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B.C.
1089 Jephthah becomes judge
1083 Ibzan becomes judge
1071 Elon becomes judge; Samson becomes judge
1069 Samuel begins to minister
1066 Abdon becomes judge
1065 Egypt’s New Kingdom ends when Rameses XI dies
1065 Smendes becomes pharaoh and founds the 21st Dynasty
1045 Codron, the last king of Athens is killed
1040 Saul becomes king of Israel till 1000
1040 Samuel is a prophet in Israel till 1000
1030 King Saul routes the Philistines
1020 David slays Goliath of Gath, the Philistine giant
1000 Saul and Jonathan slain; David becomes king of Judah
1000 David becomes king over all Israel till 960 B.C.
1000 King David captures Jerusalem and makes it his capital
1000 Phoenicia founded
1000 Phoenician alphabet developed
1000 Hebrew alephbet developed
1000 Aramaeans overrun much of Assyria
1000 Kingdoms of Media and Parsa (Persia) founded by migrating Aryans
1000 Lydians from Asia Minor settle in Italy
1000 Ionians settle on the west coast of Asia Minor
1000 Iron in use in Greece
1000 Mayans settle in the Yucatan Peninsula
1000 Colonization of Samoa in the South Pacific