1290s BC
The 1290s BC is a decade that 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>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation
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- 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 Dynasty 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).