15th century BC

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Events

• 1504 BC–1492 BC — Egypt
  Ancient Egypt
  
  Ancient Egypt was an Ancient history civilization in eastern North Africa, concentrated along the lower reaches of the Nile in what is now the modern nation of Egypt....
   conquers Nubia
  Nubia
  
  Nubia is a region in Southern Egypt along the Nile and in what is now northern Sudan. Most of Nubia is situated in Sudan with about a quarter of its territory in Egypt....
   and the Levant
  Levant
  
  The Levant describes, traditionally, the Eastern Mediterranean at large, but can be used as a geographical term that denotes a large area in Western Asia formed by the lands bordering the Eastern shores of the Mediterranean, roughly bounded on the north by the Taurus Mountains, on the south by the Arabian Desert, and on the west by the M...
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• 1500 BC–1400 BC — The Rigveda
  Rigveda
  
  The Rigveda is an ancient Indian subcontinent sacred collection of Vedic Sanskrit hymns dedicated to the Rigvedic deities . It is counted among the four canonical sacred texts of Hinduism known as the Vedas....
   was composed around this time.
• 1500 BC–1400 BC — The Battle of the Ten Kings
  Battle of the Ten Kings
  
  The Battle of the Ten Kings is a battle alluded to in Mandala 7 of the Rigveda . It is a battle between Aryans . It took place as Puru tribes, allied with other tribes of the Punjab region and goaded by the royal sage Vishvamitra, oppose the Trtsu king Sudas in battle, but are defeated as was celebrated in a provocative hymn of Sudas' poet...
   took place around this time.
• 1500 BC — Coalescence of a number of cultural traits including undecorated pottery, megalithic burials, and millet-bean-rice agriculture indicate the beginning of the Mumun Pottery Period
  Mumun pottery period
  
  The Mumun pottery period is an archaeological era in Prehistoric Korea that dates to approximately 1500-300 BC. This period is named after the Korean name for undecorated or plain cooking and storage vessels that form a large part of the pottery assemblage over the entire length of the period, but especially 850-550 B.C....
   in the Korean peninsula
  Korean Peninsula
  
  The Korean Peninsula is a peninsula in East Asia. It extends southwards for about 684 miles from continental Asia into the Pacific Ocean and is surrounded by the Sea of Japan on the east, the East China Sea to the south, and the Yellow Sea to the west, the Korea Strait connecting the first two bodies of water....
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• 1490s BC — Cranaus
  Cranaus
  
  In Greek mythology, Cranaus was the second Kings of Athens of Athens, succeeding Cecrops I.He was autochthonous , like his predecessor. During his reign the flood of the Deucalion story was thought to have occurred....
  , legendary King of Athens
  King of Athens
  
  Before the Athenian democracy, the tyrants, and the archons, the city-state of Athens was ruled by monarch. Most of these are probably mythologyical or only semi-historical....
  , is deposed after a reign of 10 years by his son-in-law Amphictyon
  Amphictyon
  
  Amphictyon , in Greek mythology, was the second son of Deucalion and Pyrrha, although there was also a tradition that he was autochthonous . Amphictyon was king of Thermopylae and married a daughter of Cranaus of Athens....
   of Thessaly
  Thessaly
  
  Thessaly is one of the 13 Peripheries of Greece of Greece, and is further sub-divided into 4 Prefectures of Greece. The capital of the periphery and traditional Regions of Greece is Larissa....
  , son of Deucalion
  Deucalion
  
  In Greek mythology, Deucalion was a son of Prometheus and Pronoia. When the anger of Zeus was ignited against the hubris of the Pelasgians, Zeus decided to put an end to the Ages of Man with the Deluge #The flood of Deucalion....
   and Pyrrha
  Pyrrha
  
  In Greek mythology, Pyrrha was the daughter of Epimetheus and Pandora and wife of Deucalion.When Zeus decided to end the Bronze Age with the great flood, Deucalion and his wife, Pyrrha, were the only survivors....
  .
• 1487 BC — Amphictyon
  Amphictyon
  
  Amphictyon , in Greek mythology, was the second son of Deucalion and Pyrrha, although there was also a tradition that he was autochthonous . Amphictyon was king of Thermopylae and married a daughter of Cranaus of Athens....
  , son of Deucalion
  Deucalion
  
  In Greek mythology, Deucalion was a son of Prometheus and Pronoia. When the anger of Zeus was ignited against the hubris of the Pelasgians, Zeus decided to put an end to the Ages of Man with the Deluge #The flood of Deucalion....
   and Pyrrha
  Pyrrha
  
  In Greek mythology, Pyrrha was the daughter of Epimetheus and Pandora and wife of Deucalion.When Zeus decided to end the Bronze Age with the great flood, Deucalion and his wife, Pyrrha, were the only survivors....
   and legendary King of Athens
  King of Athens
  
  Before the Athenian democracy, the tyrants, and the archons, the city-state of Athens was ruled by monarch. Most of these are probably mythologyical or only semi-historical....
  , dies after a reign of 10 years and is succeeded by Erichthonius I of Athens, a grandson of Cranaus
  Cranaus
  
  In Greek mythology, Cranaus was the second Kings of Athens of Athens, succeeding Cecrops I.He was autochthonous , like his predecessor. During his reign the flood of the Deucalion story was thought to have occurred....
  .
• 1480s BC - Queen Hatsheput succeeded by her son Thutmosis III. Period of greatest Egyptian expansion (4th Nile
  Nile
  
  The Nile is a major north-flowing river in Africa, generally regarded as the List of rivers by length in the world.The Nile has two major tributary, the White Nile and Blue Nile, the latter being the source of most of the Nile's water and silt, but the former being the longer of the two....
   cataract tot Euphrates
  Euphrates
  
  The Euphrates is the western of the two great rivers that define Mesopotamia which flows from Anatolia....
  ).
• c. 1469 BC — In the Battle of Megiddo
  Battle of Megiddo (15th century BC)
  
  The Battle of Megiddo was fought between Ancient Egypt forces under the command of the pharaoh Thutmose III and a large Canaanite coalition under the King of Kadesh....
  , Egypt
  Egypt
  
  Egypt is a country mainly in North Africa, with the Sinai Peninsula forming a land bridge in Western Asia. Covering an area of about , Egypt borders the Mediterranean Sea to the north, the Gaza Strip and Israel to the northeast, the Red Sea to the east, Sudan to the south and Libya to the west....
   defeats Canaan
  Canaan
  
  Canaan is an ancient term for a region encompassing modern-day Israel and Lebanon, the Palestinian Territories, plus adjoining coastal lands and parts of Jordan, Syria and northeastern Egypt....
   (Low Chronology).
• 1460s BC — The Kassites
  Kassites
  
  The Kassites were an ancient Near Eastern tribe who gained control of Babylonia after the fall of the Old Babylonian Empire after ca. 1531 BC to ca....
   overrun Babylonia
  Babylonia
  
  Babylonia was a state in Lower Mesopotamia , Babylon as its franklin. Babylonia emerged when Hammurabi created an empire out of the territories of the former kingdoms of Sumer and Akkad....
   and found a dynasty there that lasts for 576 years and nine months.
• 1446 BC — According to Biblical literalist chronologies, Moses
  Moses
  
  Moses is a Hebrew Bible Hebrews religious leader, lawgiver, prophet, to whom the Mosaic authorship of the Torah is traditionally attributed. Also called Moshe Rabbeinu in Hebrew , he is the most important prophet in Judaism, and also an important prophet of Christianity, Islam, the Bah?'? Faith, Rastafari movement, Chrislam and many ot...
   leads the Exodus
  Exodus
  
  Exodus is the second book of the Jewish Torah and of the Christian Old Testament. It tells how Moses leads the Israelites out of Egypt and through the wilderness to the Mountain of God Sinai....
   of the Jew
  Jew
  
  A Jew is a member of the Jewish people, an ethnoreligious group that traces its ancestry to the Israelites or Hebrews of the Ancient Near East....
  s from Egypt
  Egypt
  
  Egypt is a country mainly in North Africa, with the Sinai Peninsula forming a land bridge in Western Asia. Covering an area of about , Egypt borders the Mediterranean Sea to the north, the Gaza Strip and Israel to the northeast, the Red Sea to the east, Sudan to the south and Libya to the west....
  .
• 1437 BC — Legendary King Erichthonius I of Athens dies after a reign of 50 years and is succeeded by his son Pandion I
  Pandion I
  
  In Greek mythology, Pandion I was a legendary king of Athens, Greece, the son and heir to Erichthonius of Athens and his wife, the naiad Praxithea....
  .
• 1430 BC – 1160 BC — Hittite
  Hittites
  
  The Hittites were an ancient Anatolian people who spoke a Hittite language of the Anatolian languages of the Indo-European languages family, and established a kingdom centered at Hattusa in north-central Anatolia ca....
   New Kingdom established.
• 1430 BC – 1178 BC — Beginning of Hittite empire.
• Approximately 1420 BC — Crete
  Crete
  
  Crete is the largest of the Greek islands and the List of islands in the Mediterranean largest island in the Mediterranean Sea at 8,336 km? ....
   conquered by Mycenae
  Mycenae
  
  Mycenae , is an archaeology in Greece, located about 90 km south-west of Athens, in the north-eastern Peloponnese. Argos is 6 km to the south; Corinth, 48 km to the north....
   — start of the Mycenaean period. First Linear B
  Linear B
  
  Linear B is a script that was used for writing Mycenaean language, an early form of Greek language. It predated the Greek alphabet by several centuries and seems to have died out with the fall of Mycenaean Greece civilization....
   tablets.
• 1400 BC - In Crete
  Crete
  
  Crete is the largest of the Greek islands and the List of islands in the Mediterranean largest island in the Mediterranean Sea at 8,336 km? ....
   the use of bronze helmets (discovery at Knossos
  Knossos
  
  Knossos , also known as the Knossos Palace is the largest Bronze Age archaeological site on Crete and probably the ceremonial and political center of the Minoan civilization and culture....
  ).
• 1400 BC — Palace of Minos destroyed by fire.
• 1400s BC — Linear A
  Linear A
  
  Linear A is one of two linear scripts used in ancient Crete before Mycenaean Greek language Linear B. In Minoan Civilization times, before the Greek Mycenaean dominion, Linear A was the official script for the palaces and the cult and Cretan Hieroglyphs were mainly used on seals....
   reaches its peak of popularity.
• 1400s BC — The height of the Canaanite
  Canaan
  
  Canaan is an ancient term for a region encompassing modern-day Israel and Lebanon, the Palestinian Territories, plus adjoining coastal lands and parts of Jordan, Syria and northeastern Egypt....
   town of Ugarit
  Ugarit
  
  Ugarit was an ancient cosmopolitan port city, sited on the Mediterranean coast. Ugarit sent tribute to Ancient Egypt and maintained trade and diplomatic connections with Cyprus , documented in the archives recovered from the site and corroborated by Mycenaean Greece and Cypriot pottery found there....
  .
• Myceneans conquers Greece
  Greece
  
  Greece , officially the Hellenic Republic , is a country in southeastern Europe, situated on the southern end of the Balkans. It has borders with Albania, Bulgaria and the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia to the north, and Turkey to the east....
   and border of Anatolia
  Anatolia
  
  Anatolia or Asia Minor is a region of Western Asia, comprising most of the modern Republic of Turkey. It is a geographic region bounded by the Black Sea to the north, the Caucasus to the northeast, the Aegean Sea to the west, the Mediterranean Sea to the south, and the Iranian plateau to the east and southeast....
  .
• The Tumulus culture
  Tumulus culture
  
  The Tumulus culture dominated Central Europe during the European Bronze Age .It was the descendant of the Unetice culture. Its heartland the area previously occupied by the Unetice culture besides Bavaria and W?rttemberg....
   flourishes.

Significant persons

• Hatshepsut of Egypt, female Pharaoh
  Pharaoh
  
  Pharaoh is a title used in many modern discussions of the ancient Egyptian rulers of all periods. In antiquity this title began to be used for the ruler who was the religious and political leader of united ancient Egypt, only during the New Kingdom, specifically, during the middle of the Eighteenth dynasty of Egypt....
   of the 18th Dynasty
  Eighteenth dynasty of Egypt
  
  The Eighteenth Dynasty is perhaps the best known of all the dynasties of ancient Egypt. As well as a number of Egypt's most powerful pharaohs, it included Tutankhamun, whose tomb, uncovered by Howard Carter in 1922, was one of the greatest of all archaeological discoveries, being completely undisturbed by tomb robbers....
   (1498–1483 BC)
• Thutmose III of Egypt, Pharaoh
  Pharaoh
  
  Pharaoh is a title used in many modern discussions of the ancient Egyptian rulers of all periods. In antiquity this title began to be used for the ruler who was the religious and political leader of united ancient Egypt, only during the New Kingdom, specifically, during the middle of the Eighteenth dynasty of Egypt....
   of the 18th Dynasty
  Eighteenth dynasty of Egypt
  
  The Eighteenth Dynasty is perhaps the best known of all the dynasties of ancient Egypt. As well as a number of Egypt's most powerful pharaohs, it included Tutankhamun, whose tomb, uncovered by Howard Carter in 1922, was one of the greatest of all archaeological discoveries, being completely undisturbed by tomb robbers....
   (1479 BC–1425 BC)
• Amenhotep II
  Amenhotep II
  
  Amenhotep II was the seventh Pharaoh of the Eighteenth dynasty of Egypt of History of Ancient Egypt. Amenhotep inherited a vast kingdom from his father Thutmose III, and held it by means of a few military campaigns in Syria; however, he fought much less than his father, and his reign saw the effective cessation of hostilities between Egypt a...
  , Pharaoh
  Pharaoh
  
  Pharaoh is a title used in many modern discussions of the ancient Egyptian rulers of all periods. In antiquity this title began to be used for the ruler who was the religious and political leader of united ancient Egypt, only during the New Kingdom, specifically, during the middle of the Eighteenth dynasty of Egypt....
   of Egypt
  Egypt
  
  Egypt is a country mainly in North Africa, with the Sinai Peninsula forming a land bridge in Western Asia. Covering an area of about , Egypt borders the Mediterranean Sea to the north, the Gaza Strip and Israel to the northeast, the Red Sea to the east, Sudan to the south and Libya to the west....
  , (1427 BC–1401 BC)

Inventions, discoveries, introductions

• The Shang Dynasty
  Shang Dynasty
  
  The Shang Dynasty or Yin Dynasty was according to traditional sources the first Dynasties in Chinese history. They ruled in the northeastern region of the area known as "China proper", in the Yellow River valley....
   Chinese
  History of China
  
  China civilization originated in various city-states along the Yellow River valley in the Neolithic era. The written history of China begins with the Shang Dynasty ....
   capital city at Ao had massive defensive walls
  Siege
  
  A siege is a military blockade of a city or fortress with the intent of conquering by Battle of attrition and/or assault. The term derives from sedere, Latin for "to sit." A siege occurs when an attacker encounters a city or fortress that cannot be easily taken by a coup de main and refuses to surrender ....
   of 20 m/65 ft in width at the base and enclosed an area of some 2100 square yards (1800 m²).

Decades and years