Events

• 1700 – 1500 BC -- Hurrian conquests.
• 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.
• 1650s BC - Egypt: Start of Seventeenth Dynasty.
• c. 1655 BC - Tan-Uli, the ruler of the Elamite Empire, died.
• 1645 BC - Santorini, in the Aegean Sea, erupts, 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 -- Estimated date of the volcanic eruption on Thera which possibly affected the fate of Minoan civilization.
• 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.
• Jie , The last ruler of Xia Dynasty, ruled China for 52 years until 1600 BC according to the Xia Shang Zhou Chronology Project.

17th century BC

17 век пр.н.е. | Segle XVII aC | 17. Jahrhundert v. Chr. | Siglo XVII adC | XVIIe siècle av. J.-C. | 기원전 17세기 | המאה ה-17 לפנה"ס | 17e eeuw v. Chr. | 紀元前17世紀 | XVII wiek p.n.e. | 1667. пне. | 1600-luku eaa | MA 17. yöz | 前17世纪