1150s BC

Millennium:	2nd millennium BC
Centuries:	13th century BC – 12th century BC – 11th century BC
Decades:	1180s BC 1170s BC 1160s BC – 1150s BC – 1140s BC 1130s BC 1120s BC
Years:	1159 BC 1158 BC 1157 BC 1156 BC 1155 BC 1154 BC 1153 BC 1152 BC 1151 BC 1150 BC
1150s BC-related categories:	Births – Deaths

Events and trends

• 1159 BC—The Hekla 3 eruption triggers an 18-year period of climatic worsening. (estimated date, disputed)
• 1154 BC—Death of King Menelaus of Sparta (estimated date).
• 1154 BC—Suicide of exiled Queen Helen of Sparta at Rhodes. (estimated date).
• The Trojan war takes place at about this time
• 1154 BC—Medinet Habu (temple): records a people called the P-r-s-t (conventionally Peleset) among those who fought with Egypt in Ramesses III's reign.^[1][2][3]

Significant people

• 1153 BC—Death of pharaoh Ramesses III of Egypt

References

1. Fahlbusch et al., 2005, p. 185.
2. Ancient Records of Egypt: The first through the seventeenth dynasties, James Henry Breasted, page 24
3. Killebrew 2005, p. 202.