11th Century BC

B.C.

1095 The Israelites demand a king (1 Samuel 8:19)

1095 Samuel anoints Saul, a Benjamite to be king, reigns for 40 years (1 Samuel 10:1)

1085 David is born (1 Samuel 17:12)

1093 King Saul defeats the Philistines

1085 David is born (1 Samuel 17:12)

1065 Egypt?s New Kingdom ends when Rameses XI dies

1065 Smendes becomes pharaoh and founds the 21st Dynasty

1063 King Saul defeats the Amalekites but disobeys God (1 Samuel 15:22)

1063 David is anointed by Samuel in Bethlehem (1 Samuel 16:13)

1063 David slays Goliath of Gath, the Philistine giant (1 Samuel 17)

1060 David is hunted by Saul and flees to Philistia (1 Samuel 21:10)

1060 The Philistine king Achish gives david the city of Ziklag (1 Samuel 27:6)

1056 Many from the tribes of Benjamin and Judah come to Ziklag (1 Chronicles 12)

1055 Saul seeks counsel from the witch of Endor (1 Samuel 28:7)

1055 Saul and Jonathan die on Mount Gilboa (1 Samuel 31:6)

1055 David laments over the death of Saul and Jonathan (2 Samuel 1)

1055 The House of Judah follows David as king at Hebron

1053 Ishbosheth is proclaimed king of Israel

1048 Ishbosheth is assasinated (2 Samuel 4)

1045 The kingdom of Israel is united under David (2 Samuel 5:3-4)

1045 David conquers Jerusalem and makes it his capital (2 Samuel 5)

1045 David brings the Ark of the Covenant to Jerusalem (2 Samuel 6)

1045 Codron, the last king of Athens is killed

1035 David commits Adultery with bathsheba and murders her husband (2 Samuel 11)

1034 Nathan confronts David and he repents (2 Samuel 12)

1033 Solomon is born (2 Samuel 12)

1032 David's son Ammon rapes his sister Tamar (2 Samuel 13)

1030 David's son Absalom slays Ammon and flees to Syria (2 Samuel 13:23)

1027 Absalom returns to Jerusalem (2 Samuel 13)

1024 Absalom rebels against David and steals the hearts of the people (2 Samuel 15)

1023 Ahithophel's advice is rejected and he hangs himself (2 Samuel 17:23)

1023 Joab defeats and slays Absalom (2 Samuel 18:15)

1021 A severe famine occurs for 3 years (2 Samuel 21:1-2)

1018 David brings the bones of Saul and Jonathan to their family tomb in Zelah (2 Samuel 21:12-14)

1018 David is old and faints in battle (2 Samuel 21:16-22)

1017 David takes a census and numbers the fighting men of Israel and Judah (2 Samuel 24:8)

1017 David repents over the census but the prophet Gad rebukes him (2 Samuel 24:10-15)

1017 David was commanded to build an altar and sacrifice in the threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite (2 Samuel 24)

1017 David purchased the threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite and offered sacrifices (2 Samuel 24:19-25)

1015 David is old and his son Adonijah makes himself king (1 Kings 1)

1015 David proclaims Solomon as king of Israel (1 Kings 1)

1015 David instructs Solomon and dies (1 Kings 2:1-10)

1004 Solomon Finished the Temple in Jerusalem (1 Kings 6, 7)

1000 Phoenicia is 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