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• 1126 BC - Thymoetes , legendary King of Athens dies childless after a reign of 8 years. He is succeeded by his designated heir Melanthus of PylosPylos (Greek Πυλος) is the name of a bay and a town on the west coast of the Peloponnese, in the district of Messenia in southern Greece. Pylos was the site of a Bronze Age fortress, and also the site of a battle between A, a fifth-generation descedant of NeleusNeleus was the son of Poseidon and Tyro, brother of Pelias. Tyro was married to Cretheus (with whom she had one son, Aeson) but loved Enipeus, a river god. She pursued Enipeus, who refused her advances. One day, Poseidon, filled with lust for Tyro, disgui who had reportedly assisted him in battle against the BoeotiaBoeotia ( Greek Βοιωτια) was a central area of ancient Greece. The main city was Thebes. Boeotia had significant political importance, owing to its position on the north shore of the Gulf of Corinth, extending westwans.
• Zhou Wu Wang overthrows the ChineseThis article is on the geographic and cultural entity. For other meanings, see China (disambiguation). China ( Traditional Chinese: , Simplified Chinese: , Hanyu Pinyin: Zhongguo, Wade-Giles: Chung-kuo) is a country in continental East Asia with some oute King Zhou Hsin ( Wade-GilesWade-Giles sometimes abbreviated Wade is a Romanization (phonetic notation and transliteration) system for the Chinese language based on Mandarin. It developed from a system produced by Thomas Wade in the mid- 19th century, and reached settled form with H) (Zhou Xin in PinyinPinyin (, pinyin) literally means "join together sounds" (a less literal translation being "phoneticize", "spell" or "transcription") in Chinese and usually refers to Hany pinyin (, literal meaning: " Han language pinyin"), which is a system of romanizati) and founds the Zhou ( PYPinyin (, pinyin) literally means "join together sounds" (a less literal translation being "phoneticize", "spell" or "transcription") in Chinese and usually refers to Hany pinyin (, literal meaning: " Han language pinyin"), which is a system of romanizati) (Chou W-G) Zhou Dynasty (1122 BC - 256 BC).
• 1122 BC - Legendary founding date of the city of Pyongyang.
• ca. 1120 BC - destruction of Troy VIIb₁

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