1500s BC

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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.^[1]
• 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.

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