Ancient Egypt encompasses one of the most exciting periods in World History. The comprehensive Ancient Egyptian Timeline details the major Egyptian Events significant to lives of the people and Pharaohs of Egypt. The timeline commences at the beginning of the first Ancient Egyptian dynasty with the rule of the Pharaoh King Menes. The Ancient Egyptian Timeline then goes on to chart the great dynasties and the grand Pharaoh Kings of Egypt including Tutankhamen, Ramses, and Cleopatra.

Egyptian Events and Timeline

Dates of all of the successions and deaths of these Egyptian Pharaohs are detailed in the Ancient Egyptian Timeline. The Ancient Egyptian Timeline details the important people and Egyptian Events, via a simple timeline, charting the key dates in Ancient Egyptian history. The Timeline of Ancient Egypt, the arrangement of the Egyptian Pharaohs into dynasties is based upon the History which the Egyptian priest Manetho prepared under Ptolemy II in the third century B.C.

Between 5500 and 3100 BC Egypt was divided into two kingdoms, known as Upper Egypt (Ta Shemau) and Lower Egypt (Ta Mehu). The Old Kingdom “the Age of the Pyramids” was established in 2686 BC – 2181 BC (3rd – 6th Egyptian Dynasties). In 2580 BC Great Pyramid of Giza built. Tallest structure until 1300 AD. During 2125 weather changes stopped the flooding of the Nile, caused many years of famine.

Egypt once again no longer unified at the start of the 14th Dynasty (Hyksos kings rule in the north). In 17th Dynasty, Egypt reunites and defeats the Hyksos from Western Asia. Between 1570 BC – 1070 BC in the New Kingdom occurred the building of the tombs of the Valley of Kings. The great Pharaohs included Hatshepsut (the famous female Pharaoh), Akhenaten, Tutankhamun, Tuthmose and Ramses II.

King Akhenaten established a new religious order worshipping the sun god Aten Around 1258 BC world’s earliest known peace treaty created. Egypt once again splits into two separate areas, Upper and Lower (715 BC). Alexander the Great invades Egypt; is eventually declared Pharaoh (332 BC).In 640 AD Egypt conquered by Arab forces, becomes Islamic after 300 years of Christianity.

Alexander the Great’s successor, Ptolemy 1, established a new dynasty that lasted until Cleopatra in 30 BC. After 30 BC Egypt fell to the Romans, who introduced Christianity, then the Arabs who brought Islam. Egypt has ever since been an Islamic nation.

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