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  17th century BC - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
1690 BC - Temti-Agun I, the ruler of the Elamite Empire, died.
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 overthrow of the ruling Amorite dynasty in Aleppo, Syria.
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Encyclopedia: 1600s BC In Belgium, 55% of government ministers are female.
Decades: 1650s BC 1640s BC 1630s BC 1620s BC 1610s BC - 1600s BC - 1590s BC 1580s BC 1570s BC 1560s BC 1550s BC This is a list of decades which have articles with more information about them.
Centuries: 18th century BC - 17th century BC - 15th century BC Decades: 1670s BC 1660s BC 1650s BC 1640s BC 1630s BC - 1620s BC - 1610s BC 1600s BC 1590s BC 1580s BC 1570s BC Events and trends 1628 BC -- Estimated date of the volcanic eruption on Thera which possibly affected the...
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 1600s BC - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Centuries: 18th century BC - 17th century BC - 16th century 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).
1600 BC - Shang Dynasty instituted in China.
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 Ancient Greece - Biocrawler   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Marble statuette from the Cycladic islands, 3000 BC The Greeks are believed to have migrated southward into the Greek peninsula in several waves beginning in the late 3rd millennium BC, the last being the Dorian invasion.
The period from 1600 BC to about 1100 BC is described in History of Mycenaean Greece known for the reign of King Agamemnon and the wars against Troy as narrated in the epics of Homer.
From 650 BC onwards, the aristocracies were overthrown and replaced by populist leaders called tyrants (tyrranoi), a word which did not necessarily have the modern meaning of oppressive dictators.
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 Encyclopedia: 1520s BC   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Encyclopedia: 1520s BC The price of gasoline in Turkmenistan is only $US 0.03 per liter.
Some time after 7500 BC the lake began to shrink and hunting became more difficult, so the inhabitants turned to agriculture, developing techniques such as Chinampas, or floating gardens, versions of which are still seen in Xochimilco on the southern outskirt of Mexico City.
The islands were found to be uninhabited at the time of this expedition, though Junonia (the Roman name for La Palma) did have a 'small temple built of a single stone', presumably evidence of earlier inhabitants or explorers.
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 Ancient yet so modern   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Long before Galileo changed the course of history in the 1600s with his astronomical discoveries, ancient Greeks were calculating the circumference of the earth, gauging lunar eclipses, pumping water, making steam engines and even building toy automatons for lack of another purpose in pre-industrial antiquity.
Eratosthenes (240 BC) calculated the earth was round after he realized the suns rays hit the bottom of a well in Aswan (then Syene) at a different time of day than in Alexandria.
Hero of Alexandria (100 BC or 1st Century AD) was the last in the 600-year tradition and the link from the Babylonians, via the Arabs, to Renaissance Europe.
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Learn more about 16th century BC in the online encyclopedia.
(3rd millennium BC - 2nd millennium BC - 1st millennium BC)
Around 1500 BC -- Stonehenge built in Wiltshire, England
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 Wikipedia: 1590s BC
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1597 BC - Aaron born to Amram and his wife Jochebed.
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 FF Parallel History- 1600s   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Analysis of pollen and charcoal giving a date of 120 000 BC suggests land was being cleared by use of fire by people in the Lake George basin in the Southern Tablelands of NSW.
30 000 BC A man from the Lake Mungo area is buried in a shallow grave.
12 000 BC At the end of the glacial period seas rise, separating Tasmania from the mainland.
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Decades: 1550s BCCenturies: 17th century BC - 16th century BC - 15th century BC Decades: 1600s BC 1590s BC 1580s BC 1570s BC 1560s BC - 1550s BC - 1540s BC 1530s BC 1520s BC 1510s BC 1500s BC...
1500 BC - 100 BC - Indus valley civilization - series of raids or small scale migrations by the Aryans from the North-West of Indian subcontinent.
Thutmose III of Egypt, Pharaoh of the eighteenth dynasty of Egypt (1503 BC - 1426 BC).
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The first descriptions by the Europeans in the 1600s indicate they lived in domed huts made of bark or grass mats, laid over a framework of bent saplings.
After Captain Argall named the Bay after Lord de la Warr in the 1600s, the Lenape people living on the shores of the "de la Warr Bay" came to be known as the Delaware Indians.
By the end of the 1600s, disease and conflict had caused the death of almost 90% of the Indian population along North America's coast.
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 Texas Department of State Health Services, Public Health Preparedness, History   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
• 590 BC: During the siege of Cirrha, Solon of Athens is said to have used hellebore roots (a purgative) to poison the water in an aqueduct leading from the Pleistrus River.
• 400 BC: Writings of the Mohist sect in China tell of the use of ox-hide bellows to pump smoke from furnaces in which balls of mustard and other toxic vegetable matter were being burnt into tunnels to discourage the besieging army from digging.
From the 1100s to the late 1600s, the actual spread of disease by means of germs was still not understood.
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604 BC Daniel 635-536 BC Aesopís Fables 600 BC ekiel 597-571 BC Judahís Captivity by Babylon (stage 2) 597 BC Judahís Captivity by Babylon (stage 3) 586 BC Shadrach, Meshack, and Abed-nego 575 BC Pythagoras 566 BC Temple of Diana (Artemis) 550 BC Belshazzar and the Fall of Babylon c.
Diogenes died 320 BC Zeno 335-263 BC Pyrrhus 318-272 BC The Pharos (Lighthouse) of Alexandria c.
The Rosetta Stone 196 BC Hipparchus 190 BC Publius Cornelius Scipio 185-129 BC Antiochus Epiphanies and The Maccabean Revolt 167-143 BC Tiberius and Gaius Sempronius Gracchus (The Gracchi) 163-121 BC Gaius Marius 155-86 BC Fall of Greece c.
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 Historical Time Line
1600s BC The Greek Hoplites begin wearing armour consisting of a shield, helmet, cuirass & greeves.
320 BC Ch'in (the state that eventually unified China) imitates the Mongols by organizing a cavalry of soldiers on horseback instead of in chariots.
287 BC A Roman soldier invading the city kills Archimedes, despite a general's explicit orders that the inventor be spared.
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 Venus (planet) - Biocrawler   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
It is sometimes referred to as the "Morning Star" or the "Evening Star", and when it is visible in dark skies it is by far the brightest star-like object in the sky.
Venus was known to ancient Babylonians around 1600 BC, and to the Mayan civilization (the Mayans developed a religious calendar based on Venus's motion) and must have been known long before in prehistoric times, given that it is the third brightest object in the sky after the Sun and Moon.
One of the oldest surviving astronomical documents, from the Babylonian library of Ashurbanipal around 1600 BC, is a 21-year record of the appearances of Venus (which the early Babylonians called Nindaranna).
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 16th century BC - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
1595 BC - Sack of Babylon by the Hittite king Mursilis I
1525 BC - End of Fifteenth dynasty of Egypt.
1597 BC - Aaron born to Amram and his wife Jochebed (traditional date).
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 Encyclopedia: Joseph (Hebrew Bible)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
He is one of the best-known figures in the Scriptures, famous for his coat of many colours and his God-given ability to interpret dreams.
Owing to jealousy from his brothers, he was sold as a slave, eventually working under the Egyptian Potiphar, but was later freed, and became the chief adviser (vizier) to the Egyptian Pharaoh around 1600 BC.
Tiberian Hebrew is an oral tradition of pronunciation for ancient forms of Hebrew, especially the Hebrew of the Bible, that was given written form by masoretic scholars in the Jewish community at Tiberias in the early middle ages, beginning in the 8th century.
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The earliest known surgical procedure is trepanation, also known as trephinning or trepanning, in which a hole is drilled or scraped into the skull, leaving the membrane around the brain intact.
Recent excavations of the construction workers of the Egyptian pyramids also led to the discovery of evidence of brain surgery on a labourer, who continued living for two years afterwards.
Susrutha (about 400 BC) - also spelt Susruta or Sushrutha - is an important figure in the history of surgery.
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 Station Information - 1560s BC
1560s BC Centuries: 17th century BC - 16th century BC - 15th century BC
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Ahmose, Pharaoh and founder of the 18th Dynasty of Egypt (1570- 1546 BC).
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 Encyclopedia article: 17th century BC   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
17th century BC [Reference: 17th century BC facts]
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Hammurabi (Babylonian king who codified the laws of Sumer and Mesopotamia (died 1750 BC)), died 1686 BC short chronology (additional info and facts about short chronology).
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 Reference.com/Encyclopedia/1570s BC
1570s BC Centuries: 17th century BC - 16th century BC - 15th century BC
Kamose, last Pharaoh of the 17th Dynasty of Egypt (1573 - 1570 BC).
Ahmose I, Pharaoh and founder of the 18th Dynasty of Egypt (1570 - 1546 BC).
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 1600s BC - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
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1600s BC, Events and trends, Significant people and 1600s BC.
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 Read about 1600s BC at WorldVillage Encyclopedia. Research 1600s BC and learn about 1600s BC here!   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
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The creation of one of the oldest surviving astronomical documents, a copy of which was found in the
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 June 15 - Fundamentals.com.au   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
June 15 is the 166th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (167th in leap years), with 199 days remaining.
763 BC - Assyrians record a solar eclipse that will be used to fix the chronology of Mesopotamian history.
Commemoration of William Adams (Miura Anjin 三浦按針) a man shipwrecked in Japan in the 1600s, and whom James Clavell's "Shogun" was based upon.
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Centuries (additional info and facts about Centuries) : 18th century BC - 17th century BC - 16th century BC Decades (A period of 10 years) : 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 (A republic in northeastern Africa known as the United Arab Republic until 1971; site of an ancient civilization that flourished from 2600 to 30 BC) : End of Fourteenth Dynasty
Shang Dynasty (The imperial dynasty ruling China from about the 18th to the 12th centuries BC) instituted in China (A communist nation that covers a vast territory in eastern Asia; the most populous country in the world)
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 Heart of Wisdom Store :: Timelines :: HTA Creation to Christ Timeline Packet   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
1600s BC 16th Egyptian Dynasty (Second Intermediate Period) c.
495-429 BC Peloponnesian War 431-404 BC Plato 429-347 BC Epaminondas 418-362 BC Pelopidas died 364 BC The Theatre in Delphi fourth century BC Aristotle 384-322 BC Demosthenes 384-322 BC Manlius Torquatus c.
323 BC Hellenistic Civilization 323-30 BC Apelles 4th century BC Diogenes died 320 BC Zeno 335-263 BC Pyrrhus 318-272 BC The Pharos (Lighthouse) of Alexandria c.
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