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Hittites

Anatolian ethnic group who built kingdoms at Kussara & Hattusa (c. 2000-700 BCE)

11 dated entries naming Hittites, drawn from 11 separate years between 1620 BCE and 1100 BCE. Nothing here is written by us: each line is the sentence a Wikipedia year article used, and the link beside it opens the exact revision.

Also written as Hittite Empire in the source articles; Wikipedia redirects those to the same subject, so their entries are on this page.

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17th century BC

  • 1620 BCE1620 BC—Mursili I becomes King of the Hittite Empire (middle chronology).source

16th century BC

  • 1600 BCEc. 1600 BC—Hittites establish capital at Hattusa (near modern Boğazkale, Turkey).source
  • 1595 BCEca. 1595 BC—Mursili I, king of the Hittites, sacks Babylon. This brings an end to the rule of the descendants of Hammurabi in that kingdom.source

14th century BC

  • 1344 BCEc. 1344 BC–King Šuppiluliuma I of the Hittites invades the Anatolian heartland and launches two campaigns against the Mitanni. This culminates in the sack of the Mitanni capital Washukanni.source
  • 1324 BCE1324 BC – The Hittite Empire prince Zannanza was killed on his way to Egypt at the request of the Egyptian queen Ankhesenamun to become her husband and king of Egypt.source

13th century BC

  • 1274 BCE1274 BC—The Battle of Kadesh (or Battle of Qadesh) in Syria, regarded as the largest (5,000–6,000) chariot vs. chariot battle in antiquity. The end of the battle is followed by some 15 years of border warfare ended by the signing of the earliest known peace treaty between the Hittites and Egyptians, the Treaty of Kadesh.source
  • 1263 BCEc. 1263 BC—Ramses II, king of ancient Egypt, and Hattusilis III, king of the Hittites, sign the earliest known peace treaty.source
  • 1259 BCEc. 1259 BC—Ramesses II makes a peace agreement with the Hittites (other date is 1263 BC).source

12th century BC

  • 1200 BCEc. 1200 BC: Collapse of Hittite power in Anatolia with the destruction of their capital Hattusa.source
  • 1180 BCEc. 1180 BC—Invaders raze Hattusa, causing the collapse of the Hittite Empire.source

11th century BC

  • 1100 BCE1100 BC—Tiglath-Pileser I of Assyria conquers the Hittites.source

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