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Overview
Events
★
1397 BC —
Pandion I, legendary
King of Athens, dies after a reign of 40 years and is succeeded by his son
Erechtheus II of Athens.
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1385 BC —
Pharaoh Amenhotep III of
Egypt marries
Tiy, his
Chief Queen.
★
1380 BC — Pharaoh
Amenhotep II connects the
Nile and the
Red Sea with a canal.
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1372 BC — The
Hittites conquer all of the Kingdom of
Mitanni west of the Euphrates.
★
1357 BC — Danish [
Egtvedpigen] is buried in todays Denmark.
★
1347 BC — Legendary King
Erechtheus II is reportedly killed by
lightning after a reign of 50 years and is succeeded by his younger brother
Cecrops II.
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1346 BC —
Pharaoh Amenhotep IV of
Egypt begins his Cult of
Aten and begins construction of
Amarna intended to be his new capital.
★
1345 BC — Pharaoh
Amenhotep IV of
Egypt renames himself to
Akhenaton.
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1344 BC —
1322 BC — Beginning of
Hittite empire.
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1336 BC —
Pharaoh Akhenaton of
Egypt names
Smenkhkare as a co-ruler.
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1334 BC/
1333 BC —
Tutankhaten becomes
Pharaoh of
Egypt and marries
Ankhesenpaaten, daughter and wife of his predecessor
Akhenaton.
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1331 BC —
Pharaoh Tutankhaten of
Egypt renames himself to
Tutankhamun and abandons
Amarna, returning the capital to
Thebes.
★
1320 BC —
Egypt: End of
Eighteenth Dynasty, start of
Nineteenth Dynasty.
★
1310s BC — The
Bhagavad Gita is written, according to some
Hindu traditions.
★
1300s BC —
Cecrops II, legendary
King of Athens, dies after a reign of 40 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 returned to
Athens and drove out the sons of
Metion.
★
1307 BC —
Adad-nirari I becomes king of
Assyria.
★
1303 BC —
Seti I becomes
Pharaoh of
Egypt.
★
1300 BC — according to some chronologies,
Moses leads the
Hebrews from
Egypt, to the land of
Israel, though with very little evidence to support this date.
★
1300 BC —
Pangeng moved the capital of
Shang Dynasty to
Yin.
★ c.
1300 BC — Rise of the
Urnfield culture.
Significant persons
★
1398 BC — Birth of
Tiy to Egyptian nobleman
Yuya and his wife
Tjuyu. She later becomes the
Chief Queen of
Pharaoh Amenhotep III of
Egypt and the
matriarch of the
Amarna family. (approximate date).
★
1391 BC — Pharaoh
Amenhotep III started to rule.
★
1368 BC — Death of
Erichthonius, mythical King of
Dardania.
★
1366 BC — Birth of Princess
Tadukhipa to
Tusratta, King of
Mitanni and his
Queen Juni. She will be later married to
Amenhotep III and after his death to his son and heir
Amenhotep IV Akhenaton. She is variously identified with Akhenaton's Queens
Nefertiti and
Kiya.
★
1365 BC —
Ashur-uballit I rises to the throne on
Assyria.
★
1362 BC — Birth of the later
Pharaoh Amenhotep IV Akhenaton to
Amenhotep III and his Queen
Tiy.
★
1350 BC —
Pharaoh Amenhotep IV Akhenaton rises to the throne of
Egypt.
★
1341 BC/
1340 BC — Birth of
Tutankhaten, later
Pharaoh of
Egypt as
Tutankhamun (approximate date).
★
1338 BC — Queen
Tiy of
Egypt, Chief Queen of
Amenhotep III and
matriarch of the
Amarna family, vanishes from the historical record. Presumed death.
★
1337 BC — Queen
Nefertiti of
Egypt vanishes from the historical record. Presumed death.
★
1334 BC/
1333 BC — Death of
Smenkhkare,
Pharaoh of
Egypt and co-ruler with
Akhenaton.
★
1334 BC/
1333 BC — Death of
Akhenaton,
Pharaoh of
Egypt.
★
1323 BC — Death of
Pharaoh Tutankhamun of
Egypt.
★
1320 BC — Birth of later
Pharaoh Ramses II of
Egypt (approximate date).
★
1300s BC —
Seti I of
Egypt.
★
1300s BC —
Pangeng of
China.
★
Suppiliulima, king of the
Hittites.
★
Moses (unlikely).
Decades and Years
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