12th century BC

Overview

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.
1166 BC - The Curse of Greyface and the start of the Discordian calendar.
1160 BC - Death of Pharaoh Ramesses V, from smallpox.
1159 BC - Global "tree ring event" (period of arrested tree growth) lasting for 18 years.
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 descedant 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.
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.

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 Zhou wu wang, King of the Zhou Dynasty (1122 BC - 256 BC) of China.

Inventions, discoveries, introductions

1100s BC - Alphabet developed by Phoenicians.

12th century BC

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Inventions, discoveries, introductions