1250s BC

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

Millennium:	2nd millennium BC
Centuries:	14th century BC 13th century BC 12th century BC
Decades:	1270s BC 1260s BC 1250s BC 1240s BC 1230s BC
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

Events and trends

• 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.
• 1250 BC—Wu Ding emperor of Shang Dynasty to 1192 BC.
• c. 1250 BC: Earliest writing that survived exists in 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.

Significant people

• Wu Ding Shang Dynasty emperor
• Sanchuniathon, Phoenician writer, is born (approximate date).

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.