Years 1260 BC.

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The years 1260 BC cover the years from 1269 BC to 1260 BC.

Events
1265-1258: reign of Zu Geng, twenty-second king of the Shang Dynasty, in China according to tradition.

1265-1235: reign of Tudhaliah IV, king of the Hittites. He succeeded his father Hattushili III, who left a consolidated empire which, with the exception of the Hanigalbat, presented itself as Supiluliuma. Tudhaliya IV succeeded in maintaining the cohesion of the empire. From the beginning of his reign he entered into a treaty with his cousin Kurunta, king of Tarhuntassa, in favour of the latter. He fought the countries of Arzawa and Ahhiyawa, and maintained good relations with the Assyrians until the advent of Tukulti-Ninurta (1244), which led an aggressive policy in Subaru (Diyarbakır region), at the very gates of the Hittite Empire. Tudhaliya protested diplomatically, then counter-attack but was defeated at the Battle of Nihiriya. The king of Karkemish Ini-Teshub mobilizes Syrian princes loyal to the Hittites. Tudhaliya IV imposed an economic blockade on Assyria by prohibiting Ahhiyawa ships from trading with that country, which was one of the terms of the treaty with Sausgamuwa, king of Loverou (son of Benteshina). Peace was finally concluded with Tukulti-Ninurta, who restored the territories taken from the king of Karkemish. Tudhaliya IV imposes a heavy toll (copper) on the rulers of Alasiya (Cyprus). It is probably a matter of taking the island and its wealth away from the abuses of the Chinese pirates. The relationship of forces in the West Anatolian is changed: the personal ambitions of some kings and the actions of the Achaeans relax the bonds that the Hittite rulers had managed to weave until then. A great confusion ensues. Tudhaliya IV undertakes a vast religious reform to homogenize beliefs, a reflection of the Hittite imperial unity: recension and reorganization of idols, shrines, cults, festivals, renewal of missing or destroyed statues, construction of new temples... During his reign were completed the Hittite rock sculptures of the shrine of Yazılıkaya, near Hattusa
1265-1255: reign of Kudur-Enlil, king Kassite of Babylon.
1265: Bakenkhonsou became high priest of Amon (year 39 of the reign of Ramses II). He built most of the Temple of Luxor and had the obelisk of pink granite erected today in Place de la Concorde in Paris.

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