Events and trends

• 1539 BC—End of Seventeenth dynasty of Egypt
  Seventeenth dynasty of Egypt
  The Fifteenth, Sixteenth and Seventeenth Dynasties of ancient Egypt are often combined under the group title, Second Intermediate Period. The Seventeenth Dynasty dates approximately from 1580 to 1550 BC.-Rulers:...
  
  , start of the Eighteenth Dynasty
  Eighteenth dynasty of Egypt
  The eighteenth dynasty of ancient Egypt is perhaps the best known of all the dynasties of ancient Egypt...
  
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• 1539 BC—Approximate first use of the Valley of the Kings
  Valley of the Kings
  The Valley of the Kings , less often called the Valley of the Gates of the Kings , is a valley in Egypt where, for a period of nearly 500 years from the 16th to 11th century BC, tombs were constructed for the Pharaohs and powerful nobles of the New Kingdom .The valley stands on the west bank of...
  
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• 1534 BC—The oldest dated star chart was made in Ancient Egypt
  Ancient Egypt
  Ancient Egypt was an ancient civilization of Northeastern Africa, concentrated along the lower reaches of the Nile River in what is now the modern country of Egypt. Egyptian civilization coalesced around 3150 BC with the political unification of Upper and Lower Egypt under the first pharaoh...
  
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• 1530 BC—End of the First Dynasty of Babylon and the start of the Kassite Dynasty
  Kassites
  The Kassites were an ancient Near Eastern people who gained control of Babylonia after the fall of the Old Babylonian Empire after ca. 1531 BC to ca. 1155 BC...
  
  —see History of Iraq
  History of Iraq
  Iraq, known in Classical Antiquity as Mesopotamia, was home to some of the oldest civilizations in the world, with a cultural history of over 10,000 years. hence its common epithet, the Cradle of Civilization. Mesopotamia, as part of the larger Fertile Crescent, was a significant part of the...
  
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