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.
• 1600 BC - Shang Dynasty instituted in China.
• 1600 BC - Tumulus culture started.
• c. 1600 BC - Nebra skydisk created.
• Around 1600 BCE -- The foundations of the Olmec civilization in Southern Mexico

Significant people

Años 1600 adC | 0. roky 17. storočia pred Kr. | MA 1600. yıllar | 前1600年代