15th century BC
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Events
- 1504 BC – 1492 BC: Egypt conquers Nubia and the Levant.[1]
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- 1500 BC – 1400 BC: The Battle of the Ten Kings took place around this time.[2]
- 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 on the Korean peninsula.[3]
- c. 1490 BC: Cranaus, legendary King of Athens, is deposed after a reign of 10 years by his son-in-law Amphictyon of Thessaly, son of Deucalion and Pyrrha.Script error: No such module "Unsubst".
- 1487 BC: Amphictyon, son of Deucalion and Pyrrha and legendary King of Athens, dies after a reign of 10 years and is succeeded by Erichthonius I of Athens, a grandson of Cranaus.[4]
- c. 1480 BC: Queen Hatshepsut succeeded by her stepson and nephew Thutmose III. Period of greatest Egyptian expansion (4th Nile cataract to the Euphrates).[5]
- c. 1469 BC: In the Battle of Megiddo, Egypt defeats Canaan (Low Chronology).[6]
- c. 1460 BC: The Kassites overrun Babylonia and found a dynasty there that lasts for 576 years and nine months.[7][8][9][10]
- 1437 BC: Legendary King Erichthonius I of Athens dies after a reign of 50 years and is succeeded by his son Pandion I.Script error: No such module "Unsubst".
- 1430 BC – 1178 BC: Beginning of Hittite empire.[11]
- c. 1420 BC: Crete conquered by Mycenae—start of the Mycenaean period. First Linear B tablets.Script error: No such module "Unsubst".
- 1400 BC: In Crete the use of bronze helmets (discovery at Knossos).[12]
- 1400 BC: Palace of Minos destroyed by fire.[13]
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- c. 1400 BC: The height of the Canaanite town of Ugarit. Royal Palace of Ugarit is built.[14]
- Myceneans conquers Greece and border of Anatolia.
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- Earliest traces of Olmec civilization.[15]
Inventions, discoveries, introductions
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Sovereign states
See: List of sovereign states in the 15th century BC.
References
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