1250s BC
Template:Short description The 1250s BC is a decade which lasted from 1259 BC to 1250 BC. Template:Decadebox BC
Events and trends
[edit]- Template:Circa—Ramesses II makes a peace agreement with the Hittites (other date is 1263 BC).
- Template:Circa—The Exodus as depicted in the Bible.
- 1251 BC—September 7, a solar eclipse<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> on this date might mark the birth of legendary Heracles at Thebes, Greece.
- 1250 BC—Traditional date of the beginning of the Trojan War.
- Template:Circa—Wu Ding, king of the Shang dynasty, and earliest archaeologically confirmed Chinese monarch begins his reign.
- Template:Circa—Earliest surviving writing from Ancient China.
- Template:Circa—Chariots appear in Ancient China.
- Template:Circa—Lion Gate, Mycenae, Greece, are made. Citadel walls are built.
- Template:Circa—Papyrus of Ani created, during the 19th dynasty of the New Kingdom of Egypt.
- Template:Circa—Tawagalawa letter sent from a Hittite king to a king of the Ahhiyawa
Significant people
[edit]- Wu Ding, king of the Shang dynasty.
- Sanchuniathon, Phoenician writer, is born (approximate date).
Fiction
[edit]- S.M. Stirling's Nantucket series is set in Bronze Age era, circa the 1250s BC.