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• 1368 BC - Death of ErichthoniusThe mythical King Erichthonius of Dardania and Batia (died c. 1368 BC) was the son of Dardanus or Darda, King of Dardania, and Batia, (although some legends say his mother was Olizone). Erichthonius became king of Dardania when his elder brother Ilus died, mythical King of DardaniaDardania in Greek mythology is the name of a city founded on Mount Ida by Dardanus from which also the region and the people took their name. From Dardanus' grandson Tros the people gained the additional name of Trojans and the region gained the additiona.
• 1366 BC - Birth of Princess TadukhipaTadukhipa daughter of Tusratta, King of Mitanni (reigned ca. 1382 BC 1342 BC) and his Queen Juni. Relatively little is known about this Princess of Mitanni. She is believed to have been born during the year 21 of the reign of Amenhotep III (ca. Fifteen ye to Tusratta , King of MitanniThe Mitanni were a people of Indo-Aryan origin who ruled a vast kingdom (with a common Hurrian population) in West Asia in the second millennium BC. Mitanni arose near the sources of the Khabur River in upper Mesopotamia sometime after 1500 BC. It was a f and his Queen Juni . She will be later married to Amenhotep IIIgyptisches Museum, Berlin Colossus of Memnon Amenhotep III (called Nibmu(`w)areya in the Amarna letters) was an Egyptian pharaoh of the XVIIIth dynasty. According to different authors he ruled ca. 1413-1377 BC, 1405-1367 BC, or 1386-1349 BC, following on and after his death to his son and heir Amenhotep IV Akhenaton. She is variously identified with Akhenaton's Queens NefertitiNefertiti was the wife of the Egyptian Pharaoh Amenhotep IV (later Akhenaten), and mother-in-law of the Pharaoh Tutankhamun. Her name roughly translates to "the beautiful one is come". She also shares her name with a type of elongated gold bead that she w and KiyaKiya was a wife of Pharaoh Akhenaten. Little is known about her, and she is scarcely documented until Akhenaten's first (and Chief) wife Nefertiti disappears from the record. The name itself is cause for much debate. It appears to be a "pet" form, rather.
• 1362 BC - Birth of the later Pharaoh Amenhotep IV Akhenaton to Amenhotep III and his Queen Tiy.