Centuries: 17th century BC - 16th century BC - 15th century BC

Decades: 1550s BC 1540s BC 1530s BC 1520s BC 1510s BC - 1500s BC - 1490s BC 1480s BC 1470s BC 1460s BC 1450s BC

Events and trends

• The element Mercury has been discovered in Egyptian tombs dating from this decade.
• Settlers from Crete, Greece move to Miletus, Turkey.
• 1506 BC - Cecrops, legendary King of Athens, dies after a reign of 50 years. Having survived his own son, he is succeeded by Cranaus.
• Egypt conquers Nubia and the Levant (1504 BC–1492 BC).
• Earliest remains of domesticated ferrets found.
• Date of the Biblical Exodus, according to Simcha Jacobovich in the documentary Exodus Decoded.

Significant people

• Thutmose II of Egypt, Pharaoh of the eighteenth dynasty of Egypt (1518 BC–1504 BC).
• Thutmose III of Egypt, Pharaoh of the eighteenth dynasty of Egypt (1503 BC–1426 BC).

1500s BC

Años 1500 adC | -1500 | 0. roky 16. storočia pred Kr. | 1500-vuosikymmen eaa | MA 1500. yıllar | 前1500年代