13th century BC - Definition and Overview

(14th century BC - 13th century BC - 12th century BC - other centuries)

(1300s BC - 1290s BC - 1280s BC - 1270s BC - 1260s BC - 1250s BC - 1240s BC - 1230s BC - 1220s BC - 1210s BC - 1200s BC - other decades)

(3rd millennium BC - 2nd millennium BC - 1st millennium BC)

Events

• 1295 BC - End of the Eighteenth dynasty of Egypt, start of the Nineteenth Dynasty
• 1285 BC - Battle of Kadesh, Rameses II almost defeated by Hittites.
• 1269 BC - Ramses II and Hattusilis III, king of the Hittites, sign the earliest known peace treaty.

Significant persons

• Rameses II, pharaoh of Egypt
• Moses (if historical), led Hebrew Exodus (may have been eariler).

Inventions, discoveries, introductions