Iron Age begins (Hittite area)
1,200 BCE* · Event
Iron metallurgy spreads from Anatolia.
On these timelines: Master, Anatolia / Byzantium / Ottoman / Turkey, Mesopotamia & the Ancient Near East
Around 1200 BCE
- Zhou dynasty (1046 BCE)
- Exodus from Egypt (1300 BCE)
- Moses (1391 BCE)
- Phoenician alphabet emerges (1050 BCE)
- Ramesses II (the Great) (1303 BCE)
- Zoroaster composes the Gathas (1100 BCE)
- Zoroaster (1200 BCE)
- Bronze Age collapse (1200 BCE)
- King David (1040 BCE)
- Construction of Solomon's Temple (957 BCE)