1470s BC

Time period

The 1470s BC was a decade lasting from January 1, 1479 BC to December 31, 1470 BC.

Millennium
2nd millennium BC
Centuries
16th century BC 15th century BC 14th century BC
Decades
1490s BC 1480s BC 1470s BC 1460s BC 1450s BC
Years
1479 BC 1478 BC 1477 BC 1476 BC 1475 BC 1474 BC 1473 BC 1472 BC 1471 BC 1470 BC
Categories
Deaths
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Events

c. 1478 BC–1390 BC—Hand mirror, Eighteenth Dynasty of Egypt, is made. It is now at the Brooklyn Museum, New York.
c. 1473 BC—Hatshepsut (18th Dynasty) started to rule. She is a daughter of Thutmose I. Married to her half brother Thutmose II.
c. 1473 BC–1458 BC – Funerary temple of Hatshepsut, Deir el-Bahari is built. Eighteenth Dynasty of Egypt.
c. 1473 BC–1458 BC—Hatshepsut as sphinx, from Deir el-Bahari was made. Eighteenth Dynasty of Egypt. It is now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.

Thutmose III, Pharaoh of the Eighteenth Dynasty (1479 BC–1425 BC). He was the first who called himself "pharaoh"^[1]
Hatshepsut, female Pharaoh of the 18th Dynasty (1473 BC–1458 BC)

^ Schulman, Alan R. (1965-10-01). "The Chronology of the Amarna Letters, with Special Reference to the Hypothetical Coregency of Amenophis III and Akhenaten. By Edward Fay Campbell Jr". American Journal of Archaeology. 69 (4): 5. doi:10.2307/502193. ISSN 0002-9114.