1250s BC
{{short description|Decade from 1259 BC to 1250 BC}}
The 1250s BC is a decade which lasted from 1259 BC to 1250 BC.
{{Decadebox BC|125}}
Image:Lion Gate at Mycenae.JPG at Mycenae (full view) – showing the stepped ramp through it]]
Events and trends
- {{Circa|1259 BC}}—Ramesses II makes a peace agreement with the Hittites (other date is 1263 BC).
- {{Circa|1258 BC}}—The Exodus as depicted in the Bible.
- 1251 BC—September 7, a solar eclipse{{cite web|title=Annular: -1250 Sep 07|url=http://eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov/5MCSEmap/-1299--1200/-1250-09-07.gif|website=eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov/|publisher=NASA Five Millennium Canon of Solar Eclipses|access-date=30 December 2015}} on this date might mark the birth of legendary Heracles at Thebes, Greece.
- 1250 BC—Traditional date of the beginning of the Trojan War.
- {{Circa|1250 BC}}—Wu Ding, king of the Shang dynasty, and earliest archaeologically confirmed Chinese monarch begins his reign.
- {{Circa|1250 BC}}—Earliest surviving writing from Ancient China.
- {{Circa|1250 BC}}—Chariots appear in Ancient China.
- {{Circa|1250 BC}}—Lion Gate, Mycenae, Greece, are made. Citadel walls are built.
- {{Circa|1250 BC}}—Papyrus of Ani created, during the 19th dynasty of the New Kingdom of Egypt.
- {{Circa|1250 BC}}—Tawagalawa letter sent from a Hittite king to a king of the Ahhiyawa
Significant people
- Wu Ding, king of the Shang dynasty.
- Sanchuniathon, Phoenician writer, is born (approximate date).
Fiction
- S.M. Stirling's Nantucket series is set in Bronze Age era, circa the 1250s BC.