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EVENTS

1700 – 1500 BC -- Hurrian conquests.

1600 BC ^--- — Shang Dynasty of China established.

1595 BC - Sack of Babylon by the Hittite king Mursilis I .

, end of Sixteenth Dynasty , end of Seventeenth Dynasty , start of Eighteenth Dynasty .

1550s BC - The city of Mycenae , located in the northeast Peloponnesus , comes to dominate the rest of Achaea , giving its name to Mycenaean civilization.

1556 BC - Cecrops builds or rebuilds Athens following the great flood of Deucalion and the end of the Golden Age . He becomes the first of several Kings Of Athens whose life account is considered part of Greek Mythology .

1539 BC - End of Seventeenth Dynasty Of Egypt , start of the Eighteenth Dynasty .

1539 BC - Approximate first use of the Valley Of The Kings .

1530 BC - End of the First Dynasty Of Babylon and the start of the Kassite Dynasty - see History Of Iraq .

1525 BC - End of Fifteenth Dynasty Of Egypt .

of Deucalion , according to O'Flaherty , Augustine , Eusebius , and Isidore (bishop of Seville).

1506 BC - Cecrops , legendary King Of Athens , dies after a reign of 50 years. Having survived his own son, he is succeeded by Cranaus .

1504 BC - Egypt started to conquer Nubia and the Levant .

1500s BC - Stonehenge built in Wiltshire , England .

1500s BC - The element Mercury has been discovered in Egypt ian tombs dating from this decade.

1500s BC - Settlers from Crete , Greece move to Miletus , Turkey .

1500s BC - Early traces of Maya Civilization developing in Belize .

1500s BC - The Phoenicia ns develop an Alphabet - see Timeline Of Communication Technology .

1500s BC - Earliest evidence (from Archaeological excavations) of a settlement at Aylesbury , England.

1500 BC - Indus Valley Civilization - The controversial Aryan Invasion Theory is often dated to 1500 BC . Many scholars date the Rig Veda to the period of 1900 to 1200 BC .

Unetice Culture .

SIGNIFICANT PERSONS

, ruled China for 29 years since 1600 BC according to the Xia Shang Zhou Chronology Project .

Kamose , last Pharaoh of the 17th Dynasty of Egypt (1573 - 1570 BC ).

Ahmose I , Pharaoh and founder of the 18th Dynasty of Egypt (1570 - 1546 BC ).

Thutmose II Of Egypt , Pharaoh of the Eighteenth Dynasty Of Egypt ( 1518 BC - 1504 BC ).