1500s BC

Millennia:	2nd millennium BC
Centuries:	17th century BC - 16th century BC - 15th century BC
Decades:	1530s BC 1520s BC 1510s BC - 1500s BC - 1490s BC 1480s BC 1470s BC
Years:	1509 BC 1508 BC 1507 BC 1506 BC 1505 BC 1504 BC 1503 BC 1502 BC 1501 BC 1500 BC
Categories:	Births - Deaths - State leaders - Sovereign states Establishments - Disestablishments

[edit] 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^{[citation needed]}.
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.