1530s BC

Events and trends

• 1539 BC — End of Seventeenth dynasty of Egypt, start of the Eighteenth Dynasty.
• 1539 BC — Approximate first use of the Valley of the Kings.
• 1534 BC — The oldest dated star chart was made in Ancient Egypt.
• 1530 BC — End of the First Dynasty of Babylon and the start of the Kassite Dynasty — see History of Iraq.

Significant people

References