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Millennium:	2nd millennium BC
Centuries:	16th century BC – 15th century BC – 14th century BC
Decades:	1500s BC 1490s BC 1480s BC – 1470s BC – 1460s BC 1450s BC 1440s BC
Years:	1479 BC 1478 BC 1477 BC 1476 BC 1475 BC 1474 BC 1473 BC 1472 BC 1471 BC 1470 BC
Categories:	Births – Deaths – Architecture Establishments – Disestablishments

[edit] Events

• c. 1478 BC–1390 BC—Hand mirror, Eighteenth dynasty of Egypt, is made. It is now at The Brooklyn Museum of Art, 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 Bahri is build. Eighteenth dynasty of Egypt.
• c. 1473 BC–1458 BC: Hatshepsut as sphinx, from Deir el-Bahri was made. Eighteenth dynasty of Egypt. It is now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.

[edit] Significant people

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