1150s BC

Decade

The 1150s BC is a decade which lasted from 1159 BC to 1150 BC.

Millennium
2nd millennium BC
Centuries
  • 13th century BC
  • 12th century BC
  • 11th century BC
Decades
  • 1170s BC
  • 1160s BC
  • 1150s BC
  • 1140s BC
  • 1130s BC
Years
  • 1159 BC
  • 1158 BC
  • 1157 BC
  • 1156 BC
  • 1155 BC
  • 1154 BC
  • 1153 BC
  • 1152 BC
  • 1151 BC
  • 1150 BC
Categories
  • Births
  • Deaths
  • v
  • t
  • e

Events and trends

  • 1159 BC—The Hekla 3 eruption triggers 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.
  • 1154 BC—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]
  • 1152 BC, 14 November—First historically confirmed workers' strike, under Pharaoh Ramses III in ancient Egypt.[4][5]
  • 1150 BC—Demophon, 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

References

  1. ^ Fahlbusch, Erwin; Lochman, Jan Milic; Bromiley, Geoffrey William; Barrett, David B. (2005). The encyclopedia of Christianity. Grand Rapids: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing. p. 185. ISBN 9780802824165.
  2. ^ Breasted, James Henry (2001). Ancient Records of Egypt: The first through the seventeenth dynasties. University of Illinois Press. p. 24. ISBN 0-252-06990-0.
  3. ^ Killebrew, Ann E. (2005). Biblical Peoples and Ethnicity: An Archaeological Study of Egyptians, Canaanites, Philistines and Early Israel 1300–1100 BC. Society of Biblical Literature. p. 202. ISBN 1-58983-097-0.
  4. ^ François Daumas, (1969). Ägyptische Kultur im Zeitalter der Pharaonen, pp. 309. Knaur Verlag, Munich
  5. ^ 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.
  6. ^ Harding, Phillip (2006). The story of Athens. London: Routledge. ISBN 978-1-134-30447-9. OCLC 1100435996.