Akhenaten
Egyptian pharaoh in 18th Dynasty
8 dated entries naming Akhenaten, drawn from 6 separate years between 1352 BCE and 1334 BCE. Nothing here is written by us: each line is the sentence a Wikipedia year article used, and the link beside it opens the exact revision.
Also written as Amenhotep IV in the source articles; Wikipedia redirects those to the same subject, so their entries are on this page.
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14th century BC
- 1352 BCEc. 1352 BC – Amenhotep III (Eighteenth Dynasty of Egypt) dies and is succeeded as Pharaoh by Amenhotep IV.source
- 1348 BCEc. 1348 BC—Pharaoh Amenhotep IV changes his name to Akhenaten.source
- 1346 BCE1346 BC—Amenhotep IV of Egypt begins his Cult of Aten and begins construction of Amarna intended to be his new capital.source
- 1345 BCE1345 BC–Amenhotep IV of Egypt renames himself to Akhenaten.source
- 1336 BCE1336 BC: Pharaoh Akhenaten of Egypt names Smenkhkare as a co-ruler.source
- 1336 BCE1336 BC: Tutankhaten becomes Pharaoh of Egypt and marries Ankhesenpaaten, his half sister and cousin as well as a daughter of his predecessor Akhenaten.source
- 1334 BCE1334 BC: Death of Akhenaten, Pharaoh of Egypt. Alternative date is 1333 BCsource
- 1334 BCE1334 BC: Death of Smenkhkare, Pharaoh of Egypt and co-ruler with Akhenaten. Alternative date is 1333 BCsource
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