1000s BC

Millennia:	[[2Template:Ordinal/th millennium BC\|2Template:Ordinal/th millennium BC]]
Centuries:	[[12Template:Ordinal/th century BC\|12Template:Ordinal/th century BC]] - [[11Template:Ordinal/th century BC\|11Template:Ordinal/th century BC]] - [[10Template:Ordinal/th century BC\|10Template:Ordinal/th 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 fro 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.