Timeline Hittites
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Apaliunas was a Hittite god.
(AM, 7/01, p.65)
4,000BC The Hittites settled around
Cappadocia in present day Turkey.
(Smith., 5/95, p.25)
2,000BC The Hittites lived around what is now
Cappadocia, Turkey. They mixed with the already-settled Hatti and were
followed by the Lydians, Phrygians, Byzantines, Romans and Greeks.
(SFEC, 9/14/97, p.T14)
1700-1250 Troy VI, the bronze age settlement of the
site of the Trojan War. The inhabitants probably spoke Luvian, an
Indo-European language related to Hittite.
(Nat. Hist., 4/96, p.49-50)
1595 The Hittites captured Babylon
and retreated. They left the city open to Kassite domination which
lasted about 300 years. They maintained the Sumerian/Babylonian culture
without innovations of their own.
(eawc, p.4)
1450-1300 The Hittite culture reached its highpoint
and dominated the territory North and East of Babylon including Turkey
and northern Palestine. By this time the Hittites have constructed a
mythology with a state pantheon.
(eawc, p.4)
1350BC The 1st recorded smallpox epidemic took place
during an Egyptian-Hittite war. Hittite warriors caught the disease
from Egyptian prisoners. The king and heir were fatally infected and
the empire fell apart.
(SFC, 10/19/01, p.A17)(NW, 10/14/02, p.46)
1347-1338BC Tutankhamun, Pharaoh of Egypt, ruled for
nine years. He was followed by King Ay, and then a soldier named
Horemhab, whom some regard as the last Pharaoh of the Eighteenth
Dynasty while others think he was the founder of the Nineteenth.
Horemhab is thought to have prevented the dynastic marriage of
Ankhesnamun [Ankhesenamen], the widow of Tutankhamun, to prince
Zananza, son of the Hittite king, Suppilliliumas. Documents discovered
at the Hittite capital of Boghaz-Koy in Turkey prove beyond doubt that
the young queen was writing to Suppililiumas imploring him to send her
one of his sons so that she might make him King of Egypt. It is
suspected that the young prince was killed on his was to Egypt under
the orders of Ay or Horemhab. Howard Carter discovered the tomb of
Tutankhamen.
(L.C.-W.P.p.107-110)(NG, May 1985, R. Caputo,
p.598)(SFC, 8/5/96, p.A10)
1295-1272BCE The Hittite king Muwatalli II signed a
treaty with Alaksandu, ruler of the Arzawa land known as Wilusa, which
became Wilios in Bronze Age Greece and then slurred to Ilios for
Homer’s Iliad.
(Arch, 5/04, p.40)
1286BC The Hittites fought off the invading
Egyptians. This reflected the power gained from trading metals abundant
in Turkey.
(eawc, p.5)
1285BC Battle of Kadesh, in the fifth year of his
reign Ramesses moved to meet and destroy the forces of the Hittite
king, Muwatallis, grandson of Suppililiumas. Here some 70,000-100,000
armed men clashed in fury... The battle lasted two days... and was
decisive in that the Hittite advanced no further.
(L.C.-W.P.p.116-119)
1267-1237 King Hattusili III ruled the Hittites. He
wrote a letter to the king of Ahhiyawa (thought to be Mycenaean Greeks)
and mentioned that Wilusa was once a bone of contention.
(Arch, 5/04, p.40)
1192BC Ramessu III beat back a more formidable
attack. The inscription describing this war was engraved on the second
pylon of the temple of Medinet Habu. The inscription describes how the
northerners were disturbed, and proceeded to move eastward and
southward, swamping in turn the land of the Hittites, Carchemish,
Arvad, Cyprus, Syria, and other places of the same region. The Hittites
and North Syrians had been so crippled by them that Ramessu took the
opportunity to extend the frontier of Egyptian territory northward...
the twofold ravaging of Syria left it weakened and opened the door for
the colonization of its coast-lands by the beaten remnant of the
invading army.
(R.M.-P.H.C.p.23)
1185BC The Hittite empire fell to the “Sea People,”
an invading group coming from the west whose precise identity is
unknown.
(eawc, p.5)
900-840BC The Assyrians expanded their empire to the
west. By 840 they conquered Syria and Turkey, territory that had
formerly belonged to the Hittites.
(eawc, p.6)
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