Pharaoh Amenhotep III of Egypt marries Tiy,…
1389 BCE to 1378 BCE
Amenhotep attempts to connect the Nile and the Red Sea with a canal, this however will not be done successfully until almost a thousand years later with the opening of the Canal of the Pharaohs.
The Egyptians under Amenhotep III, until now allied with the Hittites, change sides and become Mitannian allies with the marriage of the pharaoh to Gilukhepa (the first of a series of diplomatic brides), daughter of Shuttarna II of Mitanni in the tenth year of his reign, around 1378.