17th century BC

Events

• 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: Minoan Old Palace period ends and Minoan Second Palace period starts in Ancient Greece.
• c. 1700 BC: beginning of the Late Minoan period on Crete.
• c. 1700 BC: Aegean metalworkers are producing decorative objects rivaling those of Ancient Near East jewelers, whose techniques they seem to borrow.
• c. 1700 BC: Lila-Ir-Tash started to rule the Elamite Empire.
• c. 1700 BC: 1450 BC: Young girl gathering saffron crocus flowers, detail of wall painting, Room 3 of House Xeste 3, Akrotiri, Thera, is made. Second Palace period. It is now kept in Thera Foundation, Petros M. Nomikos, Greece.
• c. 1700 BC: Bronze Age starts in China.
• 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.
• c. 1680 BC: Egypt: Development of leavened bread.
• c. 1673 BC: Sharma-Adad I became the King of Assyria.
• c. 1661 BC: Iptar-Sin became the King of Assyria.
• c. 1655 BC: Tan-Uli, the ruler of the Elamite Empire, died.
• c. 1650 BC: Collapse of the 14th Dynasty of Egypt.
• c. 1650 BC: Conquest of Memphis by the Hyksos and collapse of the 13th Dynasty of Egypt.
• c. 1650 BC: Start of the 15th and 16th Dynasties of Egypt.
• c. 1650 BC: Possibly, start of the Abydos Dynasty in Upper Egypt.
• c. 1646 BC or earlier: Jie of Xia is overthrown by Tang of Shang in the Battle of Mingtiao.
• 1649 BC: Bazaia became the King of Assyria.
• 1633 BC – May 2 – Lunar Saros 34 begins.
• 1627 BC: Beginning of a cooling of world climate lasting several years recorded in tree-rings all over the world. It may have been caused by one, or more, volcanic eruptions e.g. the Minoan eruption of Thera, the Avellino eruption of Mount Vesuvius, and/or the eruption of Mount Aniakchak in Alaska.
• 1625 BC: Samsu-Ditana becomes King of Babylon.
• 1621 BC: Lullaia becomes the King of Assyria.
• 1620 BC: Mursili I becomes King of the Hittite Empire.
• 1615 BC: Shu-Ninua became the King of Assyria.
• c. 1600 BC: Tang of Shang established the Shang Dynasty.

  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

• 1686 BC – Hammurabi
• 1684 BC – Heremon, Irish legend

  Extinctions

• The last known population of woolly mammoth, preserved on Wrangel Island, becomes extinct.

  Sovereign States

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