2000 BC to 1000 BC

2000 BC: Arrival of the ancestors of the Latins in Italy.
2000 BC: Town of Mantua was presumably founded.
2000 BC: Stonehenge is believed to have been completed.
2000 BC: Farmers and herders traveled south from Ethiopia and settle in Kenya.
2000 BC: Horses were tamed and used for transport.
c. 2000 BC: First of the Minoan palaces on Crete.
c. 2000 BC: Site of palace complex Knossos started to become occupied.
c. 2000 BC: Decline of Harappan civilization began.
c. 2000 BC: Bronze Age began in north Ancient China.
c. 2000 BC – Torso, from Harappa, Indus Valley Civilization, was made..
c. 2000 BC-1900 BC – Torso of a "priest-king", from Mohenjo-Daro,
Indus Valley civilization, was made..
2000 BCE: Abraham founded Judaism.
2040 BC – 1556 BC: Xia Dynasty in China, Olmec civilization (Mesoamerica).
2064 BC – 1986 BC: Twin Dynasty wars in Egypt.
c. 2000 BC: Middle Jōmon period ended in Japan.
c. 2000 BC: Vessel, from Asahi Mound, Toyama Prefecture, was made. Jōmon period..
c. 2000 BC: Dogū, from Kurokoma, Yamanashi Prefecture, was made. Jōmon period..
1991 BC: Egypt: Pharaoh Mentuhotep IV died. End of Eleventh Dynasty.
Pharaoh Amenemhat I started to rule. Start of Twelfth Dynasty.
c. 1985 BC: Political authority became less centralized in Ancient Egypt.
c. 1985 BC – 1795 BC: Rock-cut tombs at Beni Hasan were made. Twelfth Dynasty.
5c. 1985 BC – 1795 BC: "Hippopotamus", from the tomb of Senbi (governor) (Tomb B.3) at
Meir was made. Twelfth Dynasty..
February 27, 1953 BC: A very close alignment of the naked-eye planets
took place in which these planets are together in a span of 4.3 degrees.
c. 1942 BC: The so-called king of Leubingen (today part of Sömmerda) was buried
in a large barrow within a 66-foot-wide (20 m) stone cairn inside a ring ditch.
1932 BC: Amorite conquest of Ur.
c. 1928 BC – 1895 BC: "Harvest scene", tempera fascimile by Nina de Garis Davies
of wall painting in the tomb of Khnumhotep, Beni Hasan. Twelfth Dynasty.
1913 BC – 1903 BC: Egyptian-Nubian war.

2000 Wheeled chariots and wagons appeared
2000 Second dynasty of Babylon.
2000 Middle Kingdom in Egypt (2052–1570 BC).
2000 Nubia in her Kerma phase (2500-1520)
2000 Tichit (Ancient Ghana) settlements began
2000 Menhir statue of a woman, from Montagnac, France, was made.
2000 Seima-Turbino Phenomenon originating in the Altai Mountains leads to rapid and massive
migrations westward across the Urals into north-eastern Europe and eastward into
China and South-east Asia
2000 Scripters thought to have started
Apparent… Adam and Eve… Beginings
2000 Mayan civilization formed
2000 mesoamerica culture developed
from Mayan culture
2000 - 1600 Erlitou period (Xia Dynasty) in China.
2000 Kamares Ware jug, from Phaistos, Crete, is made. Old Palace period.
1960 Battle of Siddim (Soddom and Gomorrah)
1950 Babylonian Empire established
1900 Hittites Old Kingdom in Anatolia
1900 Proto-Sinaitic script
Canaanite workers in the Egyptian turquoise mines

Hittite empire in Hattusa, Anatolia.
1900 BC: Proto-Greek invasions of Greece.
c. 1900 BC: Minoan Old Palace period starts in Ancient Greece.
c. 1900 BC: Fall of last Sumerian dynasty.
c. 1900 BC: Late Harappan Phase of the Indus Valley Civilization begins
c. 1900 BC: The Mokaya along the Pacific coast of present-day Chiapas,
Mexico were preparing cacao beverages.[1]
c. 1900 BC: Port of Lothal is abandoned.
c. 1897 BC: Senwosret II (Twelfth Dynasty) started to rule. He built Kahun near his
pyramide tomb complex at el-Lahun.
c. 1895–1878 BC: "Pectoral of Senwosret II", from the tomb of princess Sithathoryunet
at el-Lahun was made. Twelfth Dynasty. It is now in the
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
c. 1880 BC: Pharaoh Senwosret II starts to rule (other date is 1897 BC).
1878 BC: Senwosret II (Twelfth Dynasty) died.
c. 1878 BC: Senwosret III (Twelfth Dynasty) started to rule.
1876 BC: Israelites enter Egypt after two years of famine (according to one
interpretation of internal Biblical chronology; an alternate date is 1986 BC).
c. 1874 BC: Pharaoh Senwosret II dies (other date is 1878 BC).
c. 1874 BC: Pharaoh Senwosret III starts to rule (other date is 1878 BC).
c. 1860 BC: Senusret III inspects the Nubian frontier, he leads four punitive
campaigns against the Nubians.
c. 1855 BC: Pharaoh Senwosret III dies (other date is 1839 BC).
c. 1839 BC: Senwosret III (Twelfth Dynasty) died.
1837 BC: Jacob was born, according to some biblical chronologies.
1836 BC-1818 BC: Head of Senusret III is made. Twelfth dynasty of Egypt.
1829–1818 BC: Egyptian–Nubian war.
1818 BC: Egyptian Campaign in Israel.
1813 BC: Amorite Conquest of Northern Mesopotamia.
1806 BC: Traditional date for the end of the Xia Dynasty in China.
Decline of the Beaker culture.

1800 BC: Iron age in India
1800 BC: Beginning of the Nordic Bronze Age in the period system
devised by Oscar Montelius.
1800 BC – 1300 BC: Troy VI flourishes.
c. 1800 BC: Sedentary Mayan communities in Mesoamerica
c. 1800 BC: Hyksos start to settle in the Nile Delta. They had the capital at
Avaris in northeastern Nile Delta.
c. 1792 BC – 1750 BC: (middle chronology) – Hammurabi rules Babylonia and has
to deal with Mari, which he conquers late in his career.
c. 1792 BC – 1750 BC: (middle chronology) – Stela of Hammurabi, from Susa
(modern Shush, Iran) is made. It is now in Musee du Louvre, Paris.
1787 BC – 1784 BC: Amorite conquests of Uruk and Isin.
1786 BC: Egypt: Queen Sobekneferu dies. End of Twelfth Dynasty, start of
Thirteenth Dynasty, start of Fourteenth Dynasty.
1779 BC: Zimrilim, the King of Mari, starts to rule.
1770 BC: Babylon, capital of Babylonia becomes the largest city of the world,
taking the lead from Thebes, capital of Egypt.[1]
1766 BC: Shang conquest of Xia Dynasty. China.
1764 BC – 1750 BC: Wars of Hammurabi.
1757 BC: Mari sacked by Hammurabi. Zimrilim's palace is destroyed.
1757 BC: Zimrilim, the King of Mari, dies.
1750 BC: Hyksos occupation of Northern Egypt.
1750 BC: A colossal volcanic eruption at Mount Veniaminof, Alaska.
c. 1750 BC: Nomadic shepherds, the Aryans, enter India from Central Asia
and the Russian steppes.
c. 1750 BC: Vedic period starts in India.
c. 1750 BC: Investiture of Zimrilim (Zimiri-Lim, King of Mari, before the Goddess Ishtar),
facsimile of a wall painting on mud plaster from the Zimrilim palace at Mari
(modern Tell Hariri, Iraq), Court 106, is made. It is now in Musee du Louvre, Paris.
1749 BC – 1712 BC: Mesopotamian Rebellions.
Early Unetice culture, beginning of the Bronze Age in Central Europe.
Minoan civilization: phase II of the Middle period (MM II).
1800 BC – 1700 BC: Decline of the Indus Valley Civilization

1800 Civilization in Canaan
1800 - 1600 Horse and sun chariot, from Trundholm Sun Chariot, Zealand, Denmark, was made.
1730 Invading Asiatic Hyksos established kingdom in Nile delta
1700 An earthquake damages palaces at Knossos and Phaistos.
1700 - 1550 Woman or Goddess with snakes, from the palace complex, Second Palace period, Knossos,
Crete, is made. It is now at Heraklion Archaeological Museum, Iraklion, Crete.
1700 - 1550 Pendant of gold bees or wasps, from Chryssolakkos near Mallia, Crete, is made.
Old Palace period. It is now at Heraklion Archaeological Museum, Iraklion, Crete.
1700 Bull Jumper (?), from the palace complex, Knossos, Crete, was made.
1700 - 1300 Palace complex in Knossos, Crete, was built.

1800 - 1290 The Patriarchal Era (1800-1290 BC)
Biblical earliest periods

c. 1700 BC: The last species of mammoth became extinct on Wrangel Island.
c. 1700 BC: Indus Valley Civilization comes to an end but is continued by the
Cemetery H culture
1700 BC: Belu-bani became the King of Assyria.
c. 1700 BC: Minoan Old Palace period ends and Minoan Second Palace period
starts in Ancient Greece.
c. 1700 BC: beginning of the Late Minoan period on Crete.
c. 1700 BC: Aegean metalworkers are producing decorative objects rivaling those of
Ancient Near East jewelers, whose techniques they seem to borrow.
c. 1700 BC: Lila-Ir-Tash started to rule the Elamite Empire.
c. 1700 BC: Bronze Age starts in China.
c. 1700 BC: Shang Dynasty starts in China.
c. 1700 BC: 1450 BC: Young girl gathering saffron crocus flowers, detail of wall painting,
Room 3 of House Xeste 3, Akrotiri (Santorini), Thera, is made. Second Palace period.
c. 1698 BC: Lila-Ir-Tash the ruler of the Elamite Empire died. Temti-Agun I started to rule
the Elamite Empire.
1691 BC: Belu-bani, the King of Assyria died.
c. 1690 BC: Temti-Agun I, the ruler of the Elamite Empire, died. Tan-Uli started to rule
the Elamite Empire.
1690 BC: Libaia became the King of Assyria.
c. 1680 BC: Egypt: Start of Sixteenth Dynasty.
c. 1680 BC: Egypt: Development of leavened bread (date approximate).
c. 1673 BC: Sharma-Adad I became the King of Assyria.
c. 1661 BC: Iptar-Sin became the King of Assyria.
c. 1655 BC: Tan-Uli, the ruler of the Elamite Empire, died.
c. 1650 BC: Egypt: Start of the Seventeenth Dynasty.
1649 BC: Bazaia became the King of Assyria.
c. 1674 BC: Egypt: Start of Fifteenth Dynasty.
1633 BC : Egypt: End of the Thirteenth Dynasty.
1627 BC: Beginning of a cooling of world climate lasting several years recorded in
tree-rings all over the world.[1] It might have been caused by the Minoan eruption of
Thera[2] or the Avellino eruption of Mount Vesuvius.[3]
1625 BC: Samsu-Ditana becomes King of Babylon (middle chronology).
1621 BC: Lullaia becomes the King of Assyria.
1620 BC: Mursili I becomes King of the Hittite Empire (middle chronology).
1615 BC: Shu-Ninua became the King of Assyria.
1601 BC: Sharma-Adad II became the King of Assyria.
c. 1600 BC: Egypt: End of Fourteenth Dynasty.
c. 1600 BC: The creation of one of the oldest surviving astronomical documents,
a copy of which was found in the Babylonian library of Ashurbanipal:
a 21-year record of the appearances of Venus (which the early Babylonians called Nindaranna):
Venus tablet of Ammisaduqa.
c. 1600 BC: The end of the Indus Valley civilization.
c. 1600 BC: The overthrow of the ruling Amorite dynasty in Aleppo, Syria.
c. 1600 BC: The date of the earliest discovered rubber balls.
c. 1600 BC: Egypt conquered by Asian tribes known as the Hyksos—see
c. 1600 BC: Early Mycenaean culture: weapons, Cyclopaean walls, and chariots.
c. 1600 BC: Jie of Xia is overthrown by Tang of Shang in the Battle of Mingtiao
c. 1600 BC: Unetice culture ends in Czech Republic, eastern Europe
Development of the windmill in Persia.

1650 Harvester Vase, from Hagia Triada, Crete, is made. Second Palace period.
Vapheio cup, found near Sparta, Greece, was made.
1620 the Minoan eruption of Thera (now known as Santorini), destroys Minoan Akrotiri.
1600 Shang Dynasty was founded in China.
1600 - 1000 Iron Age Thialand
1600 Egyptian domination over Canaan and Syria.
1600 - 1200 Mycenean Civilisation
1600 Iron Age Starts
1600 The syllabical Linear B script
which was used by the Mycenaean Greeks Developed

1627 - 1600 Erruption of Mt Santorini Egypt which could have caused the "Ten Plagues" as
told in the bible or the ten plagues with moses and pharoh Ay


1700 BC – 1500 BC: Hurrian conquests.
1595 BC: Sack of Babylon by the Hittite king Mursilis I.
1570 BC: Cretan palaces at Knossos and other centres flourish despite disasters.
1567 BC: Egypt: End of Fifteenth Dynasty, end of Sixteenth Dynasty,
end of Seventeenth Dynasty, start of Eighteenth Dynasty.
c. 1550 BC: The city of Mycenae, located in the northeast Peloponnesus,
comes to dominate the rest of Achaea, giving its name to Mycenaean civilization.
1556 BC: Cecrops I builds or rebuilds Athens following the great flood of
Deucalion and the end of the Golden age. He becomes the first of several
Kings of Athens whose life account is considered part of Greek mythology.
1556 BC: Shang Dynasty of China established * .
1550 BC: End of Seventeenth dynasty of Egypt, start of the Eighteenth Dynasty
upon the coronation of Ahmose I (Low Chronology).
1530 BC: End of the First Dynasty of Babylon and the start of the
Kassite Dynasty—see History of Iraq.
1525 BC: End of Fifteenth dynasty of Egypt.
c. 1512 BC: The flood of Deucalion, according to O'Flaherty, Augustine,
Eusebius, and Isidore (bishop of Seville).
1506 BC: Cecrops I, legendary King of Athens, dies after a reign of 50 years.
Having survived his own son, he is succeeded by Cranaus.
1504 BC: Egypt started to conquer Nubia and the Levant.
c. 1500 BC: Many scholars date early parts of the Rig Veda to roughly the 16th century.
c. 1500 BC: Queen Hatsheput in Egypt (18th Dynasty).
c. 1500 BC: The element Mercury has been discovered in Egyptian tombs dating from this decade.
c. 1500 BC: Settlers from Crete, Greece move to Miletus, Turkey.
c. 1500 BC: Early traces of Maya civilization developing in Belize.
c. 1500 BC: The Phoenicians develop an alphabet—see
Timeline of communication technology.
c. 1500 BC: Earliest evidence (from archaeological excavations) of a
settlement at Aylesbury, England.
c. 1500 BC: Indo-Aryan migration is often dated to the 17th to 16th centuries.
Unetice culture.

1504 BC – 1492 BC: Egypt conquers Nubia and the Levant.
1500 BC – 1400 BC: The Rigveda was composed around this time.
1500 BC – 1400 BC: The Battle of the Ten Kings took place around this time.
1500 BC: Coalescence of a number of cultural traits including undecorated
pottery, megalithic burials, and millet-bean-rice agriculture indicate the beginning of
the Mumun Pottery Period in the Korean peninsula.
c. 1490 BC: Cranaus, legendary King of Athens, is deposed after a reign of 10 years
by his son-in-law Amphictyon of Thessaly, son of Deucalion and Pyrrha.
1487 BC: Amphictyon, son of Deucalion and Pyrrha and legendary King of Athens,
dies after a reign of 10 years and is succeeded by Erichthonius I of Athens,
a grandson of Cranaus.
c. 1480 BC: Queen Hatsheput succeeded by her stepson and nephew Thutmosis III.
Period of greatest Egyptian expansion (4th Nile cataract tot Euphrates).
c. 1469 BC: In the Battle of Megiddo, Egypt defeats Canaan (Low Chronology).
c. 1460 BC: The Kassites overrun Babylonia and found a dynasty there that lasts
for 576 years and nine months.
1444 BC: Date given in the Hebrew Bible for the exodus of Israel from Egypt.
1437 BC: Legendary King Erichthonius I of Athens dies after a reign of 50 years and
is succeeded by his son Pandion I.
1430 BC – 1160 BC: Hittite New Kingdom established.
1430 BC – 1178 BC: Beginning of Hittite empire.
1420s BC: The Torah is written by Moses.
c. 1420 BC: Crete conquered by Mycenae—start of the Mycenaean period.
First Linear B tablets.
1404 BC: Joshua leads the tribal federation of Israel across the Jordan River to
begin the conquest of the land of Cana'an.
1400 BC: In Crete the use of bronze helmets (discovery at Knossos).
1400 BC: Palace of Minos destroyed by fire.
c. 1400 BC: Linear A reaches its peak of popularity.
c. 1400 BC: The height of the Canaanite town of Ugarit.
Myceneans conquers Greece and border of Anatolia.
The Tumulus culture flourishes.

1580 Hyksos evicted New kingdom established Thebes capital city … 18th Dynasty
1575 Nubian Kerma sacks Egypt
1562 Destruction of Jericho where Arc of Covenant was used supposidly
Jericho battle proven… arc is not as yet.
1550 Bull leaping, wall painting with areas of modern reconstruction,
from the palace complex, Knossos, Crete, is made. Late Minoan period
1550 Bull's-head rhyton, from the palace complex, Second Palace period, Knossos, Crete, is made.
1520 Egypt conquers Nubia, beginning of Egyptian domination of Nubia
1500 First Bantu expansion out of West Africa
1500 - 1066 Shang Dynasty Well
developed writing and First
Chinese Calander was made
1500 Mycenaean penetrated Aegean Sea
1500 Indian Religeous Texts
The Samhitas date to roughly 1500–1000 BCE
1500 Octopus Flask, from Palaikastro, Crete, is made. Second Palace period


1397 BC: Pandion I, legendary King of Athens, dies after a reign of 40 years and is succeeded
by his son Erechtheus II of Athens.
1390 BC: In Mesopotamia, emergence of Assyrians as independent power.
1385 BC: Pharaoh Amenhotep III of Egypt marries Tiy, his Chief Queen.
1380 BC: Amenhotep III connects the Nile and the Red Sea with a canal.
1372 BC: The Hittites conquer all of the Kingdom of Mitanni west of the Euphrates.
(J.M. Roberts, The New History of the World (2003), p 84.)
1357 BC: Danish Egtvedpigen is buried.
1347 BC: King Erechtheus II is reportedly killed by lightning after a reign of 50 years and is
succeeded by his younger brother Cecrops II.
1346 BC: Pharaoh Amenhotep IV of Egypt begins his Cult of Aten and begins construction of
Amarna intended to be his new capital.
1345 BC: Amenhotep IV renames himself Akhenaten.
1336 BC: Akhenaten names Smenkhkare as a co-ruler.
c. 1334 BC: Tutankhaten becomes Pharaoh of Egypt and marries Ankhesenpaaten,
daughter and wife of his predecessor Akhenaton.
1331 BC: Tutankhaten renames himself to Tutankhamun and abandons Amarna, returning
the capital to Thebes.
1324 BC: Pharaoh Ay is crowned king of Egypt
1320 BC: Egypt: End of Eighteenth Dynasty, start of Nineteenth Dynasty.
c. 1310 BC: The Bhagavad Gita is written, according to some Hindu traditions.
c. 1300 BC: Cecrops II, King of Athens, dies after a reign of 40 years and is succeeded by his
son Pandion II. Pandion II was later driven into exile from Athens by the sons of Cecrops II's
brother (or possibly nephew) Metion, so that Metion could take power. Pandion II fled to Megara,
where he married the King's daughter and eventually inherited the throne. After his death,
Pandion II's sons returned to Athens and drove out the sons of Metion.
1307 BC: Adad-nirari I becomes king of Assyria.
1300 BC: The legendary King Pangeng moved the capital of Shang Dynasty to Yin.
c. 1300 BC: Rise of the Urnfield culture.

1300 BC: Cemetery H culture comes to an end.
1292 BC: End of the Eighteenth dynasty of Egypt, start of the Nineteenth Dynasty.
1282 BC: Pandion II, legendary King of Athens, dies after a nominal reign of 25 years.
He reportedly only reigned in Megara while Athens and the rest of Attica were under the
control of an alliance of Nobles led by his uncle Metion (son of Erechtheus of Athens) and his sons
(including in some accounts Daedalus). His four sons lead a successful military campaign
to regain the throne. Aegeus
becomes King of Athens, Nisos reigns in Megara, Lykos in Euboea and Pallas in southern Attica.
(May 31), 1279 BC: Ramesses II becomes leader of Ancient Egypt.
1278 BC: Seti I dies, 1 year after his son, Ramesses II is crowned.
1274 BC: The Battle of Kadesh in Syria. Egyptians and Hittites sign the earliest known peace treaty
at the end of the Battle of Kadesh.
1269 BC: Ramses II, king of ancient Egypt, and Hattusilis III, king of the Hittites, sign the earliest
known peace treaty.
(September 7), 1251 BC: A solar eclipse on this date might mark the birth of legendary Heracles at
Thebes, Greece.
1250 BC: Wu Ding king of Shang Dynasty to 1192 BC.
1250 BC: The Lion gate at Mycene is constructed (comparable with Hittite architecture).
c. 1230 BC: Aegeus, legendary King of Athens, receives a false message that his designated heir
Theseus, his son by Aethra of Troezena, is dead. Theseus had been sent to his overlord Minos of Crete
as an offering to the Minotaur. Medus, Aegeus' only other son (by Medea of Colchis), had been
exiled in Asia and would become legendary ancestor to the Medes. Believing himself without heirs the
King commits suicide after a reign of 48 years. He is succeeded by Theseus, who actually still lives.
The Aegean Sea is reportedly named in his honor.
1210 BC: Pharaoh Merneptah defeats a Libyan invasion.
1213 BC: Theseus, legendary King of Athens, is deposed and succeeded by Menestheus,
great-grandson of Erechtheus and second cousin of Theseus' father Aegeus. Menestheus is reportedly
assisted by Castor and Polydeuces of Sparta, who want to reclaim their sister Helen from her first
husband Theseus. The latter seeks refuge in Skyros, whose King Lycomedes is an old friend and ally.
Lycomedes, however, considers his visitor a threat to the throne and proceeds to assassinate him
(though other accounts place these events a decade later, in the 1200s BC).
1212 BC: Death of Egyptian Pharaoh Ramesses the Great.
1207 BC: Pharaoh Merneptah claims a victory over the people of Israel.
1204 BC: Theseus, legendary King of Athens, is deposed after a reign of 30 years and succeeded by
Menestheus, great-grandson of Erichthonius II of Athens and second cousin of Theseus' father Aegeus.
Menestheus is reportedly assisted by Castor and Polydeuces of Sparta, who want to reclaim their sister
Helen from her first husband Theseus. Theseus seeks refuge in Skyros, whose King Lycomedes is an
old friend and ally. Lycomedes, however, considers his visitor a threat to the throne and proceeds
assassinates him. (Other accounts place these events a decade earlier. See 1210s BC.)
c. 1200 BC: The Cimmerians start settling the steppes of southern Russia? (Undocumented conjecture).
1200 BC: Ancient Pueblo Peoples civilization in North America. (approximate date)
1200 BC: Collapse of Hittite power in Anatolia with the destruction of their capital Hattusa.
1200 BC: Migration and expansion of Dorian Greeks. Destruction of Mycenaean city Pylos.
1200 BC: The proto-Scythian Srubna (Timber-grave) culture expands from the lower Volga region to
cover the whole of the North Pontic area.

1312 According to Jewish tradition the Torah was revealed to Moses, in 1312 BCE at Mount Sinai
(another date given for this event is 1233 BCE)

1391 - 1271 Life of Moses according to judaisum historians
see 1627… ten plagues with moses and pharoh Ay.


1300 Old Testiment in Hebrew apparently written
1274 The Battle of Kadesh in Syria between the Egyptians and Hittites.
1269 Ramses II, pharaoh of ancient Egypt, and Hattusilis III, king of the Hittites,
sign the earliest known peace treaty.
1235 Athens founded
1230 Conquest of Canaan by the Israelites. The United Monarchy emerges in the last
decades of the millennium. (According to the Bible.)
1200 Beginnings of Judaism
1200 - 700 Celtic peoples first moved to England
1200 Austronesian peoples have migrated from Philippines to Celebes,
the Moluccas, northern Borneo and eastern Java.
From Moluccas a group heads west to Malagasy and another
heads east into Oceania reaching Melanesia by 1200 BC
1200 Trojan War


1290 Exodus and the Period of the Judges (1290-1050 BC)
Biblical Exodus era

1197 BC: The beginning of first period (1197 BC – 982 BC) by Sau Yung's concept of the
I Ching and history.
1197 BC: Ramses III of Egypt repels attacks by northern invaders (the "Sea-Peoples").
1194 BC: The beginning of the legendary Trojan War.
1192 BC: Wu Ding king 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.
April 24, 1184 BC: 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
1180 BC: Collapse of Hittite power in Anatolia with the destruction of their capital Hattusa.
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.
1160 BC: Death of Pharaoh Ramesses V, from smallpox.
1159 BC: The Hekla 3 eruption triggers an 18-year period of climatic worsening.
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 descendant
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: Tiglath-Pileser I becomes king of Assyria.
1110 BC: Cadiz (Gadir) founded by Phoenicians in southwestern Spain.
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.
Elamite invaders loot art treasures from Mesopotamia and carry them in Susa.
Fang ding, from Tomb 1004, Houjiazhuang, Anyang, Henan, is made. Shang dynasty,
Anyang period. It is now kept at Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan (approximate date).


1191 Ramses 3rd defeated Indo Euro people
1184 Fall of Troy (traditional date 1184 BC. c.f. Troy VII).
1180 Siege of Troy … Trojan Horse
1180 Sea People arrived in Eastern Med Poss Dorian Origin
1100 Dorian invasion Greek city states
Athens and Sparta
1100 - 700 Israelite Civilisation formed
in 600 - 500 they became
known as Jews or Judah… sons of Israel
1100 - 600 Iron Age Europe

1089 BC: Melanthus, legendary King of Athens, dies after a reign of 37 years and is succeeded
by his son Codrus.
1069 BC: Ramses XI dies, ending the Twentieth Dynasty. He is succeeded by Smendes I,
who founds the Twenty-first Dynasty.
1068 BC: Codrus, legendary King of Athens, dies in battle against Dorian invaders after a reign
of 21 years. Athenian tradition considers him the last King to have held absolute power.
Modern historians consider him the last King whose life account is part of Greek mythology.
He is succeeded by his son Medon.
1050 BC: Philistines capture the Ark of the Covenant from Israel in battle. (Approximate date)
1048 BC: Medon, King of Athens, dies after a reign of 20 years and is succeeded by his son
Acastus.
1046 BC: King Wu of Zhou overthrows the last Chinese Shang Dynasty King Di Xin and
becomes first king of the Zhou Dynasty (1046 BC—256 BC) founded by his father
King Wen of Zhou.
1044 BC: On the death of Smendes I, king of Egypt, he is succeeded by two co-regents,
Psusennes I and Neferkare Amenemnisu.
1042 BC: King Cheng of Zhou succeeds King Wu as ruler of the Zhou Dynasty in China,
1039 BC: Neferkare Amenemnisu, king of Egypt, dies.
c. 1020 BC: Destruction of Troy VIIb2.
1026 BC: Saul the King becomes the first king of the Israelites.
1020 BC: King Kang of Zhou succeeds King Cheng as ruler of the Zhou Dynasty in China.
1012 BC: Acastus, King of Athens, dies after a reign of 36 years and is succeeded by his
son Archippus.
1003 BC: David succeeds Saul the King.
1000s BC: Earliest evidence of farming in the Kenya highlands.
c. 1000 BC: Latins come to Italy from the Danube region.
c. 1000 BC: Archaeological evidence obtained from inscriptions excavated in 2005 dates the
Tamil language, a classical language spoken in India.
1000s BC: Phoenician alphabet invented.
1000 BC - The construction of the 'Heroon' at Lefkandi.

1066 - 221 Zhou Dynasty Feudal structure broke down
ending with Warring States
1050 Phoenician alphabet, The Proto-Sinaitic script eventually developed into this
1050 The oldest text in Phoenician script is an inscription on the sarcophagus of King Ahiram
1045 Zhou Dynasty was founded in China.
1000 Indian Religeous Texts Revised redaction of the Samhitas (1000 - 500)
1000 Book of Exodus written describing the making of Arc of Covenent
1000 Oldest Hebrew (Jewish) pottery
1000 rise of Nok culture
1000 rise of Chavín de Huántar in Peru
1000 Beginning of East/South Bantu expansion
1000 decline of Tichit -Walata
1000 Helladic period ended in Ancient Greece
1000 Settlement of Poverty Point, Louisiana reached its height
1000 c Organized Sparta formed
Dorians invaded lacedaemon taking over the
non dorian population and removing the political
power that the lacedeamon's had on the banks
of the river Eurotas in Laceonia Greece.

1050 Early Israelite Monarchy (1050-750 BC)
Biblical Israelite era

1029 Saul (1029-1000)
Kings in Bible