1055 Death of Saul; succession of David; 1048 crowned king of all Israel; 1047 takes Jerusalem from the Jebusites.
1044 Settlement of the Ionian colonies in Asia Minor; Age of Homer; the cities of Smyrna, Chios, Colophon, Salamis, Rhodes, Argos and Athens afterwards contend for the honour of his birth.
1037 The Moabites and Ammonites conquered by David.
1035 Rabbath Ammon taken by Joab; Uriah killed at the siege.
1033 Birth of Solomon; Age of Hiram king of Tyre.
1014 Death of David; succeeded by Solomon; Most flourishing period of the kingdom of Israel.
1003 Temple at Jerusalem built and dedicated by Solomon.
994 Dorians establish colonies in Asia Minor.
975 Death of Solomon; Rehoboam succeeds him; his tyranny causes a division of the realm into the kingdom of Judah and Israel; Jeroboam king of Israel; Rehoboam king of Judah.
971 Shishak, king of Egypt, plunders the temple at Jerusalem.