Earliest surviving peace treaty
1,259 BCE* · Event
Egyptian–Hittite treaty after Kadesh; copies survive in both languages.
On these timelines: Master, Ancient Egypt, Mesopotamia & the Ancient Near East
Around 1259 BCE
- Zhou dynasty (1046 BCE)
- Exodus from Egypt (1300 BCE)
- Moses (1391 BCE)
- Olmec civilisation (1500 BCE)
- Phoenician alphabet emerges (1050 BCE)
- Ramesses II (the Great) (1303 BCE)
- Zoroaster composes the Gathas (1100 BCE)
- Zoroaster (1200 BCE)
- Phoenician civilisation (1500 BCE)
- Bronze Age collapse (1200 BCE)