The 1290s BC is a decade which lasted from 1299 BC to 1290 BC.

Events and trends

• c. 1295 BC–1186 BC–Great Temple of Amun, Karnak, is built in the New Kingdom of Egypt.^[1]
• c. 1294 BC–Egyptian–Hittite Wars.^[2]
• 1292 BC—Coronation of Pharaoh Ramesses I of Egypt marks the end of the Eighteenth Dynsasty and start of the Nineteenth Dynasty of Egypt.^[3]

Significant people

• Ramesses I, Egyptian pharaoh, crowned.
• Shalmaneser I, king of Assyria, born (approximate date).
• Ramesses II ("the Great"), Egyptian pharaoh, born (approximate date).