15th century BCE - Definition and Overview

(16th century BC - 15th century BC - 14th century BC - other centuries)

(1500s BC - 1490s BC - 1480s BC - 1470s BC - 1460s BC - 1450s BC - 1440s BC - 1430s BC - 1420s BC - 1410s BC - 1400s BC - other decades)

(3rd millennium BC - 2nd millennium BC - 1st millennium BC)

Events

• 1504 BC - 1492 BC -- Egypt conquers Nubia and the Levant
• 1420 BC -- Hebrew Exodus from Egypt (one proposed date)
• Myceneans conquers Greece and border of Anatolia

Significant persons

• 1470s BC -- female pharaoh Hatshepsut of Egypt

Inventions, discoveries, introductions