Ancient Egypt
Explore Ancient Egypt on Ever-When, an interactive timeline of history from the Big Bang to the present day.
Key events on this timeline
- First Dynasty of Egypt founded (3100 BCE)
- New Kingdom of Egypt (1550 BCE)
- Old Kingdom of Egypt (2686 BCE)
- Great Pyramid of Giza (2560 BCE)
- Ramesses II (the Great) (1303 BCE)
- Ptolemaic Kingdom (305 BCE)
- Death of Cleopatra (30 BCE)
- Middle Kingdom of Egypt (2055 BCE)
- Cleopatra VII of Egypt (69 BCE)
- Hieroglyphic writing emerges (3200 BCE)
- Akhenaten's religious revolution (1347 BCE)
- Hatshepsut (1507 BCE)
- Battle of Actium (31 BCE)
- Thutmose III (1481 BCE)
- Alexander founds Alexandria (331 BCE)
- Library of Alexandria founded (300 BCE)
- Third Intermediate and Late Period of Egypt (1077 BCE)
- Akhenaten (1380 BCE)
- Djoser's Step Pyramid built (2650 BCE)
- Persian conquest of Egypt (525 BCE)
- Battle of Kadesh (1274 BCE)
- Sea Peoples raid Egypt (1177 BCE)
- Battle of Megiddo (1457 BCE) (1457 BCE)
- Hyksos rule in Egypt (1650 BCE)
- Kushite conquest of Egypt (750 BCE)
- Karnak Temple complex expanded (1550 BCE)
- Naqada culture (4000 BCE)
- Champollion deciphers hieroglyphs (1822)
- Abu Simbel temples completed (1244 BCE)
- Tutankhamun (1341 BCE)