1600s BC
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Centuries: 18th century BC - 17th century BC - 16th century BC
Decades: 1650s BC 1640s BC 1630s BC 1620s BC 1610s BC - 1600s BC - 1590s BC 1580s BC 1570s BC 1560s BC 1550s BC
Events and trends
- Egypt: End of Fourteenth Dynasty
- 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).
- The end of the Indus Valley civilization
- The overthrow of the ruling Amorite dynasty in Aleppo, Syria
- The date of the earliest discovered rubber balls
- Egypt conquered by Asian tribes known as the Hyksos - see History of ancient Israel and Judah
- Shang Dynasty instituted in China