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| c. 1540 BC |
| | | The New Kingdom begins in Egypt, bringing the most spectacular of all the dynasties | |
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| c. 1540 BC |
| | | The god Osiris, in his tall white headdress, represents in Egyptian tombs the idea of resurrection in the next world | |
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| c. 1531 BC |
| | | Babylon is destroyed by the Hittites, invaders from Anatolia, but reestablishes itself in subsequent centuries | |
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| c. 1525 BC |
| | | The eruption of a volcano, on the island of Thera, entombs and preserves houses with frescoes in the Minoan city of Akrotiri | |
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| c. 1520 BC |
| | | Thutmose I extends Egyptian control as far up the Nile as Abu Hamad | |
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| c. 1500 BC |
| | | The Maya are believed to have lived in the same region from about 1500 BC to the present day - America's longest example of continuity | |
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| c. 1500 BC |
| | | A copper trumpet is in use in Egypt, forerunner of the brass instruments of the orchestra | |
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| c. 1500 BC |
| | | The Jews adopt a long-established Egyptian ritual - the circumcision of boys | |
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| c. 1500 BC |
| | | The Slavs settle in the regions of eastern Europe and western Russia | |
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| c. 1500 BC |
| | | The temples of Karnak and Luxor, in ancient Thebes, introduce the massive stone architecture of column and lintel | |
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