1650s BC

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

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 frist wooden bridge was constructed on Lake Zürich in Switzerland