1500S BC

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Events and trends

Significant people

Events and trends

★ The element Mercury has been discovered in Egyptian tombs dating from this decade.

★ 1509 BC — Beginning of current Baktun cycle in the Mayan calendar.

★ 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.

★ c. 1504 BC — Thutmose I starts to rule (other date is 1506 BC).

★ 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.

★ Polynesians settle in Fiji.

★ c. 1500 BC — Mycenaean civilization starts in Ancient Greece.

★ 1500 BC–500 BC — Vedas are composed.

★ c. 1500 BC - Shang Dynasty starts in Ancient China.

Significant people

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