1290s BC

Template:Short description The 1290s BC is a decade which lasted from 1299 BC to 1290 BC. Template:Decadebox BC

Events and trends

• c. 1295 BC–1186 BC–Great Temple of Amun, Karnak, is built in the New Kingdom of Egypt.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• c. 1294 BC–Egyptian–Hittite Wars.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• 1292 BC—Coronation of Pharaoh Ramesses I of Egypt marks the end of the Eighteenth Dynsasty and start of the Nineteenth Dynasty of Egypt.<ref>Jürgen von Beckerath, Chronologie des Äegyptischen Pharaonischen (Mainz: Phillip von Zabern, 1997), p.190.</ref>

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

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