According to Josephus / Manetho, it was during Pygmalion ’ s seventh year that Dido fled from Tyre.

According to legend related by Manetho, the city was founded by the pharaoh Menes around 3000 BC.

According to Manetho, ancient sources suggest the " white walls " ( Ineb-hedj ) were founded by Menes.

According to Manetho, the first royal palace was founded by Hor-Aha, the successor of Narmer, the founder of the 1st dynasty.

According to Manetho, his worship was instituted by Kaiechos of the Second Dynasty.

* Lamares, Ameres ( According to Manetho )

According to Manetho, he was the throne successor of king Bikheris, but according to archaeological evidences he rather was the successor of king Khafre.

According to the ancient historian Manetho Khafra was followed by king Bikheris, but according to archaeological evidences he was rather followed by king Menkaure.

According to Manetho, this latter revolt occurred during the reign of Neferhotep's successor, Sobekhotep IV, though there is no archaeological proof.

* c. 1700-1550 BC: According to Manetho ( via Josephus ' Against Apion ), the Hyksos invade the region

According the Manetho and the Turin King List, he was succeeded by his son Merenre Nemtyemsaf II, who reigned for just over a year.

According to Manetho, the first king was Menes, but archeological findings support the view that the first pharaoh to claim to have united the two lands was Narmer ( the final king of the Protodynastic Period ).

According to Eusebius ' Chronicon, Manetho had suggested that the great age of antiquity in which the later Egyptians boasted had actually preceded the flood, and that they were really descended from Mizraim, who settled there anew.

According to Manetho, the first king of the unified Upper and Lower Egypt was Menes who is now identified with Narmer.

According to Manetho, he became pharaoh at about the age of thirty and ruled until he was about sixty years old.

According to Manetho, he was carried away by a hippopotamus, the embodiment of the deity Seth.

According to Josephus, Manetho described Osarseph as a tyrannical high priest of Osiris at Heliopolis.

* c. 3100 BC — According to the legend, Menes unifies Upper and Lower Egypt, and a new capital is erected at Memphis.

According to Egyptian tradition Menes, thought to have unified Upper and Lower Egypt, was the first king.

According to ancient tradition, the ruler Menes completed the final unification.

According to Homer, Circe suggested two alternative routes to Odysseus to return to Ithaca: toward the " Wandering Rocks " where King Aeolus reigned or passing between the dangerous Scylla and the whirlpool Charybdis, conventionally identified with the Strait of Messina.

According to the Hebrew Testament, Hezekiah assumed the throne when he was 25 () and reigned for 29 years ().

According to Livy, he reigned for 44 years, until murdered by his treacherous daughter Tullia and son-in-law Tarquinius Superbus.

According to, the Persian emperor, Cyrus the Great ( reigned 559 BCE – 530 BCE ), permitted the return of the exiles to their homeland and ordered the rebuilding of the Temple in Jerusalem ( Zion ).

According to this account, Magnus I of Norway ( reigned 1034 – 1047 ) visited the court of Harthacnut in Denmark, received with all official honors.

According to, Abijah became king of Judah in the 18th year of the reign of Jeroboam, and reigned for three years.

According to Isaac Newton, also a classical scholar, the nine kings reigned an average of 42 years each, which can be used as an estimator of the dates.

According to Isaac Newton, also a classical scholar, the ten kings reigned an average of 38 years each, which can be used as an estimator of the dates.

According to a story recorded by the 16th century antiquarian John Leland, and derived by him from a now lost book in the possession of the Earls of Rutland at Belvoir Castle, there was once a King Alfred III of Mercia, who reigned in the 730s.

According to one reconstruction, he was the son of Ptolemy VI Philometor and Cleopatra II of Egypt, he reigned briefly with his father in 145 BC, and for a short time after that, and was murdered by his uncle, Ptolemy VIII Physcon, who succeeded him.

According to some theories, he was a historical emperor who reigned over Sri Lanka from 2554 BC to 2517 BC.

According to the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, Ecgfrith only reigned for 141 days.

According to the West Saxon Genealogical Regnal List, Ine reigned for 37 years, abdicating in 726.

According to John of Fordun ( 14th century ), Kenneth II of Scotland ( reigned 971-995 ) attempted to change the succession rules.

According to the Chronicle of Fredegar, Recared, King of the Wisigoths ( reigned 586 – 601 ) and first Catholic king of Spain, following his conversion to Catholicism in 587, ordered that all Arian books should be collected and burned ; and all the books of Arian theology were reduced to ashes, with the house in which they had been purposely collected.

According to Hindu legend, the divine king Rama of the Ramayana epic reigned in Ayodhya, the capital of Kosala.

According to the chronology developed by Moskov, Tervel would have reigned 695 – 715.

According to the chronology developed by Moskov, Asparuh would have reigned 668 – 695.

According to the legend of Pope Joan, a woman reigned as pope under the name of John earlier in the 9th century.

According to al-Tabari, Muawiya II reigned only 40 days before he died.

According to the Pali Buddhist text Milinda Pañha King Milinda is said to have reigned from the city around 100 BC.

According to tradition, In Ipole Omu, seven ( 7 ) rulers reigned before Olarooye in the following succession:

According to Geoffrey, he reigned at the same period as Saul in Judea and Eurysthenes in Sparta.