Battle of Megiddo: Thutmose III Defeats Canaanite Coalition, First Recorded Battle
Thutmose III chose the narrow Aruna pass over safer routes, ignoring every advisor who told him it was suicide. His gamble worked. The Canaanite coalition waited at the wrong exits while Egyptian chariots emerged single-file, reformed, and caught them completely exposed on the plain. The siege of Megiddo itself dragged seven months—long enough that we know this detail because Thutmose's scribe Tjaneni actually bothered writing it down. First battle account in history that reads like someone was actually there. Everything before this is myth and poetry. After: military records.
May 9, 1457 BC
Key Figures & Places
What Else Happened on May 9
Athanasius ascended to the patriarchate of Alexandria, launching a decades-long defense of Nicene Christianity against the rising tide of Arianism. His relentle…
inauguration de la basilique Saint-Apollinaire in Classe.
Melus of Bari had already tried once to throw off Byzantine rule and failed. But in 1009, this Lombard nobleman tried again, rallying forces in the port city th…
En la actual España: los bereberes, ayudados por Sancho García (conde de Castilla), se apoderan de la ciudad palatina cordobesa de Medina Azahara, residencia de…
Victor III est intronisé pape.
The roof was gone before they finished the walls. Lincoln Cathedral's consecration in 1092 came twenty years into construction—they blessed a building site, ess…
Talk to History
Have a conversation with historical figures who witnessed this era. Ask questions, explore perspectives, and bring history to life.