans occupy the northern and western Italy.
• Phoenician alphabet is invented.
• c. 1000 BC - Rice is cultivated in Ancient Japan.
• 1000 BC - Early Horizon period starts in the Andes.
• c. 1000 BC - Chavin culture starts in the Andes.
• c. 1000 BC - Paracas culture starts in the Andes.
• c. 1000 BC—Historical beginning of the peoples we later know as Illyrians^[2]

Significant people

• David, king of the ancient Israelites (1006 BC–965 BC)
• Zoroaster, ancient Iranian prophet (approximate date, estimates range from 1000 BC to 600 BC)

References

1. ^ an average of figures from different sources as listed at the US Census Bureau's Historical Estimates of World Population
2. ^ The Illyrians (The Peoples of Europe) by John Wilkes, ISBN 0-631-19807-5, 1996, p. 39: "... the other hand, the beginnings of the Iron Age around 1000 BC is held to coincide with the formation of the historical Illyrian peoples. ..."