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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).

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 Boeotia ns.

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 invade Greece .

c. 1100 BC - Beginning of the Proto-Villanovan Culture in Northern Italy .

c. 1100 BC - Mycenaean Civilization ends.

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 .