15th century BC

Millennium:	2nd millennium BC
Centuries:	16th century BC; 15th century BC; 14th century BC;
Timelines:	16th century BC; 15th century BC; 14th century BC;
State leaders:	16th century BC; 15th century BC; 14th century BC;
Decades:	1490s BC; 1480s BC; 1470s BC; 1460s BC; 1450s BC; 1440s BC; 1430s BC; 1420s BC; 1410s BC; 1400s BC;
Categories:	Births – Deaths ; Establishments – Disestablishments

The 15th century BC is a century which lasted from 1500 BC to 1401 BC.

Map of the Near East in 1450 BCE.

Events[]

Statue of Thutmosis III at the Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna

1504 BC – 1492 BC: Egypt conquers Nubia and the Levant.^[1]
1500 BC – 1400 BC: The Battle of the Ten Kings took place around this time.^{[citation needed]}
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 in the Korean peninsula.^[2]
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.^{[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.^[3]
c. 1480 BC: Queen Hatshepsut succeeded by her stepson and nephew Thutmosis III. Period of greatest Egyptian expansion (4th Nile cataract to the Euphrates).^[4]
c. 1469 BC: In the Battle of Megiddo, Egypt defeats Canaan (Low Chronology).^[5]

c. 1460 BC: The Kassites overrun Babylonia and found a dynasty there that lasts for 576 years and nine months.^[6]^[7]^[8]^[9]

1437 BC: Legendary King Erichthonius I of Athens dies after a reign of 50 years and is succeeded by his son Pandion I.^{[citation needed]}
1430 BC – 1160 BC: Hittite New Kingdom established.^{[citation needed]}
1430 BC – 1178 BC: Beginning of Hittite empire.^[10]
c. 1420 BC: Crete conquered by Mycenae—start of the Mycenaean period. First Linear B tablets.^{[citation needed]}
1400 BC: In Crete the use of bronze helmets (discovery at Knossos).^[11]
1400 BC: Palace of Minos destroyed by fire.^[12]
c. 1400 BC: Linear A reaches its peak of popularity.^{[citation needed]}
c. 1400 BC: The height of the Canaanite town of Ugarit. Royal Palace of Ugarit is built.^{[citation needed]}
Myceneans conquers Greece and border of Anatolia.
The Tumulus culture flourishes.^{[citation needed]}
Earliest traces of Olmec civilization.^[13]

Inventions, discoveries, introductions[]

The Shang Dynasty Chinese capital city at Ao^{[further explanation needed]} had massive defensive walls of 20 metres (66 ft) in width at the base and enclosed an area of some 2,100 square yards (1,800 m²).

Sovereign states[]

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

References[]

^ The Encyclopedia of Ancient Civilizations of the Near East and Mediterranean. Sharpe Reference. 1997. ISBN 978-1-56324-799-6.
^ Bale, Martin T. (2001). "Archaeology of Early Agriculture in Korea: An Update on Recent Developments". Bulletin of the Indo-Pacific Prehistory Association. 21 (5): 77–84.
^ Newton, Isaac (2009-02-20). Newton's Revised History of Ancient Kingdoms: A Complete Chronology. New Leaf Publishing Group. ISBN 978-0-89051-556-3.
^ Egypt experienced its greatest territ . expansion( from the Euphrates to the 4th Cataract of the Nile ) .
^ Meistrich, Ira (12 June 2006). "Military History: The Birthplace of War". The Quarterly Journal of Military History (Spring 2005). Retrieved 16 February 2018.
^ Sayce, Archibald Henry (1894). The "higher Criticism" and the Verdict of the Monuments. Society for promoting Christian knowledge.
^ Williams, Henry Smith. The Historians' History of the World Vol.1 (of 25) (Illustrations): Prolegomena; Egypt, Mesopotamia. THE TROW PRESS.
^ Larned, Josephus Nelson (1894). Nicea-Tunis. C. A. Nichols Company.
^ Authors, Various (2020-09-28). The Historians' History of the World in Twenty-Five Volumes: Prolegomena; Egypt, Mesopotamia. Library of Alexandria. ISBN 978-1-4656-0802-4.
^ "Old Hittite Kingdom and Hittite Empire (1600 BC - 1200 BC) – Ancient Civilizations". anciv.info. Retrieved 2020-12-25.
^ Hencken, Hugh (1965). "ARCHEOLOGY: Early Greek Armour and Weapons from the End of the Bronze Age to 600 B.C. ANTHONY SNODGRASS". American Anthropologist. 67 (4): 1054–1055. doi:10.1525/aa.1965.67.4.02a00450. ISSN 1548-1433.
^ Sacks, David; Murray, Oswyn (1995). A Dictionary of the Ancient Greek World. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-511206-1.
^ Diehl, Richard A. (2004). The Olmecs : America's First Civilization. London: Thames and Hudson. pp. 9–25. ISBN 0500285039.

[1] The Encyclopedia of Ancient Civilizations of the Near East and Mediterranean. Sharpe Reference. 1997. ISBN 978-1-56324-799-6.

[2] Bale, Martin T. (2001). "Archaeology of Early Agriculture in Korea: An Update on Recent Developments". Bulletin of the Indo-Pacific Prehistory Association. 21 (5): 77–84.

[3] Newton, Isaac (2009-02-20). Newton's Revised History of Ancient Kingdoms: A Complete Chronology. New Leaf Publishing Group. ISBN 978-0-89051-556-3.

[4] Egypt experienced its greatest territ . expansion( from the Euphrates to the 4th Cataract of the Nile ) .

[Military_History-5] Meistrich, Ira (12 June 2006). "Military History: The Birthplace of War". The Quarterly Journal of Military History (Spring 2005). Retrieved 16 February 2018.

[6] Sayce, Archibald Henry (1894). The "higher Criticism" and the Verdict of the Monuments. Society for promoting Christian knowledge.

[7] Williams, Henry Smith. The Historians' History of the World Vol.1 (of 25) (Illustrations): Prolegomena; Egypt, Mesopotamia. THE TROW PRESS.

[8] Larned, Josephus Nelson (1894). Nicea-Tunis. C. A. Nichols Company.

[9] Authors, Various (2020-09-28). The Historians' History of the World in Twenty-Five Volumes: Prolegomena; Egypt, Mesopotamia. Library of Alexandria. ISBN 978-1-4656-0802-4.

[10] "Old Hittite Kingdom and Hittite Empire (1600 BC - 1200 BC) – Ancient Civilizations". anciv.info. Retrieved 2020-12-25.

[11] Hencken, Hugh (1965). "ARCHEOLOGY: Early Greek Armour and Weapons from the End of the Bronze Age to 600 B.C. ANTHONY SNODGRASS". American Anthropologist. 67 (4): 1054–1055. doi:10.1525/aa.1965.67.4.02a00450. ISSN 1548-1433.

[12] Sacks, David; Murray, Oswyn (1995). A Dictionary of the Ancient Greek World. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-511206-1.

[Olmec-13] Diehl, Richard A. (2004). The Olmecs : America's First Civilization. London: Thames and Hudson. pp. 9–25. ISBN 0500285039.

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