13th century BC

(14th century BC – 13th century BC – 12th century BC – other centuries)

(1300s BC – 1290s BC – 1280s BC – 1270s BC – 1260s BC – 1250s BC – 1240s BC – 1230s BC – 1220s BC – 1210s BC – 1200s BC – other decades)

(3rd millennium BC – 2nd millennium BC – 1st millennium BC)

Events

• 1295 BC – End of the Eighteenth dynasty of Egypt, start of the Nineteenth Dynasty
• 1285 BC – Battle of Kadesh, Rameses II almost defeated by Hittites.
• 1269 BC – Ramses II and Hattusilis III, king of the Hittites, sign the earliest known peace treaty.

Significant persons

• Rameses II, pharaoh of Egypt
• Moses (if historical), led Hebrew Exodus (may have been eariler).

Inventions, discoveries, introductions