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
- Stonehenge built in Wiltshire, England
- The element Mercury has been discovered in Egyptian tombs dating from this decade
- Settlers from Crete, Greece move to Miletus, Turkey
- Early traces of Maya civilization developing in Belize
- The Phoenicians develop an alphabet - see Timeline of communication technology
- 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)
- Thutmose II of Egypt, Pharaoh of the 18th Dynasty ( 1518 - 1504 BC).
- Thutmose III of Egypt, Pharaoh of the 18th Dynasty ( 1503 BC - 1450 BC).