1290s BC

The 1290s BC is a decade that lasted from 1299 BC to 1290 BC.

  • c. 1295 BC1186 BC–Great Temple of Amun, Karnak, is built in the New Kingdom of Egypt.[1]
  • c. 1294 BC–Egyptian–Hittite Wars.[2]
  • 1292 BC—Coronation of Pharaoh Ramesses I of Egypt marks the end of the Eighteenth Dynasty and start of the Nineteenth Dynasty of Egypt.[3]

Significant people

  • Ramesses I, Egyptian pharaoh, crowned.
  • Shalmaneser I, king of Assyria, born (approximate date).
  • Ramesses II ("the Great"), Egyptian pharaoh, born (approximate date).

References

  1. ^ White, Jamila. "Wonders: City of Jebel Barkal - Black Kingdoms of the Nile episode". PBS. Retrieved 11 August 2012.
  2. ^ Lanning, Michael Lee (April 2005). Battle 100: The Stories Behind History's Most Influential Battles. ISBN 9781402224751.
  3. ^ Jürgen von Beckerath, Chronologie des Äegyptischen Pharaonischen (Mainz: Phillip von Zabern, 1997), p.190.