Akhenaten's Rule

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  • Period: 1391 BCE to 1292 BCE

    Armana Period

  • 1350 BCE

    Akhenaten begins his rule

  • 1349 BCE

    Birth of Akhenaten's daughter Meritaten

  • Period: 1349 BCE to 1345 BCE

    Finishes pyons at Karnak, started by Amenhotep III

  • 1348 BCE

    Begins work on temples to the Aten at Thebes

  • 1348 BCE

    Celebrates first Jubilee

  • 1348 BCE

    Ordered the decoration if his father's pylon gateways at Karnak

  • 1346 BCE

    Building begins in new capital city, Akhetaten

  • 1346 BCE

    Birth of Akhenaten's daughters Meketateb and Ankhenspaaten

  • 1344 BCE

    Central section of Akhetaten completed

  • 1344 BCE

    Changes name from Amenhotep IV to Akhenaten

  • 1344 BCE

    Begins working on royal tomb

  • 1342 BCE

    Goernment moved to Akhetaten

  • 1341 BCE

    References of all gods except Re are removed, monotheism enforced

  • 1339 BCE

    Birth of Akhenaten's daughter Neferneferuaten

  • 1338 BCE

    Reception of foreign ambassadors from Asia, Africa, and the Aegean

  • 1338 BCE

    Birth of Akhenaten's daughters Neferneferure and Setepenre

  • 1337 BCE

    Official family is depicted for the last time in full

  • 1337 BCE

    Akhenaten is visited by his mother, Tiye

  • 1337 BCE

    Plague hit Egypt along with problems in Syria and Palestine

  • 1336 BCE

    Death of Akhenaten's Daughter Meketaten

  • 1335 BCE

    Death of Akhenaten's wife, Queen Nefertiti

  • 1335 BCE

    Akhenaten's eldest daughter, Meketaten, becomes queen

  • 1334 BCE

    Coregency between Smenkhkare and Akhenaten

  • 1334 BCE

    Meketaten marries Smenkhkare

  • 1332 BCE

    Death of Akhenaten