1609–1600 BC

==Events and trends==
* Egypt—End of Fourteenth Dynasty.
* 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).
* The end of the Indus Valley civilization.
* The overthrow of the ruling Amorite dynasty in Aleppo, Syria.
* The date of the earliest discovered rubber balls.
* Egypt conquered by Asian tribes known as the Hyksos—see History of ancient Israel and Judah.
* 1600 BC—Shang Dynasty instituted in China.
* 1600 BC—Tumulus culture started.
* c. 1600 BC—Nebra skydisk created.
* c. 1600 BC—The foundations of the Olmec civilization in Southern Mexico.
* c. 1600 BC—Cycladic civilization ends.
* c. 1600 BC–1550 BC—"Mask of Agamemnon" Funerary mask, from the royal tombs at Mycenae, Greece, is made. Grave Circle A. It is now at National Archaeological Museum of Athens.
* c. 1600 BC–1200 BC—Hittite (Anatolia) iron tools and weapons.
* c. 1600 BC – 1200 BC—Tiryns, Ancient Greece, is inhabited.
* c. 1600 BC – Kings and princes on the mainland Greece have begun building large aboveground burial places commonly referred to as beehive tombs because of their rounded, conical shape.
* c. 1600 BC—Hittites establish capital at Hattushash (near modern Boghazkeui, Turkey).
==Significant people==
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==Deaths==
* 1602 BC—Shem, son of Noah, according to the Hebrew Calendar
 
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