Assyria allies for a brief time with a diminished Mitanni from 1325 to liberate the Mitanni subkingdom of Hangibat from Hittite control.

Hittite emperor Suppiluliama has reconquered much of central Anatolia, dominated Syria, and vanquished the Mitanni state by the time of the death around 1323.

Suppiliuliama’s son, succeeding him as Mursili II, must almost immediately deal with unrest from vassals in the east, north, and west.

Mycenaeans had assumed control of such places on the western coast of Anatolia as Miletus, which Minoans had colonized before them.

Greek myths relate that the city was founded by a hero named Miletus, who fled Crete to avoid being forced to become the eromenos of King Minos (according to Antoninus Liberalis, after Nicander (Metamorphoses XXX 1-2).

These myths further relate that the hero Miletus found the city only after slaying a giant named Asterius, son of Anax; and that the region known as Miletus was originally called 'Anactoria'.

Miletus is first mentioned in the Hittite Annals of Mursili II as Millawanda, which supports the rebellion of Uhha-Ziti of Arzawa in about 1320 BCE.

Mursili orders his generals Mala-Ziti and Gulla to raid Millawanda, and they proceeds to burn parts of it (damage from LHIIIA:2 has been found on site: Christopher Mee, Anatolia and the Aegean in the Late Bronze Age, p. 142).

In addition the town is fortified according to a Hittite plan (ibid, p. 139).

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.

Cecrops II, a legendary King of Athens, dies after a reign of forty years and is succeeded by his son Pandion II.

Pandion II was later driven into exile from Athens by the sons of Cecrops II's brother (or possibly nephew) Metion, so that Metion could take power.

Pandion II fled to Megara, where he married the King's daughter and eventually inherited the throne.

After his death, Pandion II's sons return to Athens and drive out the sons of Metion.

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.