Memphis: All Data
Memphis is a city in Egypt. This page covers its chronology of mentions across 5,500 years of history, including capitals, battles, events and subdivisions. Part of Phersu Atlas.
1. Lists and Timelines
Memphis: Chronology of Mentions
Note: For polities of antiquity, the listed capital or subdivision capital may also represent one or several of the most important cities of the region.
3499 BC
Capital of White Walls Land
3249 BC
Capital of Lower Egypt
3000 BC
Subdivision Capital of the Nome of White Walls Land, part of Ancient Egypt
2699 BC
Mentioned in Event: Split of Ancient Egypt in Lower and Higher Egypt
2685 BC
Capital of Ancient Egypt
719 BC
Capital of Ancient Egypt
662 BC
Mentioned in: Battle of Memphis (ca.662 BC), part of Ashurbanipal's second invasion
524 BC
Capital of Ancient Egypt
500 BC
Subdivision Capital of the Satrapy of Mudraya (Egypt), part of Achaemenid Empire
342 BC
Capital of Ancient Egypt
331 BC
Mentioned in Event: Conquest of the Achaemenid Empire
315 BC
Mentioned in Event: Consolidation of the borders after the Second War of the Diadochi
169 BC
Mentioned in Event: Egypt becomes a Seleucid puppet state
168 BC
Mentioned in Event: Revolt of Egypt against the Seleucids
29 BC
Mentioned in Event: Egypt becomes a Roman province
270 AD
Mentioned in Event: Secession of the Kingdom of Palmyra
273 AD
Mentioned in Event: Reconquest of the Kingdom of Palmyra
286 AD
Mentioned in Event: Early Tetrarchic Period
306 AD
Mentioned in Event: Civil wars of the Tetrarchy
314 AD
Mentioned in Event: Civil wars of the Tetrarchy
325 AD
Mentioned in Event: Civil wars of the Tetrarchy
337 AD
Mentioned in Event: Division of the Empire among the sons of Constantine the Great
353 AD
Mentioned in Event: Roman civil war of 350-353
395 AD
Mentioned in Event: Definitive Division of the Roman Empire