The 1370s BC refers to the period between ''1379 BC'' and ''1370 BC'', the 1370s was the third decade of the

14th century BC 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 Tenochtitlán, San Lorenzo site in Mexico; large public buildings are constructed. * Pastoral nom ...

Events and trends

* The cutting down of the oak log that the

Egtved Girl The Egtved Girl (c. 1390–1370 BC) was a Nordic Bronze Age girl whose well-preserved remains were discovered outside Egtved, Denmark in 1921. Aged 16–18 at death, she was slim, tall, had short, blond hair and well-trimmed nails. He ...

(in today's

Denmark ) , song = ( en, "King Christian stood by the lofty mast") , song_type = National and royal anthem , image_map = EU-Denmark.svg , map_caption = , subdivision_type = Sovereign state , subdivision_name = Danish Realm, Kingdom of Denmark ...

) was buried in. It is dated to the summer of

1370 BC The 1370s BC refers to the period between ''1379 BC'' and ''1370 BC'', the 1370s was the third decade of the 14th century BC. Events and trends * The cutting down of the oak log that the Egtved Girl (in today's Denmark) was buried in. It is dated ...

. * c.

1375 BC The 1370s BC refers to the period between ''1379 BC'' and ''1370 BC'', the 1370s was the third decade of the 14th century BC. Events and trends * The cutting down of the oak log that the Egtved Girl (in today's Denmark) was buried in. It is dated ...

—

Minoan culture The Minoan civilization was a Bronze Age Aegean civilization on the island of Crete and other Aegean Islands, whose earliest beginnings were from 3500BC, with the complex urban civilization beginning around 2000BC, and then declining from 1450B ...

ends on

Crete Crete ( el, Κρήτη, translit=, Modern: , Ancient: ) is the largest and most populous of the Greek islands, the 88th largest island in the world and the fifth largest island in the Mediterranean Sea, after Sicily, Sardinia, Cyprus, and ...

. * c. 1375 BC—Site of palace complex

Knossos Knossos (also Cnossos, both pronounced ; grc, Κνωσός, Knōsós, ; Linear B: ''Ko-no-so'') is the largest Bronze Age archaeological site on Crete and has been called Europe's oldest city. Settled as early as the Neolithic period, the na ...

is abandoned.Castleden, Rodney (1993). ''Life in Bronze Age Crete''. London; New York: Routledge. p. 35. * 1378 BC— Old Assyrian Empire disestablished.

Significant people

Akhenaten Akhenaten (pronounced ), also spelled Echnaton, Akhenaton, ( egy, ꜣḫ-n-jtn ''ʾŪḫə-nə-yātəy'', , meaning "Effective for the Aten"), was an ancient Egyptian pharaoh reigning or 1351–1334 BC, the tenth ruler of the Eighteenth Dy ...

is thought to have been born in this decade. * Nefertiti is thought to have been born in this decade.

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