Events from 1180 BC

Destruction of Troy VIIa - archaeological layer possibly matching Homeric Troy, city burned

Ramesses III records Sea Peoples confederation - Peleset (Philistines), Tjeker, Shekelesh, Denyen, Weshesh attack Egypt by land and sea

Palladium stolen from Troy - sacred statue of Athena, Greeks steal it (or Aeneas saves it), Troy falls because it lost divine protection