1250 BCE c. 1250 BC—Wu Ding, king of the Shang dynasty, and earliest archaeologically confirmed Chinese monarch begins his reign. c. 1250 BC—Lion Gate, Mycenae, Greece, are made. Citadel walls are built. c. 1250 BC—Tawagalawa letter sent from a Hittite king to a king of the Ahhiyawa.
In the 13th century BC .
c. 1250 BC—Tawagalawa letter sent from a Hittite king to a king of the Ahhiyawasource 1250 BC—Traditional date of the beginning of the Trojan War.source c. 1250 BC—Chariots appear in Ancient China.source Technology & Infrastructure c. 1250 BC—Lion Gate, Mycenae, Greece, are made. Citadel walls are built.source Science & Discovery c. 1250 BC—Wu Ding, king of the Shang dynasty, and earliest archaeologically confirmed Chinese monarch begins his reign.source c. 1250 BC—Earliest surviving writing from Ancient China.source c. 1250 BC—Papyrus of Ani created, during the 19th dynasty of the New Kingdom of Egypt.source Nearby 1251 BCE–1242 BCE 7 of 7 sourced entries shown. Every line above is quoted from 1250s BC on English Wikipedia, revision 1307151235, retrieved 2026-09-06. Nothing on this page is written by us and nothing is generated: the sentences are the source’s own, so a claim you doubt can be checked against the exact revision it came from. Text is reused under CC BY-SA 4.0 .