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15th century BC

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The 15th century BC was the century that lasted from 1500 BC to 1401 BC.

• 1504 BC – 1492 BC: Egypt conquers Nubia and the Levant.^[1]
• 1500 BC – 1400 BC: The Battle of the Ten Kings took place around this time.^[2]
• 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 on the Korean peninsula.^[3]
• c. 1490 BC: Cranaus, legendary King of Athens, is deposed after a reign of 10 years by his son-in-law AmphictyonofThessaly, son of Deucalion and Pyrrha.^{[citation needed]}
• 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.^[4]
• c. 1480 BC: Queen Hatshepsut succeeded by her stepson and nephew Thutmosis III. Period of greatest Egyptian expansion (4th Nile cataract to the Euphrates).^[5]
• c. 1469 BC: In the Battle of Megiddo, Egypt defeats Canaan (Low Chronology).^[6]
• c. 1460 BC: The Kassites overrun Babylonia and found a dynasty there that lasts for 576 years and nine months.^{[7][8][9][10]}

• 1437 BC: Legendary King Erichthonius I of Athens dies after a reign of 50 years and is succeeded by his son Pandion I.^{[citation needed]}
• 1430 BC – 1178 BC: Beginning of Hittite empire.^[11]
• c. 1420 BC: Crete conquered by Mycenae—start of the Mycenaean period. First Linear B tablets.^{[citation needed]}
• 1400 BC: In Crete the use of bronze helmets (discovery at Knossos).^[12]
• 1400 BC: Palace of Minos destroyed by fire.^[13]
• c. 1400 BC: Linear A reaches its peak of popularity.^{[citation needed]}
• c. 1400 BC: The height of the Canaanite town of Ugarit. Royal Palace of Ugarit is built.^[14]
• Myceneans conquers Greece and border of Anatolia.
• The Tumulus culture flourishes.^{[citation needed]}
• Earliest traces of Olmec civilization.^[15]

• The Shang dynasty Chinese capital city at Ao^{[further explanation needed]} had massive defensive walls of 20 metres (66 ft) in width at the base and enclosed an area of some 2,100 square yards (1,800 m²).

See: List of sovereign states in the 15th century BC.