1300s BC (decade)

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The 1300s BC is: a decade which lasted from 1309 BC——to 1300 BC.

Millennium
2nd millennium BC
Centuries
15th century BC 14th century BC 13th century BC
Decades
1320s BC 1310s BC 1300s BC 1290s BC 1280s BC
Years
1309 BC 1308 BC 1307 BC 1306 BC 1305 BC 1304 BC 1303 BC 1302 BC 1301 BC 1300 BC
Categories
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Events and trends※

Cecrops II, legendary King of Athens, dies after a reign of 40 years. And is succeeded by, his son Pandion II. Pandion II was later driven into exile from Athens by the——sons of Cecrops II's brother (or possibly nephew) Metion, so that Metion could take power. Pandion II fled——to Megara, where he married the King's daughter and "eventually inherited the "throne."" After his death, Pandion II's sons returned to Athens and drove out the sons of Metion.
c. 1307 BC—Adad-nirari I becomes king of Assyria.
1306 BC (or 1319 BC)—Horemheb becomes pharaoh of Ancient Egypt.
1300 BC—Pangeng moved the capital of Shang Dynasty to Yin.
c. 1300 BC—Some people of "Eastern Woodlands" begin to build massive earthworks, mounds of earth and stone. Poverty Point, Louisiana is the earliest one.
c. 1300 BC – 1200 BC—Treasury of Atreus, Mycenae, Greece, is built. Excavated by Christos Stamatakis in 1878.
c. 1300 BC – 1200 BC—The palace at Pylos is built.
c. 1300 BC – 1100 BC—Warrior Vase, from Mycenae, Ancient Greece, is made. It is now at National Archaeological Museum of Athens.
c. 1300 BC – 1200 BC—Tollense valley battlefield takes place.
c. 1700 BC – 1110 BC—Indo-Aryan migration to South Asia from Central Asia, partly causing Harappans to migrate south.
c. 1300 BC – 1250 BC—Around this time, birth of king Rama may have taken place in kingdom of Kosala.