•
1207 BC • Pharaoh
Merneptah claims a victory over Libyans and
Sea Peoples at the
Battle of Perire. •
October 30 – Earliest known dateable
solar eclipse. •
1206 BC: Approximate starting date of
Late Bronze Age collapse, a period of
migration, unrest and destruction in the eastern
Mediterranean and
Ancient Near East, and beginning of the
Iron Age in the Near East. •
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 to
assassinate him. (Other accounts place these events a decade earlier. See
1210s BC.) • c. 1200 BC: Start of Pan-
Illyrians • c. 1200 BC: Collapse of
Hittite power in
Anatolia with the destruction of their capital
Hattusa. • c. 1200 BC: The
Israelite highland settlement takes place, with a notable increase in the settled population in the hills north of
Jerusalem during this time. • c. 1200 BC: Massive migrations of people around the Mediterranean and the Middle-East. See
Sea People for more information. • c. 1200 BC:
Aramaic nomads and
Chaldeans become a big threat to the former
Babylonian and
Assyrian Empire. • c. 1200 BC: Migration and expansion of
Dorian Greeks. Destruction of Mycenaean city
Pylos. • c. 1200 BC: Final destruction of the major Mycenian city excavated at
Iklaina. • c. 1200 BC: The
Cimmerians are conjectured to have started settling the steppes of southern
Russia. • c. 1200 BC: The proto-Scythian
Srubna (Timber-grave) culture expands from the lower
Volga region to cover the whole of the North
Pontic area. • c. 1200 BC:
Olmec culture starts and thrives in
Mesoamerica. • c. 1200 BC:
San Lorenzo Tenochtitlán starts to flourish. • c. 1200 BC:
Ancestral Puebloan civilization in
North America. (approximate date) • c. 1200 BC: Possible battle in the
Tollense River Valley of northern Germany. • c. 1200 BC: The
Yajurveda is composed. ==Literature==