Akhenaten's Rule By flinnke Period: 1391 BCE to 1292 BCE Armana Period 1350 BCE Akhenaten begins his rule 1349 BCE Birth of Akhenaten's daughter Meritaten Period: 1349 BCE to 1345 BCE Finishes pyons at Karnak, started by Amenhotep III 1348 BCE Begins work on temples to the Aten at Thebes 1348 BCE Celebrates first Jubilee 1348 BCE Ordered the decoration if his father's pylon gateways at Karnak 1346 BCE Building begins in new capital city, Akhetaten 1346 BCE Birth of Akhenaten's daughters Meketateb and Ankhenspaaten 1344 BCE Central section of Akhetaten completed 1344 BCE Changes name from Amenhotep IV to Akhenaten 1344 BCE Begins working on royal tomb 1342 BCE Goernment moved to Akhetaten 1341 BCE References of all gods except Re are removed, monotheism enforced 1339 BCE Birth of Akhenaten's daughter Neferneferuaten 1338 BCE Reception of foreign ambassadors from Asia, Africa, and the Aegean 1338 BCE Birth of Akhenaten's daughters Neferneferure and Setepenre 1337 BCE Official family is depicted for the last time in full 1337 BCE Akhenaten is visited by his mother, Tiye 1337 BCE Plague hit Egypt along with problems in Syria and Palestine 1336 BCE Death of Akhenaten's Daughter Meketaten 1335 BCE Death of Akhenaten's wife, Queen Nefertiti 1335 BCE Akhenaten's eldest daughter, Meketaten, becomes queen 1334 BCE Coregency between Smenkhkare and Akhenaten 1334 BCE Meketaten marries Smenkhkare 1332 BCE Death of Akhenaten