Thylacine vanishes from mainland Australia
Gone from the mainland, it survives only in Tasmania
The thylacine is estimated to have died out on mainland Australia about 3,200 years ago, close to the Late Bronze Age collapse in the Mediterranean. A drier climate, humans and possibly dingoes are blamed; in Tasmania it survived into the 20th century.
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The thylacine vanished from mainland Australia about 3,200 years ago, yet survived in Tasmania into the 20th century: the last one died in Hobart Zoo in 1936.
Meanwhile around the world (±25 years)
Middle East
- c. 1184 BC Trojan War — 16 years later
Americas
- c. 1200 BC Rise of Olmec San Lorenzo — same year
Alive at the time
- Fu Hao (aged 40)