Iron Age begins (Hittite area)
1,200 BCE* · Event
Iron metallurgy spreads from Anatolia.
On these timelines: Master, Anatolia / Byzantium / Ottoman / Turkey, The Bronze Age, Mesopotamia & the Ancient Near East
Around 1200 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)
- Phoenician alphabet emerges (1050 BCE)