13th century BC c.

Formally, the 13th century BC began on January 1, 1300 B.C. C. and ended on December 31, 1201 a. c.

Events

• 1300 B.C.: Chinese king Pán Gēng moves the capital of the Shang dynasty to Yin.
• 1300 BC: the culture of the urn fields arises
• 1300 B.C.: in Poverty Point (Luisiana) the locals begin to build huge works on land and stone mountains.
• 1300 BC: the frigids destroy the Hittites.
• 1300 BC: the Amorites take Canaan away from the Hittites.
• 1300 BC: the iliters appear.
• 1300 BC: The Ammonites are established in Jordan.
• 1300 B.C.: In the Dead Sea Idumea is founded.
• 1300 to 1100 BC: in Micenas, a Greek potter makes the vessel of the warrior. It is currently at the National Archaeological Museum in Athens.
• 1300 to 1200 BC: the treasure of Atreo is built (Micenas, Greece). It will be excavated by Christos Stamatakis in 1878.
• 1300 to 1200 BC: the palace is built in Pylos.
• 1282 B.C.: in Megara (Greece) dies Pandon II, legendary king of Athens after 25 years of reign. He was forced by Methion to exile himself from Athens. Aegneo happens on the throne while his other sons reconquer the rest of Atica: Nissos reigns in Megara, Lycos in Eubea and Pallas in southern Atica.
• h. 1279 B.C.: In Egypt, Ramses II became Pharaoh. It is the most influential of the nineteenth dynasty.
• h. 1279 B.C.: The town of Troy VI is destroyed (the sixth stratum found on the hill where the city was rebuilt several times); it is speculated that it is the people that—according to the Iliad of Homer—was destroyed by the Greeks after a place of ten years.
• h. 1279 − 1213 B.C.: In Abu Simbel (Nubia) the temple of Ramses II is built (nineteenth). A mural painting of Queen Nefertari was made making an offering to the goddess Isis in the tomb of Nefertari. The grave is located in the Valley of the Queens.
• h. 1279 − 1213 BC: The temple of Ammon, Mut and Jonsu is built in Thebes (Egypt).
• 1278 B.C.: in Egypt, Ramses II defeats the shiardana sea pirates.
• 1274 B.C.: (another date given is 1285 B.C.) Ramses II leads the Battle of Kadesh. In Syria, the Egyptians and the Hittites wage the considered greatest battle of antiquity chariots (more than 5000 chariots). After the battle of Kadesh continued for about 15 years with border wars that ended with the signature of the oldest known peace treaty: the Qadesh Treatywhich also established an alliance of Hittites and Egyptians against the Assyrian Empire.
• 1274 B.C.: In the Assyrian Empire, Salmanasar I became king.
• 1270 B.C.: Assyria conquers Mittani.
• 1250 B.C.: The Mesopotamia expands Assyria.
• 1250 B.C.: Assyria tries to attack the houses.
• 1250 B.C.: The famous Lions Gate is built in Micenas.
• 1250 B.C.: on the Iberian peninsula begins the end of the Bronze Age in that region. Indigenous culture Cogotas I.1
• 1250 B.C.: In Mexico the Olmeca civilization begins.
• 1250 BC: in Jericho (Palestinian)32°00′N 35°30′E / 32.0, 35.5) is recorded an earthquake of magnitude 6.5 in the seismological scale of Richter.
• 1235 B.C.: in Frigia Muere King Tungot
• 1223 B.C.: in Ugarit (now Syria) an astrologer writes the date of a total eclipse. The tablet with registration will be found in 1948.
• 1213/1212 BC: In Egypt the Pharaoh Ramses II dies.
• 1213 B.C.: Theseus, legendary king of Athens, is deposed and happens to him Menesteus, great-grandmother of Erecteo and second cousin of the father of Teseus, Aegean. Menesteo is supposed to be assisted by Castor and Polideuco de Esparta, who wants to claim her sister Helena from her first husband Teseo. The last seek refuge in Skyros, whose King Licomedes is an ancient amino and ally. Licomedes, however, considers his visitor a threat to the throne and proceeds to kill him. Other accounts place these events a decade later, in the years 1200 a. C.
• 1219 B.C.: The Frigios Arrebatan Canaan to the Amorites
• 1200 B.C.: In Peru, the Chavín culture begins.
• 1200 BC: In Anatolia the power of the Hittites collapses with the destruction of their capital, Hattusa.
• 1200 B.C.: In the southern steppes of Russia the cymeriums (conjecture without documenting) begin to be established.
• 1200 B.C.: The first cars appear in Antigua China.
• 1200 B.C.: In ancient China the oldest characters are written.
• 1200 B.C.: Aramaic and Chaldean nomads become a great threat to the former Assyrian and Babylonian empires.
• 1200 BC: Around the Mediterranean and the Middle East there is a massive migration of peoples. See People of the Sea.
• 1200 BC: It emerges as La Chorrera culture, from the Machalilla culture in Ecuador.
• In Greece dies Cécrope II, legendary king of Athens, after reigning 40 years. It's happened by his son Pandian II. This was exiled by the sons of Methion (brother or nephew of Cécrops II). Pandon fled to Megara, where he married the king's daughter and finally inherited the throne. After his death, the sons of Pandon II returned to Athens and cast the sons of Methion.
• In India, the legendary Subrata king of the BrijadRata dynasty ascends to the throne.
• In the present Jordan the Midianites appear.

• Century in which tradition says that Moses would have written the Ten Commandments of the Hebrew people.
• In ancient Greece dorries appear.
• In Fenicia the Philistines appear
• In Pilos (Greek Court) the Palace of Nestor (a mythical king who is part of the Argonauts, and who participated in the mythical war of Troy). In 1939 their ruins were discovered, and about a thousand clay tablets were found written in Greek linear writing B: there was no mention of King Nestor.

Relevant people

• Tukulti-Ninurta I (1243-1207 B.C.), Assyrian king, who led the middle empire to one of his greatest moments of glory.
• Merneptah, Pharaoh of the nineteenth Egyptian dynasty between 1212 and 1202 a. C.
• Amenmeses, Pharaoh of the 19th dynasty of Egypt between 1202 and 1199 a. C.
• Moses, an important figure for Judaism, Christianity, Islam and Bahaism, where he is venerated as a prophet, legislator and spiritual leader.