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