1350s BC

Millennium:	2nd millennium BC
Centuries:	15th century BC 14th century BC 13th century BC
Decades:	1370s BC 1360s BC 1350s BC 1340s BC 1330s BC
Years:	1359 BC 1358 BC 1357 BC 1356 BC 1355 BC 1354 BC 1353 BC 1352 BC 1351 BC 1350 BC
Categories:	Deaths

Events and trends

A tomb painting depicting musicians, painted in Thebes, Egypt approximately 1350 BC

• c. 1356 BC – Amenhotep IV begins the worship of Aten in Ancient Egypt, changing his name to Akhenaten and moving the capital to Akhetaten, starting the Amarna Period.
• c. 1352 BC – Amenhotep III (Eighteenth Dynasty of Egypt) dies and is succeeded as Pharaoh by Amenhotep IV.
• 1350 BC – Yin becomes the new capital of Shang dynasty China.