16th century BCE
(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
