1100s BC (decade)

Template:Short description Template:More citations needed The 1100s BC is a decade which lasted from 1109 BC to 1100 BC. Template:Decadebox BC

Events and trends

• 1104 BC—Foundation of Cadiz, Spain.<ref name="ReferenceA">Strabo, Geographica 3.5.5</ref><ref>Pseudo Scymnus or Pausanias of Damascus, Circuit of the Earth, 160-164</ref>
• 1100 BC—Tiglath-Pileser I of Assyria conquers the Hittites.
• Template:Circa—Maya Calendar counts time from this point.
• Template:Circa—The Dorians invade Ancient Greece.
• Template:Circa—Mycenaean era ends with the destruction of that civilization. The collapse of Mycenaean dominance starts.
• Template:Circa—Late Minoan culture ends.
• Template:Circa—Greek Dark Ages begin.
• Template:Circa—Beginning of the proto-Villanovan culture in northern Italy.
• Template:Circa—The New Kingdom in Egypt comes to an end.
• Template:Circa—The Shang dynasty ends in China.
• Template:Circa—Kurukshetra War begins in Later Vedic period in Kuru Kingdom.

Significant people

• c. 1102 BC—Samuel is born.
• c. 1100 BC—Zarathustra is born.

Inventions, discoveries, introductions

• Alphabet, developed by Phoenicians.
• MUL.APIN, developed by Assyrians: an ancient catalog of constellations.