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One hundred years, from 1600 BC to 1501 BC
The 16th century BC was a
century that lasted from 1600 BC to 1501 BC.
Events
1700 BC –
1500 BC :
Hurrian conquests.
1601 BC :
Sharma-Adad II became the
King of Assyria .
c.
1600 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):
Venus tablet of Ammisaduqa .
c.
1600 BC : The date of the earliest discovered
rubber balls.
c.
1600 BC : Early
Mycenaean culture: weapons, Cyclopean walls, and chariots.
c.
1600 BC :
Unetice culture ends in
Czech Republic ,
eastern Europe
Development of the
windmill in
Persia .
c.
1600 BC : Building of
El morro del tulcán
Pyramid in
Colombia .
1595 BC : Sack of
Babylon by the
Hittite king
Mursilis I .
c.
1595 BC : The overthrow of the ruling
Amorite dynasty in
Aleppo ,
Syria .
1570 BC : Cretan palaces at
Knossos and other centres flourish despite disasters.
1567 BC :
Egypt : End of
Fifteenth Dynasty , end of
Sixteenth Dynasty , end of
Seventeenth Dynasty , start of
Eighteenth Dynasty .
1558 BC :
Shang Dynasty of China established (according to the
Bamboo Annals ).
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1556 BC :
Cecrops I builds or rebuilds
Athens following the great flood of
Deucalion and the end of the
Golden age . He becomes the first of several
Kings of Athens whose life account is considered part of
Greek mythology .
c. 1550 BC: The city of
Mycenae , located in the northeast
Peloponnesus , comes to dominate the rest of
Achaea , giving its name to
Mycenaean civilization.
1550 BC : End of
Seventeenth dynasty of Egypt , start of the
Eighteenth Dynasty upon the coronation of
Ahmose I (Low Chronology).
1530 BC : End of the
First Dynasty of Babylon and the start of the
Kassite Dynasty —see
History of Iraq .
1525 BC : End of
Fifteenth dynasty of Egypt .
c. 1512 BC: The
flood of
Deucalion , according to
O'Flaherty ,
Augustine ,
Eusebius , and
Isidore (bishop of Seville).
1506 BC :
Cecrops I , legendary
King of Athens , dies after a reign of 50 years. Having survived his own son, he is succeeded by
Cranaus .
1504 BC :
Egypt started to conquer
Nubia and the
Levant .
c. 1500 BC: Many scholars date early parts of the
Rig Veda to roughly the 16th century.
c. 1500 BC: Queen
Hatsheput in
Egypt (
18th Dynasty ).
c. 1500 BC: The element
Mercury has been discovered in
Egyptian tombs dating from this decade.
c. 1500 BC: Settlers from
Crete ,
Greece move to
Miletus ,
Turkey .
c. 1500 BC: Early traces of
Maya civilization developing in
Belize .
c. 1500 BC: The
Phoenicians develop an
alphabet —see
Timeline of communication technology .
c. 1500 BC:
Indo-Aryan migration is often dated to the 17th to 16th centuries.
c. 1500 BC: Birth of
Zoroaster (
Avestan : Zarathushtra ).
Sovereign states
See:
List of sovereign states in the 16th century BC .
References