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Encyclopedia > 1640s BC

Centuries: 18th century BC - 17th century BC - 15th century BC


Decades: 1690s BC 1680s BC 1670s BC 1660s BC 1650s BC - 1640s BC - 1630s BC 1620s BC 1610s BC 1600s BC 1590s BC

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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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