1500s BC (decade)

Millennium:	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 – Architecture Establishments – Disestablishments

Events and trends

• The element Mercury has been discovered in Egyptian tombs dating from this decade.
• 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. Alternatively, a date of c. 1504 BC is a possibility.
• Egypt conquers Nubia and the Levant (1504 BC–1492 BC).
• Earliest remains of domesticated ferrets found.
• Biblical Exodus, according to Simcha Jacobovici in the earliest suggestion of the documentary Exodus Decoded.
• Polynesians settle in Fiji.
• c. 1500 BC — Mycenaean civilization starts in Ancient Greece.
• c. 1500 BC - Formative/Preclassic period starts in Mesoamerica.
• 1500 BC–500 BC—Vedas are composed.