Century · 1500 BCE – 1401 BCE
The world in the 15th century BCE
From 1500 BCE to 1401 BCE the atlas holds 43 states standing at some time, 1 of them founded in it - Seha River Land the best known - and 2 ending in it. 4 wars, risings, treaties, discoveries and other events began - Battle of Megiddo, Battle of the Ten Kings and Hittite plague the best known of the events; 20 people were born.
A century here is counted as Wikidata counts it, 1500 BCE to 1401 BCE, and holds every row that began in it, however coarsely dated.
What began in the 15th century BCE
By decade first - wars and battles in red, risings, regime changes and massacres beside them, everything else in grey - then by kind, the best known first.
Wars and battles 2
- Battle of Megiddo · battle · 1457 BCE
- Battle of the Ten Kings · battle · 1401 BCE
Famine and plague 1
- Hittite plague · plague · 1401 BCE
Works and ideas 1
- Zoroastrianism · religion · 1500 BCE
States founded and fallen
Founded 1
- Seha River Land · state · 1430 – 1185 BCE
Ended 2
- Kerma culture · state · 3500 – 1500 BCE
- First Sealand dynasty · state · 1732 – 1460 BCE
Born in the 15th century BCE
The best known first, by how many Wikipedias write about them.
- Akhenaten · ruler · 1401 – 1336 BCE
- Ay · ruler · 1401 BCE
- Amenhotep II · ruler · 1441 – 1401 BCE
- Smenkhkare · statesperson · 1401 – 1334 BCE
- Shalmaneser I · ruler · 1401 – 1301 BCE
- Adad-nirari I · ruler · 1401 – 1274 BCE
- Meritaten · ruler · 1401 BCE
- Ashur-uballit I · ruler · 1401 – 1318 BCE
- Neferneferuaten · monarch · 1401 BCE
- Arik-den-ili · ruler · 1401 – 1361 BCE
- Eriba-Adad I · ruler · 1401 – 1366 BCE
- Burna-Buriash II · ruler · 1401 BCE
- Enlil-nirari · ruler · 1401 – 1307 BCE
- Xiao Yi of Shang · ruler · 1401 – 1325 BCE
- Kadashman-Enlil I · ruler · 1401 BCE
- Kurigalzu II · ruler · 1401 BCE
- Kadashman-Turgu · ruler · 1401 – 1301 BCE
- Nazi-Maruttash · ruler · 1401 – 1301 BCE
- Kadashman-Harbe II or Kara-hardash · monarch · 1401 BCE
- Akizzi · ruler · 1401 BCE
States of the 15th century BCE
Every state that stood at some time in the 15th century BCE, by region, the best known first.
Europe3 states
- Minoan civilization · 3300 – 1100 BCE
- Mycenaean Greece · 1600 – 1100 BCE
- Colchis · 1701 – 164 BCE
Middle East and North Africa26 states
- Ancient Egypt · 4001 – 30 BCE
- Babylon · 1894 BCE – 1 CE
- Troy · 3000 BCE – 500 CE
- Assyria · 2025 – 609 BCE
- Phoenicia · 2500 – 64 BCE
- Babylonia · 1901 – 539 BCE
- Hittites · 1600 – 1151 BCE
- Elam · 2700 – 539 BCE
- Mitanni · 1650 – 1260 BCE
- New Kingdom of Egypt · 1550 – 1070 BCE
- Ugarit · 6001 – 1191 BCE
- Kingdom of Kush · 2180 BCE – 350 CE
and 14 more; every state of Middle East and North Africa.
Sub-Saharan Africa1 state
- Land of Punt · 2401 – 1069 BCE
East and Southeast Asia5 states
- Shang dynasty · 1600 – 1046 BCE
- Old Chosŏn · 2333 – 108 BCE
- Shu · 2001 – 316 BCE
- Tamna · 2337 BCE – 1404 CE
- Qi (Henan) · 1601 – 445 BCE
Americas and Oceania2 states
- Maya civilization · 2001 BCE – 1521 CE
- Zapotec civilization · 6701 BCE – 1201 CE
Location unknown6 states
- Kassites · 1531 – 1155 BCE
- Isuwa · 1501 – 824 BCE
- Gandhara (Mahabharata) · 1501 – 535 BCE
- Brihadratha dynasty · 1700 – 682 BCE
- Kikata Kingdom · 1700 – 1300 BCE
- Anarta kingdom · 1501 – 1101 BCE
Open in the atlas
- On the timeline, 1501 BCE – 1401 BCE: every state, war and life of the 15th century BCE, region by region.
- On the map in 1451 BCE: the borders of the year, its cities under their names of the year, and what happened where.
Wikidata (CC0) · data built 2026-10-07 · Pastlas v2.13.1, by Oleh Voronko. The published atlas and its data are for non-commercial use.