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CalendarHome.com - 17th century BC - Calendar Encyclopedia (394 words) |
 | 1690 BC - Temti-Agun I, the ruler of the Elamite Empire, died. |
| 1655 BC - Tan-Uli, the ruler of the Elamite Empire, died. |
| 1600s BC - 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). |
| Medieval Castles By Build Model Castles - Castle History (3052 words) |
| Early Bronze Age fortifications dating from as early as 3000 BC were constructed on hill tops and often enclosed as much as several hundred acres. |
| In 1409, it required a ferocious attack of 1000 professional soldiers, led by John Talbot, to retake the castle for the king of England. |
| As late as the 1640s, Harlech was the last of the royalist castles in Wales to fall to parliamentary forces. |
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