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The 'seventeenth century BC' was the time period from 1700 BC to 1601 BC.

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Events

Significant persons

Deaths

Decades and Years

References

Events

★ 1700

★ c. 1700 BC — The last species of mammoth became extinct on Wrangel Island.

★ c. 1700 BC: Indus Valley Civilization comes to an end but is continued by the Cemetery H culture

★ 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.

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.

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

Decades and Years

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