1500 BCE
c. 1500 BC: Many scholars date early parts of the Rig Veda to roughly the 16th century. c. 1500 BC: Indo-Aryan migration is often dated to the 17th to 16th centuries. c. 1500 BC — Mycenaean civilization starts in Ancient Greece.
In the 1500s BC, the 16th century BC.
Conflict & Security
- c. 1500 BC: Queen Hatsheput in Egypt (18th Dynasty).source
Exploration & Expansion
- c. 1500 BC — Formative/Preclassic period starts in Mesoamerica.source
- c. 1500 BC — Eleusinian Mysteries start in Ancient Greece.source
- c. 1500 BC — Polynesians settle in Fiji, (controversial Fiji settlement)source
- c. 1500 BC: Indo-Aryan migration is often dated to the 17th to 16th centuries.source
- c. 1500 BC: Settlers from Crete, Greece move to Miletus, Turkey.source
- c. 1500 BC: Early traces of Maya civilization developing in Belize.source
Technology & Infrastructure
- c. 1500 BC: The Phoenicians develop an alphabet—see Timeline of communication technology.source