1250s BC
| Millennium: | 2nd millennium BC |
| Centuries: | 14th century BC – 13th century BC – 12th century BC |
| Decades: | 1280s BC 1270s BC 1260s BC – 1250s BC – 1240s BC 1230s BC 1220s BC |
| Years: | 1259 BC 1258 BC 1257 BC 1256 BC 1255 BC 1254 BC 1253 BC 1252 BC 1251 BC 1250 BC |
| 1250s BC-related categories: |
Deaths |
The Lion Gate at Mycenae (full view) – showing the stepped ramp through it
Events and trends
- c. 1259 BC—Ramesses II makes 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.
- 1250 BC—Wu Ding emperor of Shang Dynasty to 1192 BC.
- c. 1250 BC—Lion Gate, Mycenae, Greece, are made. Citadel walls are built.
Significant people
- Wu Ding Shang Dynasty emperor
Fiction
- S.M. Stirling's Nantucket series is set in Bronze Age era, circa the 1250s BC.
Notes
- ↑ "Annular: -1250 Sep 07". eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov/. NASA Five Millenium Canon of Solar Eclipses. Retrieved 30 December 2015.
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