17th century BC

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Centuries:	18th century BC - 17th century BC - 16th century BC
Decades:	1690s BC 1680s 1670s 1660s 1650s 1640s 1630s 1620s 1610s 1600s BC

Millennia:		3rd millennium BC -	2nd millennium BC -	1st millennium BC

17th century BC by topic
Arts and science
Architecture - Art - Literature - Music - Science
Politics
State leaders - Sovereign states
Other topics
Births - Deaths - Sports
By place
China - Egypt

1 Events
2 Significant persons
3 Deaths
4 References

[edit] Events

Satellite image of Thera, centre location of the Minoan eruption, one possible source of seventeenth century BC climatic disturbances

1700 – 1500 BC -- Hurrian conquests.
c. 1700 BC - The last species of mammoth became extinct on Wrangel Island.
1700 BC - Belu-bani became the King of Assyria.
c. 1700 BC - beginning of the Late Minoan period on Crete
c. 1700 BC - Lila-Ir-Tash started to rule the Elamite Empire.
c. 1698 BC - Lila-Ir-Tash the ruler of the Elamite Empire died. Temti-Agun I started to rule the Elamite Empire.
1691 BC - Belu-bani, the King of Assyria died.
c. 1690 BC - Temti-Agun I, the ruler of the Elamite Empire, died. Tan-Uli started to rule the Elamite Empire.
1690 BC - Libaia became the King of Assyria.
1680s BC - Egypt: Start of Sixteenth Dynasty.
1680s BC - Egypt: Development of leavened bread (date approximate).
1670s BC - Egypt: Start of Fifteenth Dynasty.
1673 BC - Sharma-Adad I became the King of Assyria.
1661 BC - Iptar-Sin became the King of Assyria.
1650s BC - Egypt: Start of Seventeenth Dynasty.
c. 1655 BC - Tan-Uli, the ruler of the Elamite Empire, died.
1649 BC - Bazaia became the King of Assyria.
1633 BC -- End of the Thirteenth and Fourteenth dynasties of Egypt, start of the Fifteenth dynasty.
1627 BC – Beginn of a several years lasting cooling of world climate recorded in tree-rings all over the world.^[1] It might have been caused by the Minoan eruption of Thera^[2] or the Avellino eruption of Mount Vesuvius.^[3]
1625 BC - Samsu-Ditana becomes King of Babylon (middle chronology).
1621 BC - Lullaia becomes the King of Assyria.
1620 BC - Mursili I becomes King of the Hittite Empire (middle chronology).
1615 BC - Shu-Ninua became the King of Assyria.
1601 BC - Sharma-Adad II became the King of Assyria.
1600s BC - Egypt: End of Fourteenth Dynasty.
1600s BC - The creation of one of the oldest surviving astronomical documents, a copy of which was found in the Babylonian library of Ashurbanipal: a 21-year record of the appearances of Venus (which the early Babylonians called Nindaranna).
1600s BC - The end of the Indus Valley civilization.
1600s BC - The overthrow of the ruling Amorite dynasty in Aleppo, Syria.
1600s BC - The date of the earliest discovered rubber balls.
1600s BC - Egypt conquered by Asian tribes known as the Hyksos - see History of ancient Israel and Judah.
Unetice culture
Development of leavened bread in Egypt.
Development of the windmill in Persia.

[edit] Significant persons

Jie , The last ruler of Xia Dynasty, ruled China for 52 years until 1600 BC according to the Xia Shang Zhou Chronology Project.

[edit] Deaths

1695 BC - Sarah, wife of Abraham, according to the Hebrew Calendar
1686 BC - Hammurabi (short chronology).
1684 BC - Heremon, Irish legend.
1677 BC - Terah, father of Abraham, according to the Hebrew Calendar.
1664 BC - Arpachshad, son of Ham, son of Noah, according to the Hebrew Calendar.
1637 BC - Abraham according to Jewish calculations. (2,123 years after biblical creation)
1634 BC - Shelah, son of Arpachshad, according to the Hebrew Calendar
1602 BC - Shem, son of Noah, according to the Hebrew Calendar

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Centuries and Millennia

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4th:	31st	32nd

[edit] References

^ LaMarche, Valmore C. Jr. & Hirschboeck, Katherine K. (1984). "Frost rings in trees as records of major volcanic eruptions". Nature 307: 121-126. DOI:10.1038/307121a0.
^ Baillie, M. G. L. & Munro, M. A. R. (1988). "Irish tree rings, Santorini and volcanic dust veils". Nature 332: 344-346. DOI:10.1038/332344a0.
^ Vogel, J. S. et al. (1990). "Vesuvius/Avellino, one possible source of seventeenth century BC climatic disturbances". Nature 344: 534-537. DOI:10.1038/344534a0.