1490s BC

Events and trends

• Egypt conquers Nubia and the Levant.
• 1500 BC – 1400 BC: The Battle of the Ten Kings took place around this time.
• 1500 BC: Coalescence of a number of cultural traits including undecorated pottery, megalithic burials, and millet-bean-rice agriculture indicate the beginning of the Mumun Pottery Period in the Korean peninsula.
• 1497 BC—Cranaus, legendary King of Athens, is deposed after a reign of 10 years by his son-in-law Amphictyon of Thessaly, son of Deucalion and Pyrrha.
• 1493 BC—Thutmose I died.
• c. 1492 BC—Thutmose I dies.
• 1492 BC—April 3—Lunar Saros 37 begins.
• 1491 BC—According to James Ussher's chronology, this is when Moses led the Hebrews from Egypt. This was called the Exodus.

  Significant people

• Thutmose II of Egypt, Pharaoh of the eighteenth dynasty of Egypt.