Millennia:	2nd millennium BC
Centuries:	15th century BC - 14th century BC - 13th century BC
Decades:	1370s BC 1360s BC 1350s BC - 1340s BC - 1330s BC 1320s BC 1310s BC
Years:	1349 BC 1348 BC 1347 BC 1346 BC 1345 BC 1344 BC 1343 BC 1342 BC 1341 BC 1340 BC
Categories:	Births - Deaths - State leaders - Sovereign states Establishments - Disestablishments

Events and trends

• c. 1348 BC — Amenhotep IV changes his name to Akhenaten.
• 1348 BC–1336 BC: Akhenaten and his family, relief from Akhetaten (modern el-Amarna) was made. 18th dynasty. It is now in Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Preussischer Kulturbesitz, Ägyptisches Museum.
• c. 1348 BC–1336 BC: Nefertiti, bust from Akhetaten (modern Amarna) was made. 18th dynasty. It is now in Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Preussischer Kulturbesitz, Ägyptisches Museum.
• c. 1348 BC–1336 BC: Tish-shaped vase, from Akhetaten (modern Tell el-Amarna) was made. 18th dynasty. It is now in the British Museum, London.
• c. 1348 BC–1327 BC: State ship, detail of a tempera fascimile by Charles K. Wilkinson of a wall painting in the tomb of the governor of Nubia Amenhotep Huy in Qurnet Murai was made. 18th dynasty. It is now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
• 1347 BC — Legendary King Erechtheus II is reportedly killed by lightning after a reign of 50 years and is succeeded by his younger brother Cecrops II.
• 1346 BC — Pharaoh Amenhotep IV of Egypt begins his Cult of Aten and begins construction of Amarna intended to be his new capital.
• 1345 BC — Pharaoh Amenhotep IV of Egypt renames himself to Akhenaten.
• 1344 BC–1322 BC — Beginning of Hittite empire.
• c. 1340 BC — Citadel walls are built in Mycenae.

Significant people

• 1341 BC/1340 BC — Birth of Tutankhaten, later Pharaoh of Egypt as Tutankhamun (approximate date)