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2925 BCE
Menes writes egypt
Menes is know as the legendary first king of unified Egypt, Modern scholars have inconclusively identified the legendary Menes with one or more of the archaic Egyptian kings bearing the names Scorpion, Narmer, and Aha. -
Period: 2649 BCE to 2150 BCE
Oldkingdom
During the Old Kingdom, the capital was renamed Memphis. The old kingdom is the name that is give when Egypt mark the high points of civilization, egyptians at that time would have seen no distinction between the Old Kingdom and the preceding Early Dynastic Period, since the last Early Dynastic king was related by blood to the first two kings of the Old Kingdom. -
Period: 2040 BCE to 1782 BCE
Middlekingdom
The Middle Kingdom is considered ancient Egypt's Classical Age during which the culture produced some of its greatest works of art and literature. it was constituted by the 12th and 13th dynasties. -
1720 BCE
Hyksos conquer egyptians
Egypt began to be invaded by a people "of obscure race", These Hyksos melted easily into Egyptian society at first; eventually they became very powerful and finally, in a coup, they came to rule the whole of Northern Egypt, imposing one of their people as the legitimate Pharaoh.They were able to accomplish this because they took advantage of a time when the dynasty of Pharaohs
came to an end, because the Pharaoh had no son to succeed him. -
Period: 1550 BCE to 1295 BCE
New kingdom
It is know went Egypt was reborn with the advent of the New Kingdom and a succession of extraordinarily able kings and queens laid the foundations of a strong Egypt and bequeathed a prosperous economy to the kings of the nineteenth dynasty. Egypt began to suffer economic problems and a break down in the fabric of society.Egypt was ruled for the next 200 years by kings of Libyan origin. -
Period: 1508 BCE to 1458 BCE
Reign of Hatshepsut
Pharaoh Hatshepsut had a peaceful and prosperous reign. She built magnificent temples, protected Egypt's borders and masterminded a highly profitable trading mission to the mysterious land of Punt. She was one of the most successful of the 18th Dynasty kings. -
Period: 1479 BCE to 1425 BCE
Reign of Thutmose
Thutmose I, 18th-dynasty king of ancient Egypt who expanded Egypt’s empire in Nubia (in present-day Sudan) and also penetrated deep into Syria. -
Period: 1279 BCE to 1213 BCE
Reign of Ramses II
The Ramesses lived to be ninety-six years old, his reing was so long that all of his subjects, when he died, had been born knowing Ramesses as pharaoh and there was widespread panic that the world would end with the death of their king. -
525 BCE
Persians conquered egyptians
Ambyses defeated the Egyptians in battle at Pelusium in the Nile Delta. The Persians captured Helopolis. The city soon fell and Psamtik was captured. The Pharoah was taken into captivity at Susa and Cambyses set establishing his rule in Egypt. -
332 BCE
Greeks conquer egyptians
Alexander the Great came from Greece conquering much of the middle east all the way to India and in the way he conquered Egypt, then Alexander was declared pharaoh of Egypt, and after he came he established the capital city of Alexandria along the northern coast of Egypt.
