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Decade
The 1650s BC was a decade lasting from January 1, 1659 BC to December 31, 1650 BC.
Events and trends
- 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.
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- c. 1650 BC—Beginning of construction of 900-acre
Poverty Point settlement earthworks (now northern
Louisiana) by
NA hunter-gatherers.
References