Millennia:	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
Categories:	Births - Deaths - State leaders - Sovereign states Establishments - Disestablishments

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 — Bronze Age ends.
• 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.
• Phoenician alphabet is 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)

References

1. ^ an average of figures from different sources as listed at the US Census Bureau's Historical Estimates of World Population