Events

• 1800 BC - Iron age in India
• 1800 BC — beginning of the Nordic Bronze Age in the period system devised by Oscar Montelius.
• 1800 BC–1300 BC — Troy flourishes.
• c. 1800 BC — sedentary Mayan communities in Mesoamerica
• c. 1800 BC — Hyksos start to settle in the Nile Delta. They had the capital at Avaris in northeastern Nile Delta.
• c. 1792 BC–1750 BC — Babylonia and Mari.
• c. 1792 BC–1750 BC — Stela of Hammurabi, from Susa (modern Shush, Iran) is made. It is now in Musee du Louvre, Paris.
• 1787 BC–1784 BC — Amorite conquests of Uruk and Isin.
• 1786 BC — Egypt: Queen Sobekneferu dies. End of Twelfth Dynasty, start of Thirteenth Dynasty, start of Fourteenth Dynasty.
• 1779 BC — Zimrilim, the King of Mari, starts to rule.
• 1770 BC — Babylon, capital of Babylonia becomes the largest city of the world, taking the lead from Thebes, capital of Egypt.(External Link)
• 1766 BC — Shang conquest of Xia Dynasty. China .
• 1764–1750 BC — Wars of Hammurabi.
• 1757 BC — Mari sacked by Hammurabi. Zimrilim's palace is destroyed.
• 1757 BC — Zimrilim, the King of Mari, dies.
• 1750 BC — Hyksos occupation of Northern Egypt.
• 1750 BC — A colossal volcanic eruption at Mount Veniaminof, Alaska.
• Before c. 1750 BC — Investiture of Zimrilim (Zimiri-Lim, King of Mari, before the Goddess Ishtar), facsimile of a wall painting on mud plaster from the Zimrilim palace at Mari (modern Tell Hariri, Iraq), Court 106, is made. It is now in Musee du Louvre, Paris.
• 1749 BC–1712 BC — Mesopotamian Rebellions.
• Early Unetice culture, beginning of the Bronze Age in Central Europe.
• Minoan civilization: phase II of the Middle period (MM II).
• 1800–1700 BC — Decline of the Indus Valley Civilization.

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