1650s BC

The 1650s BC was a decade lasting from January 1, 1659 BC to December 31, 1650 BC.

Millennium: 2nd millennium BC
Centuries:
Decades:
Years:
  • 1659 BC
  • 1658 BC
  • 1657 BC
  • 1656 BC
  • 1655 BC
  • 1654 BC
  • 1653 BC
  • 1652 BC
  • 1651 BC
  • 1650 BC
Categories:
  • c. 1655 BC—Tan-Uli, the ruler of the Elamite Empire, dies.
  • c. 1650 BC—Greeks start to live in Mycenae.
  • c. 1650 BC—Middle Kingdom ends in Ancient Egypt (other date is 1674 BC).
  • c. 1650 BC—Second Intermediate Period starts in Ancient Egypt (other date is 1674 BC).
  • c. 1650 BC – "Flotilla" fresco, from Room 5 of West House, Akrotiri (prehistoric city), Thera, is made. Second Palace period. It is now kept in National Archaeological Museum, Athens.
  • Egypt—Start of Seventeenth Dynasty.
  • c. 1650 BC—Between Rapperswil and Hurden, on the so-called Seedamm, a first wooden bridge was constructed on Lake Zürich in Switzerland
  • c. 1650 BC—The last Woolly mammoths die on Wrangel Island, rendering the species extinct.
  • c. 1650 BC—The Rhind Mathematical Papyrus is produced.[1]
  • c. 1650 BC—Beginning of construction of 900-acre Poverty Point settlement earthworks (now northern Louisiana) by NA hunter-gatherers.

References
  1. Jan Gullberg, C13 Trigonometry, Maths from Birth of Numbers, W. W. Norton in 1997 (ISBN 039304002X )
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