He successfully defeated Necho I, the puppet ruler installed by Ashurbanipal, taking Thebes in the process.

* 664 BC: Psammetichus I succeeds Necho I as king of Lower Egypt.

* 610 BC: Necho II succeeds Psammetichus I as king of Egypt.

* 664 BC — Death of Necho I, king of Egypt

* 610 BC — Necho II succeeds Psamtik I ( Psammetichus ) as king of Egypt.

* 664 BC: Psamtik I succeeds Necho I as king of Lower Egypt.

* 664 BC: Death of Necho I, king of Egypt

Necho II was the son of Psammetichus I by his Great Royal Wife Mehtenweskhet.

* The canal from the Nile River to the Red Sea, initially started but not completed by the Egyptian pharaoh Necho II and repaired by the Persian king Darius I, is again repaired and made operational by Ptolemy II.

Taharqa fled to the south, and Esarhaddon reorganized the political structure in the north, establishing Necho I as king at Sais.

* Necho I ( Menkheperre ) 672-664

All of the vanquished leaders save one were sent to Nineveh, only Necho I the native Egyptian Prince of Sais, convinced the Assyrians of his loyalty and was sent back to become the Assyrian puppet Pharaoh of Egypt.

Psamtik was the son of Necho I who died in 664 BC when the Kushite king Tantamani tried unsuccessfully to seize control of lower Egypt from the Assyrian Empire.

Psamtik and Mehtenweshket were the parents of Necho II, Merneith, and the Divine Adoratice Nitocris I.

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Manetho's Necho is King Necho I ( 672 BC-664 BC ) Manetho gives his reign as 8 years.

Necho I ( sometimes Nekau ) ( 672 BC – 664 BC ) was the prince or governor of the Egyptian city of Sais.

Egypt was reunified by his son Psamtik I. Necho I is primarily known from Assyrian documents but is now also attested in one contemporary Egyptian document from his reign.

Necho married Istemabet, and they were the parents of Psamtik I and his sister.

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* 609 BC: Jehoahaz succeeds his father Josiah as King of Judah, but is quickly deposed by Necho, who installs Jehoahaz's brother Jehoiakim in his place.

Jehoahaz succeeds his father Josiah as King of Judah, but is quickly deposed by Necho, who installs Jehoahaz's brother Jehoiakim in his place.

On his return march, he found that the Judeans had selected Jehoahaz to succeed his father Josiah, whom Necho deposed and replaced with Jehoiakim.

On his return march, Necho found that Jehoahaz had been selected to succeed his father, Josiah.

On his return from Syria and Mesopotamia, Necho II captured and deposed Jehoahaz, the son of Josiah who had just succeeded his father on the throne.

* 595 BC — Psamtik II succeeds Necho II as king of Egypt.

Necho II died in 595 BC and was succeeded by his son, Psamtik II, as the next pharaoh of Egypt.

Thus, Ramses I was an alter-ego of Necho I, Seti I of Psamtik I, Ramses II of Necho II, and Merneptah of Apries.

After Sennacherib's fall Hezekiah gained possession of it, but when Josiah was slain by Pharaoh Necho, the latter took it away.

Another canal probably incorporating a portion of the first was constructed under the reign of Necho II and completed by Darius.

Herodotus mentions that the Egyptian pharaoh Necho II ( 610 – 595 BC ) built triremes on the Nile, for service in the Mediterranean, and in the Red Sea, but this reference is disputed by modern historians, and attributed to a confusion, since " triērēs " was by the 5th century used in the generic sense of " warship ", regardless its type.

These sailors and earlier explorers of the area such as those sponsored by Necho II were in direct or indirect contact with trading centers in Egypt and elsewhere which would certainly facilitate the spread of the stories of these real werewolf-like creatures.

The Book of Chronicles gives a lengthier account and 2 Chronicles 35: 20 states that when Josiah had prepared the temple, Necho king of Egypt came up to fight against the Babylonians at Carchemish on the Euphrates River and that King Josiah was fatally wounded by an Egyptian archer.

According to the Book of Jeremiah in the summer of 605 BC Carchemish was the site of an important battle was fought by the Babylonian army of Nebuchadrezzar II and that of Pharaoh Necho II of Egypt.

Upon his ascension, Necho was faced with the chaos created by the raids of the Cimmerians and the Scythians, who had not only ravaged Asia west of the Euphrates, but had also helped the Babylonians shatter the Assyrian Empire.

At the head of a large army, consisting mainly of his mercenaries, Necho took the coast route Via Maris into Syria, supported by his Mediterranean fleet along the shore, and proceeded through the low tracts of Philistia and Sharon.

Necho responded the following year by retaking Kumukh after a four month siege, and executed the Babylonian garrison.

Necho also formed an Egyptian navy by recruiting displaced Ionian Greeks.

Pottsville's anthracite coal history began in 1790 when it was discovered by hunter Necho Allen.

In late colonial times, the river became an increasingly important transportation corridor with the discovery of anthracite coal by Necho Allen in its upper reaches in the mountains.

* 609 BC: Jerusalem becomes part of the Empire of the Twenty-sixth dynasty of Egypt after Josiah of Judah is killed by the army of Pharaoh Necho II at the Battle of Megiddo ( 609 BC ).

* 605 BC: Jerusalem switches its tributary allegiance back to the Neo-Babylonians after Necho II is defeated by Nebuchadnezzar II at the Battle of Carchemish.

The Egyptian army of Pharaoh Necho II was delayed at Megiddo by the forces of King Josiah of Judah.

He reigned for only three months, before being deposed by the Egyptian Pharaoh Necho II () and taken into Egytian captivity.