1000s BC (decade)

The 1000s BC is a decade which lasted from 1009 BC to 1000 BC.

Millennium:	2nd millennium BC
Centuries:	12th century BC 11th century BC 10th century BC
Decades:	1020s BC 1010s BC 1000s BC 990s BC 980s BC
Years:	1009 BC 1008 BC 1007 BC 1006 BC 1005 BC 1004 BC 1003 BC 1002 BC 1001 BC 1000 BC
Categories:	Births

Events and trends

• 1006 BC—David becomes king of the ancient United Kingdom of Israel (traditional date).
• 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.[1]
• c. 1000 BC—Nok culture in Nigeria.
• 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[2]
• 1000 BC—Priene, Western Anatolia is founded.
• c. 1000 BC—Hungarian separates from its closest linguistic relatives, the Ob-Ugric languages.
• 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[3]
• c. 1000 BC—Rough carbon-14 dating of the Cherchen Man.

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)
• Saul, king of Israel (1037-1010)

References

1. https://www.ucg.org/bible-study-tools/booklets/the-united-states-and-britain-in-bible-prophecy/israels-golden-age
2. an average of figures from different sources as listed at the US Census Bureau's Historical Estimates of World Population Archived 2013-10-13 at the Wayback Machine
3. 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. ..."