~1000 BC

Events

• The Olympiads began, either at the beginning of the reign of Jotham or at the end of the reign of Uzziah, approximately the three thousandth year from the creation of the world; everything before the Olympiads in profane history is filled with fables, making Moses and the Hebrews the only certain source for three thousand years of world history

Preface and Praise of Sacred Scripture

• II. The Richness of the Old Testament — Pagan history before the Olympiads is unreliable

  "But the Olympiads began either at the beginning of the reign of Jotham, or at the end of the reign of Uzziah, that is, after the three thousandth year from the creation of the world and more: so that for three thousand years, you have no certain history of the world except this one of Moses and the Hebrews."