1700 Bc

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1700 Bc

	C	17th Century BC
	Cna	16
	Cnb	th century BC

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 .

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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 .

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(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 Asia n 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 .