1000s BC (decade)
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| Millennium: | 2nd millennium BC |
| Centuries: | 12th century BC – 11th century BC – 10th century BC |
| Decades: | 1030s BC 1020s BC 1010s BC – 1000s BC – 990s BC 980s BC 970s BC |
| Years: | 1009 BC 1008 BC 1007 BC 1006 BC 1005 BC 1004 BC 1003 BC 1002 BC 1001 BC 1000 BC |
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Events and trends[edit]
- 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 Mu 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-The United Kingdom of Israel reaches its largest size, it is Israel's golden age.
- c. 1000 BC—Nok culture
- c. 1000 BC—Latins come to Italy from the Danube region.
- c. 1000 BC—Archaeological evidence obtained from inscriptions excavated in 2005 dates the Proto-Dravidian 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 Anatolia 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—Villanovans occupy the northern and western Italy.
- c. 1000 BC—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]
- c. 1000 BC-Rough carbon-14 dating of the Cherchen Man.
Significant people[edit]
- David, king of the ancient Israelites (1006 BC–965 BC)
- Solomon, king of the ancient Israelites (990 BC-931 BC)
- Zoroaster, ancient Iranian prophet (approximate date, estimates range from 1000 BC to 600 BC)
References[edit]
- ^ an average of figures from different sources as listed at the US Census Bureau's Historical Estimates of World Population
- ^ 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. ..."
