15th century BC

Template:Short description Template:Redirect Template:More citations needed Template:Centurybox The 15th century BC was the century that lasted from 1500 BC to 1401 BC.

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Map of the Near East in 1450 BCE.

Events

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Statue of Thutmosis III at the Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna

• 1504 BC – 1492 BC: Egypt conquers Nubia and the Levant.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• Template:Circa 1500 BC – Meteorite impact that formed the Kaali crater in Estonia.
• 1500 BC – 1400 BC: The Battle of the Ten Kings took place around this time.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• 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.<ref>Template:Cite journal</ref>
• 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.Template:Citation needed
• 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.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• c. 1480 BC: Queen Hatshepsut succeeded by her stepson and nephew Thutmosis III. Period of greatest Egyptian expansion (4th Nile cataract to the Euphrates).<ref>Egypt experienced its greatest territ . expansion( from the Euphrates to the 4th Cataract of the Nile ) .</ref>
• c. 1469 BC: In the Battle of Megiddo, Egypt defeats Canaan (Low Chronology).<ref name="Military History">Template:Cite journal</ref>
• c. 1460 BC: The Kassites overrun Babylonia and found a dynasty there that lasts for 576 years and nine months.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref><ref>Template:Cite book</ref><ref>Template:Cite book</ref><ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• 1437 BC: Legendary King Erichthonius I of Athens dies after a reign of 50 years and is succeeded by his son Pandion I.Template:Citation needed
• 1430 BC – 1178 BC: Beginning of Hittite empire.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• c. 1420 BC: Crete conquered by Mycenae—start of the Mycenaean period. First Linear B tablets.Template:Citation needed
• 1400 BC: In Crete the use of bronze helmets (discovery at Knossos).<ref>Template:Cite journal</ref>
• 1400 BC: Palace of Minos destroyed by fire.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• c. 1400 BC: Linear A reaches its peak of popularity.Template:Citation needed
• c. 1400 BC: The height of the Canaanite town of Ugarit. Royal Palace of Ugarit is built.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• Myceneans conquers Greece and border of Anatolia.
• The Tumulus culture flourishes.Template:Citation needed
• Earliest traces of Olmec civilization.<ref name=Olmec>Diehl, Richard A. (2004). The Olmecs : America's First Civilization. London: Thames and Hudson. pp. 9–25. Template:ISBN.</ref>

Inventions, discoveries, introductions

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Sovereign states

See: List of sovereign states in the 15th century BC.