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Millennium:	2nd millennium BC
Centuries:	18th century BC – 17th century BC – 16th century BC
Decades:	1680s BC 1670s BC 1660s BC – 1650s BC – 1640s BC 1630s BC 1620s BC
Years:	1659 BC 1658 BC 1657 BC 1656 BC 1655 BC 1654 BC 1653 BC 1652 BC 1651 BC 1650 BC
Categories:	Births – Deaths – Architecture; Establishments – Disestablishments

[edit] 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 (Santorini), 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