Minoan palaces destroyed in a natural disaster; Mycenaeans arrive on Crete; earliest example of Linear B text.
Emergence of Mycenaean palace societies.
Highpoint of Mycenaean civilisation.
Possible date for the Trojan War.
Widespread destruction of societies in the eastern Mediterranean; all Mycenaean cities are burnt to the ground and the entire Mycenaean civilisation collapses.
Early Iron Age; dramatic decline in population in the Greek world; migrations of people throughout mainland Greece and across the Aegean Sea; loss of writing.
Elaborate tomb at Lefkandi built.
Four main dialects of ancient Greek by now established in Aegean Greece.
