The 1500s BC was a decade lasting from January 1, 1509 BC to December 31, 1500 BC.
Events and trends
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1506 BC
The 1500s BC was a decade lasting from January 1, 1509 BC to December 31, 1500 BC.
Events and trends
* 1506 BC — Cecrops, legendary King of Athens, dies after a reign of 50 years. Having survived his own son, he is succeeded by Cranaus.
*c. 150 ...
—
Cecrops, legendary
King of Athens, dies after a reign of 50 years. Having survived his own son, he is succeeded by
Cranaus.
*c. 1506 BC —
Thutmose I (
Eighteenth dynasty of Egypt) starts to rule. Alternatively, a date of c. 1504 BC is a possibility.
*
Egypt conquers
Nubia and the
Levant (
1504 BC
Fifteen or 15 may refer to:
*15 (number), the natural number following 14 and preceding 16
*one of the years 15 BC, AD 15, 1915, 2015
Music
*Fifteen (band), a punk rock band
Albums
* ''15'' (Buckcherry album), 2005
* ''15'' (Ani Lorak album) ...
–
1492 BC
The 1490s BC was a decade lasting from January 1, 1499 BC to December 31, 1490 BC.
Events and trends
*Egypt conquers Nubia and the Levant ( 1504 BC– 1492 BC).
* 1500 BC: Coalescence of a number of cultural traits including undecorated pottery, ...
).
*Earliest remains of domesticated
ferret
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s found.
*c. 1500 BC —
Polynesians settle in
Fiji
Fiji ( , ,; fj, Viti, ; Fiji Hindi: फ़िजी, ''Fijī''), officially the Republic of Fiji, is an island country in Melanesia, part of Oceania in the South Pacific Ocean. It lies about north-northeast of New Zealand. Fiji consists ...
, (controversial
Fiji settlement)
*c. 1500 BC —
Mycenaean civilization starts in
Ancient Greece.
*c. 1500 BC —
Eleusinian Mysteries start in
Ancient Greece.
*c. 1500 BC —
Formative/Preclassic period starts in
Mesoamerica.
*c. 1500 BC: Many scholars date early parts of the
Rig Veda
The ''Rigveda'' or ''Rig Veda'' ( ', from ' "praise" and ' "knowledge") is an ancient Indian collection of Vedic Sanskrit hymns (''sūktas''). It is one of the four sacred canonical Hindu texts (''śruti'') known as the Vedas. Only one Sh ...
to roughly the 16th century.
*c. 1500 BC: Queen
Hatsheput
Hatshepsut (; also Hatchepsut; Egyptian: '' ḥꜣt- špswt'' "Foremost of Noble Ladies"; or Hatasu c. 1507–1458 BC) was the fifth pharaoh of the Eighteenth Dynasty of Egypt. She was the second historically confirmed female pharaoh, aft ...
in
Egypt (
18th Dynasty).
*c. 1500 BC: The element
Mercury
Mercury commonly refers to:
* Mercury (planet), the nearest planet to the Sun
* Mercury (element), a metallic chemical element with the symbol Hg
* Mercury (mythology), a Roman god
Mercury or The Mercury may also refer to:
Companies
* Merc ...
has been discovered in
Egyptian tombs dating from this decade.
*c. 1500 BC: Settlers from
Crete,
Greece move to
Miletus
Miletus (; gr, Μῑ́λητος, Mī́lētos; Hittite transcription ''Millawanda'' or ''Milawata'' (exonyms); la, Mīlētus; tr, Milet) was an ancient Greek city on the western coast of Anatolia, near the mouth of the Maeander River in a ...
,
Turkey.
*c. 1500 BC: Early traces of
Maya civilization developing in
Belize.
*c. 1500 BC: The
Phoenicians develop an
alphabet—see
Timeline of communication technology
The history of communication technologies (media and appropriate inscription tools) have evolved in tandem with shifts in political and economic systems, and by extension, systems of power. Communication can range from very subtle processes of exc ...
.
*c. 1500 BC:
Indo-Aryan migration is often dated to the 17th to 16th centuries.
*1500 BC–
500 BC
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The year 500 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. In the Roman Empire it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Camerinus and Longus (or, less frequently, year 254 '' Ab urbe condita''). The denomination 500 BC for thi ...
—
Vedas are composed.
*c. 1500 - 1479 BC:
Rice was first introduced in
Indonesia
References
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