1180s BC

Events and trends

1186 BC — End of the Nineteenth dynasty of Egypt, start of the Twentieth Dynasty.
1184 BC, April 24 — Traditional date of the fall of Troy.
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 (see 1190s BC).
c. 1180 BC — Invaders razed Hattusa causing the collapse of the Hittite Empire