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Events and trends

Significant people

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Events and trends

★ 1627 BC — Beginning 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).

Significant people

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References

1. Frost rings in trees as records of major volcanic eruptions, LaMarche, Valmore C. Jr. & Hirschboeck, Katherine K., , , Nature, 1984
2. Irish tree rings, Santorini and volcanic dust veils, Baillie, M. G. L. & Munro, M. A. R., , , Nature, 1988
3. Vesuvius/Avellino, one possible source of seventeenth century BC climatic disturbances, Vogel, J. S. ''et al.'', , , Nature, 1990