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Chronicle VI of XIV

The New Kingdom

The Egyptian Empire

Egypt's imperial zenith: Hatshepsut, Akhenaten, Tutankhamun, and Ramesses the Great.

Span
c. 1550 – 1069 BCE
Entries
10
  1. 1550 BC

    Eighteenth DynastyMilitary

    Ahmose I expels the Hyksos

    Ahmose I storms Avaris and drives the Hyksos from Egypt, reuniting the Two Lands and founding the Eighteenth Dynasty and the New Kingdom.

    Meanwhile, elsewhere · 3
  2. 1473 BC

    Eighteenth DynastyPolitical

    Hatshepsut, the female pharaoh

    Hatshepsut takes the full titles of pharaoh and rules for two decades of peace and prosperity, building her terraced temple at Deir el-Bahari and trading with the land of Punt.

    Meanwhile, elsewhere · 3
  3. 1457 BC

    Eighteenth DynastyMilitary

    Thutmose III and the Battle of Megiddo

    Thutmose III crushes a Canaanite coalition at Megiddo and, in seventeen campaigns, forges the greatest empire Egypt would ever know, reaching the Euphrates.

    Meanwhile, elsewhere · 3
  4. 1386 BC

    Eighteenth DynastyCultural

    Amenhotep III and the imperial zenith

    Amenhotep III presides over an age of unrivalled wealth, diplomacy, and art, raising colossal monuments and conducting affairs with foreign kings through the Amarna correspondence.

    Meanwhile, elsewhere · 3
  5. 1353 BC

    Amarna PeriodReligious

    Akhenaten and the Amarna revolution

    Amenhotep IV renames himself Akhenaten, proclaims the sun-disc Aten as the sole god, and builds a new capital, Akhetaten, with his queen Nefertiti.

    Meanwhile, elsewhere · 3
  6. 1332 BC

    Eighteenth DynastyReligious

    Tutankhamun restores the old gods

    The boy-king Tutankhamun abandons Amarna, restores the cult of Amun and the traditional gods, and returns the court to Thebes and Memphis.

    Meanwhile, elsewhere · 3
  7. 1279 BC

    Nineteenth DynastyMilitary

    Ramesses II, Kadesh, and the first peace treaty

    Ramesses the Great fights the Hittites at Kadesh, later concluding the world's earliest surviving peace treaty, and reigns for 66 years of monumental building.

    Meanwhile, elsewhere · 3
  8. 1207 BC

    Nineteenth DynastyMilitary

    Merneptah and the first mention of Israel

    Ramesses II's son Merneptah repels a great Libyan and Sea Peoples invasion; his victory stele bears the earliest known mention of Israel.

    Meanwhile, elsewhere · 3

  9. 2 more entries, to 1069 BC