The 1150s BC is a
decade
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Usage
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that lasted from 1159 BC to 1150 BC.
Events and trends
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1159 BC—The
Hekla 3 eruption triggers an 18-year period of climatic worsening. (estimated date, disputed)
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1154 BC—Death of
King
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Menelaus
In Greek mythology, Menelaus (; ) was a Greek king of Mycenaean (pre- Dorian) Sparta. According to the ''Iliad'', the Trojan war began as a result of Menelaus's wife, Helen, fleeing to Troy with the Trojan prince Paris. Menelaus was a central ...
of
Sparta
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(estimated date), thirty years after the traditional date for the Fall of Troy in the Homeric
Trojan War
The Trojan War was a legendary conflict in Greek mythology that took place around the twelfth or thirteenth century BC. The war was waged by the Achaeans (Homer), Achaeans (Ancient Greece, Greeks) against the city of Troy after Paris (mytho ...
.
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1154 BC—
Medinet Habu (temple)
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: records a people called the ''P-r-s-t'' (conventionally ''Peleset'') among those who fought with
Egypt
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in
Ramesses III
Usermaatre Meryamun Ramesses III was the second Pharaoh of the Twentieth dynasty of Egypt, Twentieth Dynasty in Ancient Egypt. Some scholars date his reign from 26 March 1186 to 15 April 1155 BC, and he is considered the last pharaoh of the New K ...
's reign.
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1152 BC, 14 November—First historically confirmed
workers' strike
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, under Pharaoh
Ramses III
Usermaatre Meryamun Ramesses III was the second Pharaoh of the Twentieth Dynasty in Ancient Egypt. Some scholars date his reign from 26 March 1186 to 15 April 1155 BC, and he is considered the last pharaoh of the New Kingdom to have wielded sub ...
in
ancient Egypt
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.
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1150 BC—
Demophon,
King of Athens
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and veteran of the
Trojan War
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, dies after a reign of 33 years and is succeeded by his son
Oxyntes
Oxyntes () was a mythical king of Athens, son of Demophon (and therefore grandson of Theseus). He had two sons, Apheidas and Thymoetes, who succeeded him, one another, in the throne. Thymoetes was the last descendant of Theseus on the Athenian thr ...
.
Significant people
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1153 BC—Death of
pharaoh
Pharaoh (, ; Egyptian language, Egyptian: ''wikt:pr ꜥꜣ, pr ꜥꜣ''; Meroitic language, Meroitic: 𐦲𐦤𐦧, ; Biblical Hebrew: ''Parʿō'') was the title of the monarch of ancient Egypt from the First Dynasty of Egypt, First Dynasty ( ...
Ramesses III
Usermaatre Meryamun Ramesses III was the second Pharaoh of the Twentieth dynasty of Egypt, Twentieth Dynasty in Ancient Egypt. Some scholars date his reign from 26 March 1186 to 15 April 1155 BC, and he is considered the last pharaoh of the New K ...
of
Egypt
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*
Nebuchadnezzar I
Nebuchadnezzar I ( ; Babylonian: md''Nabû-kudurrī-úṣur'' ()''Babylonian King List C'', 4 or md''Nábû-ku-dúr-uṣur'',''Synchronistic King List'', tablet excavation number Ass. 14616c (KAV 216), ii 15. meaning " Nabû, protect my eldest s ...
, king of
Babylon
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, is born (approximate date).
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