Cecrops II, a legendary King of Athens,…

Tushratta had been assassinated by a group led by one of his sons after a third devastating Hittite raid led to the fall of Carchemish, according to a treaty later made between Suppiluliuma and Tushratta's brother Shattiwaza.

A time of civil war had followed, which comes to an end when Suppiluliuma places his son-in-law Shattiwaza on the Mitannian throne.

Horemheb, upon his accession to the throne in about 1320 BCE, had initiated a comprehensive series of internal reforms meant to curb the gross abuses of power and privileges that had begun under Akhenaten's reign, due to the overcentralization of state power and privileges in the hands of a few officials.

He "appointed judges and regional tribunes…reintroduced local religious authorities" and divided legal power "between Upper Egypt and Lower Egypt" between "the Viziers of Thebes and Memphis respectively.”

These deeds are recorded in a stela which the king had erected at the foot of his Tenth Pylon at Karnak.

Sometimes called The Great Edict of Horemheb, it is a copy of the actual text of the king's decree to reestablish order to the Two Lands and curb abuses of state authority.

The stela's creation and prominent location emphasizes the great importance which Horemheb placed upon domestic reform.

Horemheb also reformed the Army and reorganized the Deir el-Medinah workforce in his Seventh Year while Horemheb's official, Maya, renewed the tomb of Thutmose IV, which had been disturbed by tomb robbers in his Eighth Year.

The so-called Elamite Middle Period, an era of increasing power and prosperity which begins around 1300, sees a surge of spectacular architecture and sculpture at such Elamite centers as Dur-Untash.

The Hittite empire, at its peak during the reign of Mursili II, stretches from Arzawa in the west to Mitanni in the east, many of the Kaskian territories to the north including Hayasa-Azzi in the far northeast, and on south into Canaan approximately as far as the southern border of Lebanon, incorporating all of these territories within its domain.

By the time of his death, followed by the succession of Muwattali in 1295, the Hittite Empire, now firmly established, is effectively governed through a widespread system of treaty relationships with allies and vassal states.

A rock-fill dam, used to irrigate fields near the present city of Homs, is constructed on the Orontes River in Syria about 1300.

Egypt's power and confidence has once again been restored under Horemheb after the chaos of the Amarna period.

Horemheb is a prolific builder: in his lifetime, he builds numerous temples and buildings throughout Egypt.

He constructs the Second, Ninth and Tenth Pylons of the Great Hypostyle Hall in the Temple at Karnak, using recycled talatat blocks from Akhenaten's own monuments as building material for the first two Pylons.

The Egyptians (presumably) undertake deep underground mining by 1300 in the Nubian desert. (One surviving mine is fifteen hundred feet, or four hundred and fifty meters, long and had been excavated to a depth of two hundred and ninety-two feet, or eighty-nine meters).

The people of Tiryns greatly strengthen the city’s fortifications around 1300.

Assyria allies for a brief time with a diminished Mitanni to liberate the Mitanni subkingdom of Hangibat from Hittite control.

A widespread system of treaty relationships with allies and vassal states effectively governs the now firmly established new Hittite Empire.

The Hittite Empire concludes a peace treaty with Egypt in 1285.

Adad-nirari, who has succeeded his father Arik-den-ili, is the earliest Assyrian king whose annals survive in any detail.

A few years after his accession in 1295, he defeats the Kassite king Nazimaruttash of Babylonia, forcing his retreat.