1180s BC

Events and trends

• 1186 BC—End of the Nineteenth dynasty of Egypt, start of the Twentieth Dynasty.
• 1184 BC—April 24, the traditional date of the fall of Troy.
• 1182 BC—A desperate letter of Ammurapi, the last king of Ugarit, reporting the approaching fleet of the Peoples of the Sea. Shortly thereafter they destroyed both Ugarit and Alasiya.
• 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.
• c. 1180 BC—Invaders razed Hattusa causing the collapse of the Hittite Empire