Time Line of Egypt

• wheat and barley first cultivated in the Nile Valley (c. 5000 B.C.)

• copper in use in Egypt (c. 4000 B.C.)
• Nagada culture in Upper Egypt (c. 3500 B.C.)
• towns develop along the Nile (c. 3300 B.C.)
• unfication of Upper and Lower Egypt by Menes (c. 3100 B.C.)
• hieroglyphs developed (c. 3000 B.C.)

• Old Kingdom founded in Egypt (c. 2800 B.C.)
• Egypt introduces a 365 day calendar (c. 2772 B.C.)
• The Step Pyramid of King Zoser built by Imhotep in Egypt (c. 2650 B.C.)
• Great Pyramid of Khufu in Egypt built (c. 2550)
• Egyptians discover papyrus
• climatic conditions and government corruption hasten the end of the Old Kingdom (c. 2160 B.C.)
• civil war in Egypt (c. 2150 B.C.)
• Middle Kingdom founded in Egypt (2040 B.C.)

• irrigation in Egypt (c. 2000 B.C.)
• Gubla (Byblos) maintaining a thriving trade partnership with Egypt (c. 2000 B.C.)
• bronze working in Egypt (c. 1800 B.C.)
• Hyksos conquer Egypt (c. 1675 B.C.)
• Israelites journey to Egypt to avoid famine (c. 1600 B.C.)
• New Kingdom founded in Egypt (1560 B.C.)
• Hyksos expelled from Egypt by Ahmose (1560 B.C.)
• Thutmose I builds the first tomb in the Valley of the Kings (c. 1506 B.C.)
• Egypt conquers Kush (c. 1500 B.C.)>br>
• Queen Hatshepsut rules Egypt (c. 1490 B.C.)
• Egypt reaches greatest extent under Tuthmosis III (c. 1469 B.C.)
• Amenhotep IV (Akhenaton, 1367 B.C.-1350 B.C.) institutes monotheism in Egypt
• Egyptian capital moved to El Amarna (c. 1363 B.C.)
• reign of Tutankhamon (c. 1350 - 1341 B.C.)
• Egyptian army halted at Qadesh by the Hittites (1285 B.C.)
• Moses leads the Israelites out of Egypt (c. 1280 B.C.)
• peace treaty between Egypt and the Hittites (c. 1269 B.C.)
• invasion of the Sea Peoples halted by Merenptah (c. 1218 B.C.)
• invasion of the "Sea Peoples" halted by Ramesses III (c. 1180 B.C.)

• collapse of the New Kingdom in Egypt allows Kush to expand (970 B.C.)
• Shesonq sacks Jerusalem (c. 925 B.C.)

• Egypt divides into five kingdoms (c. 828-712 B.C.)

• Kush occupies Egypt (c. 750 B.C.)
• iron working in Egypt (c. 750 B.C.)
• Egypt reunited under Nubian rule (712 B.C.)

• Assyrian rule in Egypt (671-651 B.C.)
• Kushites driven from Egypt by the Assyrians (654 B.C.)

• Egypt conquered by the Persians (525 B.C.)

• Egypt overthrows Persian rule (405 B.C.)

• Alexander the Great conquers Egypt (332 B.C.)
• Ptolemy Soter becomes pharoah of Egypt after Alexander's death (323 B.C.)

• Lighthouse at Alexandria built (297 B.C.)
• Egyptians introduce the concept of the leap year (239 B.C.)

• Rosetta Stone (200 B.C.)

• Cleopatra becomes ruler of Egypt (48 B.C.)
• Egypt becomes a Roman province (31 B.C.)

• Coptic Christian missionaries from Egypt and Syria reach Axum (341 A.D.)

• founding of Cairo (641 A.D.)
• Arabs conquer Persia and Egypt (641 A.D.)