Trojan War
1,260 BCE–1,180 BCE* · Event
Legendary war between Mycenaean Greeks and Troy in Anatolia, dramatised by Homer's Iliad. Archaeological Troy VIIa was destroyed around this time.
On these timelines: The Bronze Age, Ancient Greece, Anatolia / Byzantium / Ottoman / Turkey, Master
More from The Bronze Age
- Bronze Age begins (3300 BCE)
- Invention of the chariot (2000 BCE)
- The Uluburun shipwreck (1320 BCE)
- Lion Gate of Mycenae (1250 BCE)
- The Standard of Ur (2500 BCE)
Around 1260 BCE
- The Sack of Troy (1184 BCE)
- The death of Hector (1184 BCE)
- Zhou dynasty (1046 BCE)
- The Wooden Horse (1184 BCE)
- Exodus from Egypt (1300 BCE)
- The slaughter of the suitors (1175 BCE)
- The Fall of Troy (1184 BCE)
- The parting of the Red Sea (1446 BCE)
- Moses (1391 BCE)
- Olmec civilisation (1500 BCE)