Timeline Chronology: XII century BCE
Ancient History
1200 BCE
- Beginning of the Iron Age in the Near East.
- Beginning of the Iron Age in Italy: Italy is opening up to numerous contacts with the outside world, which are producing rapid and significant changes: Central Europe and Greece. Thus, new civilizations with different characteristics such as the Villanovans were born and developed
- Sea Peoples
- Phoenicians
- Hittite capital of Hattusas destroyed
- States in the Levant raided by the Sea Peoples
- exodus of the Hebrews from Egypt; Moses
- Canaanites in Palestine; Philistines in southern Palestine; Arameans in Syria and northern Mesopotamia.
- Chavín culture emerges in the Peruvian Andes
- Olmec culture emerges in Mexico
1184 BCE
- Reign of Ramesses III, Egypt’s last great pharaoh, starts (to 1153 BCE)
1155 BCE
- Second Dynasty of Isin in Babylon.
1150 BCE
- Mycenaean defenses strengthened, indicating fear of attack