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| 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 found1.
- Biblical Exodus, according to Simcha Jacobovich in the earliest suggestion of the documentary Exodus Decoded.
- Polynesians settle in Fiji.
- c. 1500 BC — Mycenaean civilization starts in Ancient Greece.
- 1500 BC–500 BC — Vedas are composed.
Significant people
References
- ^ "The Ancestry of the Domestic Ferret" (html). Retrieved on 2007-11-07.
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