12th century BC

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Millennium:	2nd millennium BC
Centuries:	13th century BC · 12th century BC · 11th century BC
Decades:	1190s BC 1180s BC 1170s BC 1160s BC 1150s BC 1140s BC 1130s BC 1120s BC 1110s BC 1100s BC
Categories:	Births – Deaths Establishments – Disestablishments

Contents 1 Overview 2 Events 3 Significant persons 4 Inventions, discoveries, introductions 5 Decades and years

[edit] Overview

The 12th century BC is the period from 1200 to 1101 BC.

[edit] Events

• 1197 BC — The beginning of first period (1197 BC — 982 BC) by Sau Yung's concept of the I Ching and history.
• 1194 BC — The beginning of the legendary Trojan War.
• 1192 BC — Wu Ding emperor of Shang Dynasty died.
• 1191 BC — Menestheus, legendary King of Athens, dies during the Trojan War after a reign of 23 years and is succeeded by his nephew Demophon, a son of Theseus. Other accounts place his death a decade later and shortly after the Trojan War (see 1180s BC).
• 1186 BC — End of the Nineteenth dynasty of Egypt, start of the Twentieth Dynasty.
• 1184 BC April 24 — Traditional date for the fall of Troy, Asia Minor to the Mycenaeans and their allies. This marks the end of the Trojan War of Greek mythology.
• 1181 BC — Menestheus, legendary King of Athens and veteran of the Trojan War, dies after a reign of 23 years and is succeeded by his nephew Demophon, a son of Theseus. Other accounts place his death a decade earlier and during the Trojan War (see 1190s BC).
• 1180 BC — The last Kassite king, Anllil-nadin-akhe, is defeated by the Elamites
• April 16, 1178 BC — A solar eclipse may mark the return of Odysseus, legendary King of Ithaca, to his kingdom after the Trojan War. He discovers a number of suitors competing to marry his wife Penelope, whom they believe to be a widow, in order to succeed him on the throne. He organizes their slaying and re-establishes himself on the throne.
• 1180 BC — Collapse of Hittite power in Anatolia with the destruction of their capital Hattusa.
• 1160 BC — Death of Pharaoh Ramesses V, from smallpox.
• 1159 BC — The Hekla 3 eruption triggers an 18-year period of climatic worsening.
• 1154 BC — Death of King Menelaus of Sparta (estimated date).
• 1154 BC — Suicide of exiled Queen Helen of Sparta at Rhodes. (estimated date).
• c. 1150 BC — End of Egyptian rule in Palestine. Rameses VI last Pharaoh acknowledged.
• 1147 BC — Demophon, legendary King of Athens and veteran of the Trojan War, dies after a reign of 33 years and is succeeded by his son Oxyntes.
• 1137 BC — Ramses VII begins his reign as the sixth ruler of the Twentieth dynasty of Egypt.
• 1135 BC — Oxyntes, legendary King of Athens, dies after a reign of 12 years and is succeeded by his elder son Apheidas.
• 1134 BC — Apheidas, legendary King of Athens, is assassinated and succeeded by his younger brother Thymoetes after a reign of 1 year.
• 1126 BC — Thymoetes, legendary King of Athens, dies childless after a reign of 8 years. He is succeeded by his designated heir Melanthus of Pylos, a fifth-generation descendant of Neleus who had reportedly assisted him in battle against the Boeotians.
• 1122 BC — Legendary founding date of the city of Pyongyang.
• c. 1120 BC — destruction of Troy VIIb₁
• 1115 BC — Zhou cheng wang becomes king of the Zhou Dynasty of China.
• 1115 BC — Tiglath-Pileser I becomes king of Assyria.
• 1110 BC - Cadiz (Gadir) founded by Phoenecians in southwestern Spain
• 1100 BC — Tiglath-Pileser I of Assyria conquers the Hittites.
• c. 1100 BC — The Dorians supposedly invade Greece.
• c. 1100 BC — Beginning of the proto-Villanovan culture in northern Italy.
• c. 1100 BC — Mycenaean civilization ends. Start of Greek Archaic Period.
• c. 1100 BC — The New Kingdom in Egypt comes to an end.

• Elamite invaders loot art treasures from Mesopotamia and carry them in Susa.

[edit] Significant persons

• Amenemses, Pharaoh of the Nineteenth Dynasty of Egypt (1202 BC–1199 BC)
• 1180 BC — Birth of Ramesses III of Egypt
• 1153 BC — Death of pharaoh Ramesses III of Egypt
• 1146 BC — Nebuchadnezzar I becomes king of Babylon
• 1116 BC — Death of King Wu of Zhou, King of the Zhou Dynasty (1122 BC–256 BC) of China

[edit] Inventions, discoveries, introductions

• 1100s BC — Alphabet developed by Phoenicians.

[edit] Decades and years

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