14th century BC

One hundred years, from 1400 BC to 1301 BC 1300s BC the decade 1300s BC (decade) -14 The 14th century BC was the century that lasted from the year 1400 BC until 1301 BC. Events 1350 – 1250 BC: the Bajío phase of the San Lorenzo site in Mexico; large public buildings are constructed.Victoria Bricker Jeremy A. Sabloff Supplement to the Handbook of Middle American Indians 1 University of Texas Press 2012 978-0-292-74441-7 376 Pastoral nomadism develops in the steppes of Central Asia; cattle are watched on horseback.fr Hervé Beaumont Asie centrale Editions Marcus 2008 978-2-7131-0228-8 101 Middle East and Africa thumb|300px|right|The Near East c. 1400 BC thumb|200px|The northern Colossus of Memnon 1400 – 1250 BC: the heyday of the Phoenician city of Ugarit.Yves Denis Papin Chronologie de l'histoire ancienne fr Éditions Jean-paul Gisserot 1998 978-2-87747-346-0 12 A written alphabet is attested by Ugaritic texts.Frank Lalou Les 22 clés de l'alphabet hébraïque fr Desclée De Brouwer 2016 978-2-220-02025-9 38 c. 1380 – 1336 BC: the reign of Šuppiluliuma I, who leads the Hittite Empire to its peak.Georges Roux La Mésopotamie fr Seuil 1995 978-2-02-008632-5 559 Šuppiluliuma I conquers the weakened Hurrian kingdom of Mitanni in the second half of the century. Assyria is emancipated under Ashur-uballit I.fr Jacques Freu Michel Mazoyer L'apogée du nouvel empire hittite L'Harmattan 2008 978-2-296-21119-3 13 1375 BC: Joshua, leader of the Israelites, from the Hebrew Bible, is likely to have died around this time. 1372 – 1350 BC: Akhetaton (Amarna) is constructed as the ephemeral capital of the pharaoh Akhenaten and dedicated to the sun god Aten. It is abandoned a few years after Akhenaten's death.Simpson William Kelly William Kelly Simpson The Art and Architecture of Ancient Egypt Yale University Press 1998 978-0-300-07747-6 181 c. 1325 BC: Pharaoh Tutankhamun dies and is buried in a richly furnished tomb in the Valley of the Kings. c. 1320 – 1295 BC: the sinking of the Uluburun shipwreck in the Mediterranean Sea south of modern-day Kaş.Harry Fokkens Anthony Harding The Oxford Handbook of the European Bronze Age OUP Oxford 2013 978-0-19-957286-1 383 Lycian pirates from southwest Anatolia raid the kingdom of Alashiya in Cyprus. They are employed as mercenaries by the Hittites and take part in the Battle of Kadesh.Nancy H. Demand The Mediterranean Context of Early Greek History John Wiley & Sons 2011 978-1-4443-4234-5 206 An Ugaritic patera, with its embossed decoration in concentric zones and hunting scenes, reveals an exceptional level in goldsmithing.Bénédicte Ottinger L'art et la chasse fr Renaissance Du Livre 2002 978-2-8046-0679-4 12 Europe c. 1400 – 1300 BC: A glacial rise is attested by the peat bog of the glacier of Tyrol.Robert Vivian Les glaciers du Mont-Blanc fr La Fontaine de Siloë 2005 978-2-84206-285-9 20 Phase III A of the Greek Bronze Age.Claude Baurain Les Grecs et la Méditerranée orientale : des siècles "obscurs" à la fin de l'époque archaïque fr Presses universitaires de France 1997 60 Contacts with the Mycenaean civilization are established at Thapsos, Syracuse, Scoglio del Tonno in the Gulf of Taranto, and Ischia on the Tyrrhenian coast.Claude Mossé Annie Schnapp-Gourbeillon Précis d'histoire grecque fr Armand Colin 2009 978-2-200-28392-6 69Jean MacIntosh Turfa The Etruscan World Routledge 2014 978-1-134-05523-4 198 1400 – 1370 BC: phase III A1 of the Late Helladic period in Greece.Bryan Feuer Mycenaean Civilization McFarland 2004 978-0-7864-2698-0 6 Palaces are constructed in Tiryns and Pylos.Jean-Claude Poursat La Grèce préclassique fr Points 2014 978-2-7578-4500-4 49 Linear B, which transcribes an archaic form of Greek, appears in the palace of Knossos at the end of Phase III A1 of the Late Minoan period.Rina Viers Des signes pictographiques à l'alphabet : la communication écrite en Méditerranée : actes du colloque, 14 et 15 mai 1996, Villa grecque Kérylos, Fondation Théodore Reinach (Beaulieu-sur-mer) fr Karthala 2000 978-2-86537-996-5 219 1370 – 1340 BC: phase III A2 of the Late Helladic period in Greece. 1340 – 1190 BC: phase III B of the Late Helladic period in Greece. Beehive tombs are constructed in Epirus and Thessaly,Nicolas Platon Béatrice de Tournay La Civilisation égéenne : Le Bronze récent et la civilisation mycénienne 2 fr Albin Michel 1981 978-2-226-22522-1 382 and a palace is constructed in Athens.Roland Étienne Athènes, espaces urbains et histoire fr Hachette Éducation 2004 978-2-01-181444-9 PT22 1380 – 1120 BC: a Mycenaean sanctuary is built in Phylakopi. c. 1370 BC: the Hagia Triada Sarcophagus is created in Crete.Ann Suter Lament Oxford University Press 2008 978-0-19-971427-8 77 c. 1350 – 1330 BC: the reconstruction of the palace and Cyclopean enclosure at Mycenae, then at its peak under the reign of the legendary king and queen Perseus and Andromeda.Paul Faure Paul Faure (archaeologist) Marie-Jeanne Gaignerot Guide grec antique Hachette Éducation Technique 1991 978-2-01-181766-2 PT65 References External links -6 -86