1530s BC.html

Millennium:	2nd millennium BC
Centuries:	17th century BC - 16th century BC - 15th century BC
Decades:	1560s BC 1550s BC 1540s BC - 1530s BC - 1520s BC 1510s BC 1500s BC
Years:	1539 BC 1538 BC 1537 BC 1536 BC 1535 BC 1534 BC 1533 BC 1532 BC 1531 BC 1530 BC
Categories:	Births - Deaths - Architecture Establishments - Disestablishments

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.¹
1530 BC — End of the First Dynasty of Babylon and the start of the Kassite Dynasty — see History of Iraq.

^ von Spaeth, Ove (2000). "Dating the Oldest Egyptian Star Map". Centaurus International Magazine of the History of Mathematics, Science and Technology 42 (3): 159–179, http://www.moses-egypt.net/star-map/senmut1-mapdate_en.asp. Retrieved on 21 October 2007.