1530s BC

Millennium:	2nd millennium BC
Centuries:	17th century BC – 16th century BC – 15th century BC
Decades:	1560s BC 1550s BC 1540s BC – 1530s BC – 1520s BC 1510s BC 1500s BC
Years:	1539 BC 1538 BC 1537 BC 1536 BC 1535 BC 1534 BC 1533 BC 1532 BC 1531 BC 1530 BC
Categories:	Births – Deaths – Architecture Establishments – Disestablishments

Events and trends

• 1539 BC—End of Seventeenth dynasty of Egypt, start of the Eighteenth Dynasty.
• 1539 BC—Approximate first use of the Valley of the Kings.
• 1534 BC—The oldest dated star chart was made in Ancient Egypt.
• 1530 BC—End of the First Dynasty of Babylon and the start of the Kassite Dynasty—see History of Iraq.