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1180s Bc

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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 ).

SIGNIFICANT PEOPLE

1180 BC - Birth of Ramesses III of Egypt .