1150s BC
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The 1150s BC is a
decade
which lasted from 1159 BC to 1150 BC.
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| 2nd millennium BC |
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Events and trends
- 1159 BC—The Hekla 3 eruptiontriggers an 18-year period of climatic worsening. (estimated date, disputed)
- 1154 BC—Death of King Menelaus of Sparta (estimated date), thirty years after the traditional date for the Fall of Troy in the Homeric Trojan War.
- Medinet Habu (temple): records a people called the P-r-s-t (conventionally Peleset) among those who fought with Egypt in Ramesses III's reign.[1][2][3]
- King of Athens and veteran of the Trojan War, dies after a reign of 33 years and is succeeded by his son Oxyntes.[6]
Significant people
- Nebuchadnezzar I, king of Babylon, is born (approximate date).
References
- ISBN 9780802824165.
- ISBN 0-252-06990-0.
- ISBN 1-58983-097-0.
- ^ François Daumas, (1969). Ägyptische Kultur im Zeitalter der Pharaonen, pp. 309. Knaur Verlag, Munich
- ^ John Romer, Ancient Lives; the story of the Pharaoh's Tombmakers. London: Phoenix Press, 1984, pp. 116-123 See also E.F. Wente, "A letter of complaint to the Vizier To", in Journal of Near Eastern Studies, 20, 1961 and W.F. Edgerton, "The strikes in Ramses III's Twenty-ninth year", Journal of Near Eastern Studies, 10, 1951.
- OCLC 1100435996.