14th century BC

Template:Short description Template:Redirect Template:Centurybox The 14th century BC was the century that lasted from the year 1400 BC until 1301 BC.

Events

1350 – 1250 BC: the Bajío phase of the San Lorenzo site in Mexico; large public buildings are constructed.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
Pastoral nomadism develops in the steppes of Central Asia; cattle are watched on horseback.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>

1400 – 1250 BC: the heyday of the Phoenician city of Ugarit.<ref name="Papin">Template:Cite book</ref> A written alphabet is attested by Ugaritic texts.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
c. 1380 – 1336 BC: the reign of Šuppiluliuma I, who leads the Hittite Empire to its peak.<ref name="GRoux">Template:Cite book</ref> Šuppiluliuma I conquers the weakened Hurrian kingdom of Mitanni in the second half of the century. Assyria is emancipated under Ashur-uballit I.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
1375 BC: Joshua, leader of the Israelites, from the Hebrew Bible, is likely to have died around this time.
1372 – 1350 BC: Akhetaton (Amarna) is constructed as the ephemeral capital of the pharaoh Akhenaten and dedicated to the sun god Aten. It is abandoned a few years after Akhenaten's death.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
c. 1325 BC: Pharaoh Tutankhamun dies and is buried in a richly furnished tomb in the Valley of the Kings.<ref name="GRoux"/>
c. 1320 – 1295 BC: the sinking of the Uluburun shipwreck in the Mediterranean Sea south of modern-day Kaş.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
Lycian pirates from southwest Anatolia raid the kingdom of Alashiya in Cyprus. They are employed as mercenaries by the Hittites and take part in the Battle of Kadesh.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
An Ugaritic patera, with its embossed decoration in concentric zones and hunting scenes, reveals an exceptional level in goldsmithing.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>

c. 1400 – 1300 BC:
- A glacial rise is attested by the peat bog of the glacier of Tyrol.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
- Phase III A of the Greek Bronze Age.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> Contacts with the Mycenaean civilization are established at Thapsos, Syracuse, Scoglio del Tonno in the Gulf of Taranto, and Ischia on the Tyrrhenian coast.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref><ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
1400 – 1370 BC: phase III A1 of the Late Helladic period in Greece.<ref name="Feuer">Template:Cite book</ref> Palaces are constructed in Tiryns and Pylos.<ref name="Poursat">Template:Cite book</ref> Linear B, which transcribes an archaic form of Greek, appears in the palace of Knossos at the end of Phase III A1 of the Late Minoan period.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
1370 – 1340 BC: phase III A2 of the Late Helladic period in Greece.<ref name="Feuer"/>
1340 – 1190 BC: phase III B of the Late Helladic period in Greece.<ref name="Feuer"/> Beehive tombs are constructed in Epirus and Thessaly,<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> and a palace is constructed in Athens.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
1380 – 1120 BC: a Mycenaean sanctuary is built in Phylakopi.<ref name="Poursat"/>
c. 1370 BC: the Hagia Triada Sarcophagus is created in Crete.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
c. 1350 – 1330 BC: the reconstruction of the palace and Cyclopean enclosure at Mycenae, then at its peak under the reign of the legendary king and queen Perseus and Andromeda.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>