1500s BC (decade)

Events and trends

  • The element Mercury has been discovered in Egyptian tombs dating from this decade.
  • 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. 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–1492 BC).
  • Earliest remains of domesticated ferrets found.
  • Biblical Exodus, according to Simcha Jacobovici in the earliest suggestion of the controversial documentary Exodus Decoded.
  • c. 1500 BC — Polynesians settle in Fiji, (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.
  • 1500 BC–500 BC—Vedas are composed.

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