1150s BC

Template:Short description Template:Refimprove The 1150s BC is a decade which lasted from 1159 BC to 1150 BC. Template:Decadebox BC

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), 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>Template:Cite book</ref><ref name=ARE>Template:Cite book</ref><ref>Template:Cite book</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, King of Athens and veteran of the Trojan War, dies after a reign of 33 years and is succeeded by his son Oxyntes.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>

Significant people

• 1153 BC—Death of pharaoh Ramesses III of Egypt
• Nebuchadnezzar I, king of Babylon, is born (approximate date).