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- - beginning of Iron Age in India The origins of Iron Working in India: New evidence from the Central Ganga plain and the Eastern Vindhyas by Rakesh Tewari (Director, U.P. State Archaeological Department)
- — beginning of the Nordic Bronze Age in the periodization system devised by Oscar Montelius .
- — Troy flourishes.
- — Hyksos start to settle in the Nile Delta . They had the capital at Avaris in northeastern Nile Delta .
- — Babylonia and Mari .
- — Stela Of Hammurabi , from Susa (modern Shush , Iran ) is made. It is now in Musee Du Louvre , Paris .
- — Amorite conquests of Uruk and Isin .
- — dies. End of Twelfth Dynasty , start of Thirteenth Dynasty , start of Fourteenth Dynasty .
- — Zimrilim , the King of Mari , starts to rule.
- — Babylon , capital of Babylonia becomes the largest city of the world, taking the lead from Thebes , capital of Egypt . {Link without Title}
- — Shang conquest of Xia Dynasty . China .
- — Wars of Hammurabi .
- — Mari sacks by Hammurabi . Zimrilim 's palace is destroyed.
- — Zimrilim , the King of Mari , dies.
- — Hyksos occupation of Northern Egypt .
- — A colossal volcanic eruption at Mount Veniaminof , Alaska .
- — Investiture of Zimrilim ( Zimiri-Lim , King of Mari, before the Goddess Ishtar), fascimile of a wall painting on mud plaster from the Zimrilim palace at Mari (modern Tell Hariri , Iraq ), Court 106, is made. It is now in Musee Du Louvre , Paris .
- — Mesopotamia n Rebellions.
- Early Unetice Culture , beginning of the Bronze Age in Central Europe .
- Minoan Civilization : phase II of the Middle period (MM II).
- — Decline of the Indus Valley Civilization .
- — Peleg , son of Eber , (b. 2003 BC) according to the Hebrew Calendar
- — Nahor , son of Serug , (b. 1911 BC) according to the Hebrew Calendar
- — Noah (b. 2704 BC) according to the Hebrew Calendar.
- — Hammurabi ( Middle Chronology )
- — Reu , son of Peleg, (b. 1973 BC) according to the Hebrew Calendar
- — Serug , son of Reu, (b. 1941 BC) according to the Hebrew Calendar
- — Median date for the building of the Phaistos Disc . Its purpose and meaning, and even its original geographical place of manufacture remains unknown, making it one of the most famous mysteries of archaeology.
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