Century · 1300 BCE – 1201 BCE
The world in the 13th century BCE
From 1300 BCE to 1201 BCE the atlas holds 56 states standing at some time, 14 of them founded in it - Ancient Greece and Magadha the best known - and 5 ending in it. 6 wars, risings, treaties, discoveries and other events began - Trojan War, Battle of Kadesh and Egyptian–Hittite peace treaty the best known of the events; 27 people were born.
A century here is counted as Wikidata counts it, 1300 BCE to 1201 BCE, and holds every row that began in it, however coarsely dated.
What began in the 13th century BCE
By decade first - wars and battles in red, risings, regime changes and massacres beside them, everything else in grey - then by kind, the best known first.
Wars and battles 5
- Trojan War · battle · 1258 – 1180 BCE
- Battle of Kadesh · battle · 1274 BCE
- Tollense valley battlefield · battle · 1250 BCE
- Battle of Nihriya · battle · 1237 BCE
- Siege of Dapur · battle · 1271 BCE
Treaties 1
- Egyptian–Hittite peace treaty · treaty · 1259 BCE
States founded and fallen
Founded 14
- Ancient Greece · state · 1201 BCE – 600 CE
- Magadha · state · 1201 – 345 BCE
- Nineteenth Dynasty of Egypt · state · 1292 – 1189 BCE
- Alba Longa · state · 1201 – 673 BCE
- Ancient Israel and Judah · state · 1201 – 586 BCE
- Kuru kingdom · state · 1201 – 901 BCE
- Aram-Damascus · state · 1201 – 734 BCE
- Neo-Hittite states · state · 1201 – 701 BCE
- Diauehi · state · 1201 – 760 BCE
- Tarḫuntašša · state · 1295 – 1201 BCE
- Gurgum · state · 1201 – 801 BCE
- Deng · state · 1201 – 678 BCE
- E · state · 1201 – 863 BCE
- Pundravardhana · state · 1280 – 345 BCE
Ended 5
- Mitanni · state · 1650 – 1260 BCE
- Eighteenth Dynasty of Egypt · state · 1550 – 1295 BCE
- Hayasa-Azzi · state · 1502 – 1202 BCE
- Tarḫuntašša · state · 1295 – 1201 BCE
- Kikata Kingdom · state · 1700 – 1300 BCE
Born in the 13th century BCE
The best known first, by how many Wikipedias write about them.
- Ramesses III · ruler · 1217 – 1155 BCE
- Tiglath-Pileser I · ruler · 1201 – 1076 BCE
- Nebuchadnezzar I · ruler · 1201 – 1104 BCE
- Ramesses IV · statesperson · 1201 – 1156 BCE
- Ramesses XI · ruler · 1201 – 1077 BCE
- Ramesses V · ruler · 1201 – 1145 BCE
- Tausret · statesperson · 1202 – 1189 BCE
- Smendes · statesperson · 1201 – 1052 BCE
- Ramesses VIII · ruler · 1201 – 1129 BCE
- Amenmesse · statesperson · 1251 – 1200 BCE
- Di Yi · ruler · 1201 – 1076 BCE
- Wu Yi of Shang · ruler · 1201 – 1195 BCE
- Ashur-bel-kala · ruler · 1201 – 1056 BCE
- Pinedjem I · ruler · 1201 – 1031 BCE
- Wen Wu Ding · ruler · 1201 – 1102 BCE
- Geng Ding · ruler · 1201 – 1199 BCE
- Herihor · ruler · 1201 – 1081 BCE
- Ashur-resh-ishi I · ruler · 1201 BCE
- Asharid-apal-Ekur · ruler · 1201 – 1074 BCE
- Enlil-nadin-apli · ruler · 1201 – 1101 BCE
- Ninurta-tukulti-Ashur · ruler · 1201 BCE
- Mutakkil-Nusku · ruler · 1201 BCE
- Itti-Marduk-balatu · ruler · 1201 – 1132 BCE
- Ninurta-nadin-shumi · ruler · 1201 BCE
and 3 more in the atlas.
States of the 13th century BCE
Every state that stood at some time in the 13th century BCE, by region, the best known first.
Europe5 states
- Ancient Greece · 1201 BCE – 600 CE
- Minoan civilization · 3300 – 1100 BCE
- Mycenaean Greece · 1600 – 1100 BCE
- Colchis · 1701 – 164 BCE
- Alba Longa · 1201 – 673 BCE
Middle East and North Africa31 states
- Ancient Egypt · 4001 – 30 BCE
- Babylon · 1894 BCE – 1 CE
- Troy · 3000 BCE – 500 CE
- Assyria · 2025 – 609 BCE
- Phoenicia · 2500 – 64 BCE
- Babylonia · 1901 – 539 BCE
- Hittites · 1600 – 1151 BCE
- Elam · 2700 – 539 BCE
- Mitanni · 1650 – 1260 BCE
- New Kingdom of Egypt · 1550 – 1070 BCE
- Ugarit · 6001 – 1191 BCE
- Kingdom of Kush · 2180 BCE – 350 CE
and 19 more; every state of Middle East and North Africa.
Sub-Saharan Africa1 state
- Land of Punt · 2401 – 1069 BCE
South Asia3 states
- Magadha · 1201 – 345 BCE
- Kuru kingdom · 1201 – 901 BCE
- Pundravardhana · 1280 – 345 BCE
East and Southeast Asia5 states
- Shang dynasty · 1600 – 1046 BCE
- Old Chosŏn · 2333 – 108 BCE
- Shu · 2001 – 316 BCE
- Tamna · 2337 BCE – 1404 CE
- Qi (Henan) · 1601 – 445 BCE
Americas and Oceania2 states
- Maya civilization · 2001 BCE – 1521 CE
- Zapotec civilization · 6701 BCE – 1201 CE
Location unknown9 states
- Kassites · 1531 – 1155 BCE
- Diauehi · 1201 – 760 BCE
- Isuwa · 1501 – 824 BCE
- Deng · 1201 – 678 BCE
- E · 1201 – 863 BCE
- Gandhara (Mahabharata) · 1501 – 535 BCE
- Brihadratha dynasty · 1700 – 682 BCE
- Kikata Kingdom · 1700 – 1300 BCE
- Anarta kingdom · 1501 – 1101 BCE
Open in the atlas
- On the timeline, 1301 BCE – 1201 BCE: every state, war and life of the 13th century BCE, region by region.
- On the map in 1251 BCE: the borders of the year, its cities under their names of the year, and what happened where.
Wikidata (CC0) · data built 2026-10-07 · Pastlas v2.13.1, by Oleh Voronko. The published atlas and its data are for non-commercial use.