Events
- 1504 BC – 1492 BC: Egypt conquers Nubia and the Levant.
- 1500 BC – 1400 BC: The Rigveda was composed around this time.
- 1500 BC – 1400 BC: The Battle of the Ten Kings took place around this time.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- c. 1480 BC: Queen Hatsheput succeeded by her stepson and nephew Thutmosis III. Period of greatest Egyptian expansion (4th Nile cataract tot Euphrates).
- c. 1469 BC: In the Battle of Megiddo, Egypt defeats Canaan (Low Chronology).
- c. 1460 BC: The Kassites overrun Babylonia and found a dynasty there that lasts for 576 years and nine months.
- 1446 BC (April 25)) or 1444 BC: Date given in the Hebrew Bible for the exodus of Israel from Egypt.
- 1437 BC: Legendary King Erichthonius I of Athens dies after a reign of 50 years and is succeeded by his son Pandion I.
- 1430 BC – 1160 BC: Hittite New Kingdom established.
- 1430 BC – 1178 BC: Beginning of Hittite empire.
- c. 1420 BC: Crete conquered by Mycenae—start of the Mycenaean period. First Linear B tablets.
- 1400 BC: In Crete the use of bronze helmets (discovery at Knossos).
- 1400 BC: Palace of Minos destroyed by fire.
- c. 1400 BC: Linear A reaches its peak of popularity.
- c. 1400 BC: The height of the Canaanite town of Ugarit. Royal Palace of Ugarit is built.
- Myceneans conquers Greece and border of Anatolia.
- The Tumulus culture flourishes.
- Earliest traces of Olmec civiliation.
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