title: 1290s BC
text: # 1290s BC
  
  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. New Kingdom.
  * 1292 BC—End of the Eighteenth dynasty of Egypt, start of the Nineteenth Dynasty.
  * 1292 BC—The coronation of Ramesses I.
  * Egyptian-Hittite Wars, c.1294 B.C.
  
  ## Significant people
  
  * Ramesses I – Pharaoh of the Nineteenth Dynasty of Egypt
  * Shalmaneser I, king of Assyria, born (approximate date).
  * Ramesses the Great, pharaoh of Egypt, born (approximate date).
  