17th century BC

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

Events

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.
1645 BC - Possible date for the eruption at Santorini, in the Aegean Sea, contributing to the demise of Minoan civilization (the date is suggested by 1990s Greenland ice coring).
1633 BC -- End of the Thirteenth and Fourteenth dynasties of Egypt, start of the Fifteenth dynasty.
1628 BC -- Possible date of the volcanic eruption on Santorini which possibly affected the fate of Minoan civilization.
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

Hammurabi, died 1686 BC short chronology.
1684 BC - Death of Heremon, Irish legend.
1637 BC - Death of Abraham according to Jewish calculations. (2,123 years after biblical creation)
Jie , The last ruler of Xia Dynasty, ruled China for 52 years until 1600 BC according to the Xia Shang Zhou Chronology Project.

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