1025 BC -1025 AD

1025 BC

Governance

• 1020 BC — Saul the King becomes the first king of the Israelites.
• 1020 BC — Troy was destroyed
• Boleslaw I Chrobry is crowned as the first king of Poland
• the end of the Shang Dynasty in China
• David becomes King in 1025 BC after Saul and his son Jonathan die in battle
• Rise of the Hebrew Kingdom
• Start of Protogeometric Period
• End of Mycenaean Civilization
• 1039 BC The reign of Pharaoh Psusennes I
• 1047 BC Saul reigns as first Hebrew king in Judaea

Technology

• Invention of military rockets by the Chinese
• 1025 BC an iron sword, the oldest found in Greece
• 1025 - 900 BC, the Proto-Geometric phase saw pottery beginning to be decorated with simple shapes, black bands and wavy lines
• Inscriptions on the shang oracle bones provide earliest versions of the Chinese character
• 1044 BC Gasoline-based flamethrowers common in China
• Srivijaya, a partly Buddhist kingdom based on Sumatra, is attacked by the Chola empire of southern India in a dispute over trading rights in South-east Asia.
• 1025 BC bronze more or less vanishes from excavated sites in central Greece, being replaced by a previously rare metal - iron.
• 1025 BC, several tribes united to form the United Kingdom of Israel and Judah


Institution

• City of Gangaikonda Cholapuram founded as a capital of the Chola Empire.
• Pomposa Abbey near Ferrara, Italy completed
• Construction of Sant Vicenç de Cardonia, Catalonia begun.
• 1031BC The Centennial Stump, a giant sequoia, started its growth, and was cut down in 1874CE.


1025 AD

Commerce

• a gold coin of Mahmood of Ghazni dated 1025 ad
• Byzantine - Anonymous Class A3 Bronze Follis 24mm Struck during the sole reign of Constantine VIII, and also the last few years of Basil II
1025 AD Srivijaya, a partly Buddhist kingdom based in Sumatra, is attacked by the Chola Empire of southern India.
• 1025 AD Goblet with Lion Decoration
• 1025-1028 AD Gold Solidus – Constatine V111
• 1026 AD Japanese novelist, one of her country's greatest writers, and the author of what is generally considered the world's first novel, The Tale of Genji
• 1030 AD Olaf II he was converted to Christianity in Rouen
• The throne passed to Romanos III Argyros (1028-1034), who had married his 50 year old daughter Zoe.
• Charred material from the cordwrapped stick impressions; dated to 1025 A.D.


Institutions

• 1025: The Confessions of a Communist Agent On The Attempt to Destroy the Roman Catholic Church from Within
• 1040 AD the oldest brewery still active was founded at Weihenstephan.
• 1037 AD the first foundations of Saint Sophia Cathedral in Kiev were laid
• 1050–1025 AD) The Kandarya Mahadeva Temple.
• 1033 AD To celebrate the millenary of Christ's crucifixion and resurrection, the Catholic Church launches “God's Truce”
• 1034 AD Fratricide war is waged between the usurper Alusian and his brothers Troianos and Gabriel
• 1034-1041 AD The last great pagan uprising happens in Poland; monasteries are burnt to ashes, the clergy massacred by the heathens
• 1025AD church in Moster, Norway

Governance

• 1025 AD Boleslaw I Chrobry is crowned as the first king of Poland.
• 1026 AD Pietro Barbolano became Doge of Venice.
• 1030 AD the patron saint of Norway, King Olaf the Second, was killed in the Battle of Stiklestad.
• 1030 AD the city of Tartu in Estonia was founded.
• 1036 AD Emperor Go-Suzaku ascended the throne of Japan.
• 1030 AD Iago Idwal became King of Powys
• 1024-1030 AD A fierce succession war rages for six years between the Luxemburgian
• 1025 AD-Death of the Emperor Basil II in 1025

Technology

• 1024 AD The Chinese issue the first paper money.
• 1030 AD Ali Ahmad Nasawi - Divided hours into 60 minutes and minutes into 60 seconds.
• 1045 AD movable type printing was invented by Bi Sheng in China.
• 1022: Ibn al-Bawwab - Arabic calligrapher and illuminator
• 1025-around this time is the earliest known evidence that seagoing wooden ships are being built in the modern way

CITATIONS
www.nationmaster.com/encyclopedia/1025-BC
www.zachriel.com/gotm11/bc1025-EasternLands.html
cnx.org/content/m17977/latest/