1180S BC

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Events and trends

Significant people

Events and trends

★ 1186 BC — End of the Nineteenth dynasty of Egypt, start of the Twentieth Dynasty.

★ 1184 BC, April 24 — Traditional date of the fall of Troy.

★ 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

Significant people

★ 1180 BC — Birth of Ramesses III of Egypt