1250s BC

The 1250s BC is a decade which lasted from 1259 BC to 1250 BC.

Millennium: 2nd millennium BC
Centuries:
Decades:
Years:
  • 1259 BC
  • 1258 BC
  • 1257 BC
  • 1256 BC
  • 1255 BC
  • 1254 BC
  • 1253 BC
  • 1252 BC
  • 1251 BC
  • 1250 BC
Categories:
  • Deaths
The Lion Gate at Mycenae (full view) – showing the stepped ramp through it
  • c. 1259 BC—Ramesses II makes a peace agreement with the Hittites (other date is 1263 BC).
  • c. 1258 BC—The Exodus as depicted in the Bible.
  • 1251 BC—September 7, a solar eclipse[1] on this date might mark the birth of legendary Heracles at Thebes, Greece.
  • 1250 BC—Traditional date of the beginning of the Trojan War.
  • c. 1250 BC—Wu Ding, king of the Shang dynasty, and earliest archaeologically confirmed Chinese monarch begins his reign.
  • c. 1250 BC—Earliest surviving writing from Ancient China.
  • c. 1250 BC—Chariots appear in Ancient China.
  • c. 1250 BC—Lion Gate, Mycenae, Greece, are made. Citadel walls are built.
  • c. 1250 BC—Papyrus of Ani created, during the 19th dynasty of the New Kingdom of Egypt.
  • c. 1250 BC-Tawagalawa letter sent from a Hittite king to a king of the Ahhiyawa

Significant people

Fiction
  • S.M. Stirling's Nantucket series is set in Bronze Age era, circa the 1250s BC.

Notes
  1. "Annular: -1250 Sep 07". eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov/. NASA Five Millennium Canon of Solar Eclipses. Retrieved 30 December 2015.
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