16th century BC - Definition and Overview

(17th century BC - 16th century BC - 15th century BC - other centuries)

(1600s BC - 1590s BC - 1580s BC - 1570s BC - 1560s BC - 1550s BC - 1540s BC - 1530s BC - 1520s BC - 1510s BC - 1500s BC - other decades)

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

Events

• 1700 - 1500 BC -- Hurrian conquests
• 1539 BC - End of Seventeenth dynasty of Egypt, start of the Eighteenth Dynasty
• 1525 BC - End of Fifteenth dynasty of Egypt

Significant persons

Inventions, discoveries, introductions

• Around 1500 BC -- Stonehenge built in Wiltshire, England