1290s BC

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

Millennium:	2nd millennium BC
Centuries:	14th century BC 13th century BC 12th century BC
Decades:	1310s BC 1300s BC 1290s BC 1280s BC 1270s BC
Years:	1299 BC 1298 BC 1297 BC 1296 BC 1295 BC 1294 BC 1293 BC 1292 BC 1291 BC 1290 BC
Categories:	Deaths

Events and trends

• c. 1295 BC–1186 BC–Great Temple of Amun, Karnak, is built. New Kingdom.
• 1292 BC—End of the Eighteenth dynasty of Egypt, start of the Nineteenth Dynasty.
• 1292 BC—The coronation of Ramesses I.
• Egyptian-Hittite Wars, c.1294 B.C.

Significant people

• Ramesses I – Pharaoh of the Nineteenth Dynasty of Egypt
• Shalmaneser I, king of Assyria, born (approximate date).
• Ramesses the Great, pharaoh of Egypt, born (approximate date).