may 9, 1185 BC - ANCHOR Historical: Trojan War/Fall of Troy

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Chronological Framework of Ancient History. 3: Anchor Points of Ancient History
Ken Griffith and Darrell K. White, Independent Scholars, Middletown, Virginia, USA 22645

Most ancient chroniclers place the destruction of Troy at 1184/1183 B.C. (Robertson 1788, 112–114). Eratosthenes, Dionysius Argivus, Cato the Elder, Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Diodorus Siculus, and Tatian make it 407 years before the first Olympiad; Eusebius, Apollodorus, and Solinus, make it 408 years from the fall of Troy to the first Olympiad; and seven other chroniclers make Troy’s fall to be about this time. Four hundred and eight years added to 776/775 B.C. yields 1184/1183 B.C. for the fall of Troy.

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EGYPTIAN CHRONOLOGY THROUGH ASTRONOMICALLY DATED SYNCHRONISMS by Gerard Gertoux

The violent crisis that hit the eastern Mediterranean causing the ruin of the great empires of the Bronze Age, of which the Trojan War is the most famous episode, is exactly dated year 8 of Ramses III. The temple of Ramses III at Medinet Habu contains an account of this victory over the Sea Peoples. The identification of these peoples as their reasons for migration are poorly understood, however, these events are precisely dated. The great Alexandrian scholar Eratosthenes (276-193), for example, dated the Trojan War in 1184 BCE. This destruction, dated in year 8 of Ramesses III, coincides with the fall of the Hittite Empire in year 2 of Meli-Shipak because the last texts from Emar are dated [-]/VI2/2 and 6/VII/[2] of Meli-Shipak (Cohen, Singer: 2006, 134). As year 2 of Meli-Shipak is dated in 1185 BCE, Ramses III's accession has to be dated in 1192 BCE (= 1185 +8 – 2 +1).

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Dicaearchus of Messana states the fall of Troy occurred 306 years prior to the first olympiad; 776 + 306 = 1182

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