Editing 1150s BC

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The '''1150s BC''' is a [[List of decades|decade]] which lasted from 1159 BC to 1150 BC.
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==Events and trends==
*[[1159 BC]]—The [[Hekla 3 eruption]] triggers an 18-year period of climatic worsening. (estimated date, disputed)
*[[1154 BC]]—Death of [[monarch|King]] [[Menelaus]] of [[Sparta]] (estimated date), thirty years after the traditional date for the Fall of Troy in the Homeric [[Trojan War]].
*[[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.<ref name=Fahlbuschp185>{{Cite book|first1=Erwin|last1=Fahlbusch|first2=Jan Milic|last2=Lochman|first3=Geoffrey William|last3=Bromiley|first4=David B.|last4=Barrett|title=The encyclopedia of Christianity|publisher=Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing|location=Grand Rapids|year=2005|isbn=9780802824165|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=sCY4sAjTGIYC&pg=PA18|page=185}}</ref><ref name=ARE>{{cite book|last=Breasted|first=James Henry|authorlink=James Henry Breasted|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mJPs-PA0AEUC&pg=PA24|title=Ancient Records of Egypt: The first through the seventeenth dynasties|publisher=University of Illinois Press|date=2001|isbn=0-252-06990-0|page=24}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last=Killebrew |first= Ann E. |year=2005 |title=Biblical Peoples and Ethnicity: An Archaeological Study of Egyptians, Canaanites, Philistines and Early Israel 1300–1100 BC |publisher= Society of Biblical Literature |isbn=1-58983-097-0 |page=202}}</ref>
*[[1152 BC]], 14 November—First historically confirmed [[workers' strike]], under Pharaoh [[Ramses III]] in [[ancient Egypt]].<ref>François Daumas, (1969). ''Ägyptische Kultur im Zeitalter der Pharaonen'', pp. 309. [[Knaur Verlag]], [[Munich]]</ref><ref>John Romer, ''Ancient Lives; the story of the Pharaoh's Tombmakers. London'': Phoenix Press, 1984, pp. 116-123 See also E.F. Wente, "A letter of complaint to the Vizier To", in ''Journal of Near Eastern Studies'', 20, 1961 and W.F. Edgerton, "The strikes in Ramses III's Twenty-ninth year", ''Journal of Near Eastern Studies'', 10, 1951.</ref>
*[[1150 BC]]—[[Demophon of Athens|Demophon]], [[King of Athens]] and veteran of the [[Trojan War]], dies after a reign of 33 years and is succeeded by his son [[Oxyntes]].<ref>{{Cite book |last=Harding |first=Phillip |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1100435996 |title=The story of Athens |date=2006 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=978-1-134-30447-9 |location=London |oclc=1100435996}}</ref>

==Significant people==
* [[1153 BC]]—Death of [[pharaoh]] [[Ramesses III]] of [[Egypt]]
* [[Nebuchadnezzar I]], king of [[Babylon]], is born (approximate date).

==References==
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