Egypt During the Reign of Akhenaton
Dates and Time scale
AKHENATON (ca. 1409 - 1369 B.C.)
NEFERTITI (ca. 1410 - 1370? B.C.)
SMENKHKARA (ca. 1395 - 1369 B.C.)
TUTANKHAMON (ca. 1378 - 1360 B.C.)
MERITATEN (ca. 1354 - ca. 1339 B.C.)
MEKETATEN (ca. 1353 - ca. 1341 B.C.)
ANKHESENPAATEN (ca. 1351 - +1328 B.C.)
NEFERNEFRUATEN TASHERIT (ca. 1349 - ? B.C.)
NEFERNEFRURE (ca. 1348 - 1343/2 B.C.)
SETEPENRE'(ca. 1347 - 1343/2 B.C.)
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Year of Akhenaton's Reign |
Date- according to Pendlebury |
Event |
Comment |
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1411 B.C. |
Amenhophis III ascends the throne |
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1410 B.C. |
Amenhophis III marries Tiye |
She would have been about 13 years old |
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1409 B.C. |
Amenhophis IV is born - later to become Akhenaton |
Malaka |
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1410 |
Nefertiti is born |
Fall of Knossos |
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1395 |
Smenkhkara is born |
At Malaka |
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Soon after the accession of AMUNHOTEP IV as co-regent with his father AMUNHOTEP III |
1386 |
Akhenaton married NEFERTITI, |
Akhenaton would have been 16 0r 17 |
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Year 2 |
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Birth of MERITATEN |
Ref Weigall, |
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Year 3 or 4 |
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Birth of MEKETATON |
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Year 5, |
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Birth of ANKHESENPAATEN |
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Middle of Year 5 |
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Title - "Beauty of the beauties of the Aten" is assumed by NEFERTITI |
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Year 6 |
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AkhetAten, "occupied" by the court - Amenhophis IV changes name to Akhenaton |
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Year 7 |
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Birth of NEFERNEFRUATEN -TASHERIT |
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Late year 8 or early year 9 |
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Birth of NEFERNEFRURE |
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about Year 9 |
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NEFERNEFRUATEN TASHERIT was shipped off to Ugarit to marry the newly-crowned NIQMAD II |
No more is heard of her |
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Year 9 or 10 |
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Birth of SETEPENRE |
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Year 10 |
1378? |
Birth of TUTANKHAMON |
At malaka |
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1375 |
Death of Amenhophis III |
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eighth day of the second month of winter in Year 12", |
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Coronation Tribute |
Tiye visits Akhetaten |
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Year 13 |
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Akhenaton married MERITATEN as early as Year 13 |
She was about eleven years old. She could have been the mother of MERITATEN TASHERIT. |
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Year 13 or 14 prior to NEFERNEFRURE's death |
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SETEPENRE died |
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Year 13 or 14 |
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NEFERNEFRURE dies |
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Year 14 or 15 |
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MEKETATEN died |
Possibly in childbirth She was buried in Room Gamma of the Royal Tomb at Akhet-Aten, quite possibly the second occupant of the family crypt. |
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Year 14 or 15 |
1370? |
Nefertiti dies or falls from favour |
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Year 15 |
1370? |
SMENKHKARE made co-regent with Akhenaton |
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Year 16 |
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ANKHESENPAATEN was married by her father |
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Year 16 or 17 |
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Birth of ANKHESENPAATEN TASHERIT to Ankhesenpaaten |
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Year 17 |
1369 |
Akhenaton dies |
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SMENKHKARE's Year 3 or early in the undocumented Year 4 |
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MERITATEN dies |
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Year 4 |
1369 |
Death of Smenkhare |
In Thebes |
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1369 |
Tutankhamon ascends the throne |
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1367 |
Nefertiti dies? |
Court returns to Thebes and names are altered |
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1360 |
Tutankhamon dies after returning from a journey to the Egyptian territories |
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1360 |
Ay marries Ankhesenpaaton |
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1356 |
Ay dies |
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1356 |
Horemheb ascends to the throne |
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1356 |
Hatred against Akhenaton and his family breaks out |
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