1000 Bce

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1000 Bce

1040s BC 1030s BC 1020s BC 1010s BC - 1000s BC - 990s BC 980s BC 970s BC 960s BC 950s 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 BCE - Latins come to Italy from the Danube region.

c. 1000 BCE - Archaelogical evidence obtained from inscriptions excavated in 2005 dates the Tamil language, a classical language spoken in India .

Phoenician Alphabet invented.

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 ).