1000 BC

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.

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

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