1100s BC (decade)

The 1100s BC is a decade which lasted from 1109 BC to 1100 BC.

Millennium
2nd millennium BC
Centuries
Decades
Years
  • 1109 BC
  • 1108 BC
  • 1107 BC
  • 1106 BC
  • 1105 BC
  • 1104 BC
  • 1103 BC
  • 1102 BC
  • 1101 BC
  • 1100 BC
Categories
  • Deaths
  • 1104 BC—Foundation of Cadiz, Spain.[1][2]
  • c. 1100 BC—Maya Calendar counts time from this point.
  • 1100 BC—Tiglath-Pileser I of Assyria conquers the Hittites.
  • c. 1100 BC—The Dorians invade Ancient Greece.
  • c. 1100 BC—Mycenaean era ends with the destruction of that civilization. The collapse of Mycenaean dominance starts.
  • c. 1100 BC—Late Minoan culture ends.
  • c. 1100 BC—Greek Dark Ages begin.
  • c. 1100 BC—Beginning of the proto-Villanovan culture in northern Italy.
  • c. 1100 BC—The New Kingdom in Egypt comes to an end.
  • c. 1100 BC—Shang Dynasty ends in China.
  • c. 1100 BC—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.

References
  1. Strabo, Geographica 3.5.5
  2. Pseudo Scymnus or Pausanias of Damascus, Circuit of the Earth, 160-164
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