1180s BC

Millennium:	2nd millennium BC
Centuries:	13th century BC – 12th century BC – 11th century BC
Decades:	1210s BC 1200s BC 1190s BC – 1180s BC – 1170s BC 1160s BC 1150s BC
Years:	1189 BC 1188 BC 1187 BC 1186 BC 1185 BC 1184 BC 1183 BC 1182 BC 1181 BC 1180 BC
Categories:	Births – Deaths – Architecture Establishments – Disestablishments

Events and trends

1186 BC—End of the Nineteenth dynasty of Egypt, start of the Twentieth Dynasty.
1184 BC—April 24, the traditional date of the fall of Troy.
1182 BC—A desperate letter of Ammurapi, the last king of Ugarit, reporting the approaching fleet of the Peoples of the Sea. Shortly thereafter they destroyed both Ugarit and Alasiya (Cyprus).
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).
c. 1180 BC—Invaders razed Hattusa causing the collapse of the Hittite Empire