1290s BC

The 1290s BC is a decade that lasted from 1299 BC to 1290 BC.

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

Significant people Ramesses I, Egyptian pharaoh, crowned. Shalmaneser I, king of Assyria, born (approximate date). Ramesses II ("the Great"), Egyptian pharaoh, born (approximate date).

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