(18th century BC - 17th century BC - 16th century BC - other centuries)

(1690s BC - 1680s BC - 1670s BC - 1660s BC - 1650s BC - 1640s BC - 1630s BC - 1620s BC - 1610s BC - 1600s BC - 1590s BC - other decades)

(3rd millennium BC - 2nd millennium BC - 1st millennium BC)

Events

• 1700 - 1500 BC -- Hurrian conquests
• 1633 BC -- End of the Thirteenth and Fourteenth dynasties of Egypt , start of the Fifteenth dynasty

Significant persons

• Hammurabi, died 1686 BC short chronology.

Inventions, discoveries, introductions