Century · 1600 BCE – 1501 BCE
The world in the 16th century BCE
From 1600 BCE to 1501 BCE the atlas holds 50 states standing at some time, 12 of them founded in it - Hittites and Shang dynasty the best known - and 8 ending in it. 1 wars, risings, treaties, discoveries and other events began - Battle of Mingtiao the best known of the events; 25 people were born.
A century here is counted as Wikidata counts it, 1600 BCE to 1501 BCE, and holds every row that began in it, however coarsely dated.
What began in the 16th century BCE
By decade first - wars and battles in red, risings, regime changes and massacres beside them, everything else in grey - then by kind, the best known first.
Wars and battles 1
- Battle of Mingtiao · battle · 1600 BCE
States founded and fallen
Founded 12
- Hittites · state · 1600 – 1151 BCE
- Shang dynasty · state · 1600 – 1046 BCE
- Mycenaean Greece · state · 1600 – 1100 BCE
- New Kingdom of Egypt · state · 1550 – 1070 BCE
- Kassites · state · 1531 – 1155 BCE
- Eighteenth Dynasty of Egypt · state · 1550 – 1295 BCE
- Seventeenth Dynasty of Egypt · state · 1580 – 1550 BCE
- Hayasa-Azzi · state · 1502 – 1202 BCE
- Isuwa · state · 1501 – 824 BCE
- Kassite dynasty · state · 1595 – 1155 BCE
- Gandhara (Mahabharata) · state · 1501 – 535 BCE
- Anarta kingdom · state · 1501 – 1101 BCE
Ended 8
- Xia dynasty · state · 2070 – 1600 BCE
- Meroë · state · 2501 – 1501 BCE
- Fifteenth Dynasty of Egypt · state · 1650 – 1550 BCE
- Seventeenth Dynasty of Egypt · state · 1580 – 1550 BCE
- Sixteenth Dynasty of Egypt · state · 1650 – 1580 BCE
- Fourteenth Dynasty of Egypt · state · 1786 – 1600 BCE
- Yamhad · state · 2004 – 1595 BCE
- Abydos Dynasty · state · 1650 – 1600 BCE
Born in the 16th century BCE
The best known first, by how many Wikipedias write about them.
- Moses · religious leader · 1526 – 1501 BCE
- Hatshepsut · statesperson · 1504 – 1458 BCE
- Ahmose I · ruler · 1560 – 1525 BCE
- Amenhotep I · person · 1527 – 1506 BCE
- Thutmose II · statesperson · 1510 – 1479 BCE
- Thutmose IV · statesperson · 1501 – 1390 BCE
- Seqenenre Tao · statesperson · 1591 – 1554 BCE
- Ahhotep I · politician · 1560 – 1530 BCE
- Ahmose · politician · 1505 – 1493 BCE
- Pan Geng · ruler · 1501 – 1374 BCE
- Yuya · ruler · 1501 – 1401 BCE
- Kurigalzu I · ruler · 1501 – 1375 BCE
- Xiao Xin · ruler · 1501 – 1353 BCE
- Yang Jia of Shang · ruler · 1501 – 1402 BCE
- Zu Ding · ruler · 1501 – 1434 BCE
- Ashur-bel-nisheshu · ruler · 1501 – 1401 BCE
- Ashur-nadin-ahhe II · ruler · 1501 – 1401 BCE
- Nan Geng · ruler · 1501 – 1409 BCE
- Ashur-nadin-ahhe I · ruler · 1501 BCE
- Ashur-rim-nisheshu · ruler · 1501 – 1401 BCE
- Ashur-rabi I · ruler · 1501 BCE
- Enlil-Nasir II · ruler · 1501 BCE
- Ashur-nirari II · ruler · 1501 BCE
- Karaindash · ruler · 1501 BCE
and 1 more in the atlas.
States of the 16th century BCE
Every state that stood at some time in the 16th century BCE, by region, the best known first.
Europe3 states
- Minoan civilization · 3300 – 1100 BCE
- Mycenaean Greece · 1600 – 1100 BCE
- Colchis · 1701 – 164 BCE
Middle East and North Africa32 states
- Ancient Egypt · 4001 – 30 BCE
- Babylon · 1894 BCE – 1 CE
- Troy · 3000 BCE – 500 CE
- Assyria · 2025 – 609 BCE
- Phoenicia · 2500 – 64 BCE
- Babylonia · 1901 – 539 BCE
- Hittites · 1600 – 1151 BCE
- Elam · 2700 – 539 BCE
- Mitanni · 1650 – 1260 BCE
- New Kingdom of Egypt · 1550 – 1070 BCE
- Meroë · 2501 – 1501 BCE
- Ugarit · 6001 – 1191 BCE
and 20 more; every state of Middle East and North Africa.
Sub-Saharan Africa1 state
- Land of Punt · 2401 – 1069 BCE
East and Southeast Asia6 states
- Shang dynasty · 1600 – 1046 BCE
- Xia dynasty · 2070 – 1600 BCE
- Old Chosŏn · 2333 – 108 BCE
- Shu · 2001 – 316 BCE
- Tamna · 2337 BCE – 1404 CE
- Qi (Henan) · 1601 – 445 BCE
Americas and Oceania2 states
- Maya civilization · 2001 BCE – 1521 CE
- Zapotec civilization · 6701 BCE – 1201 CE
Location unknown6 states
- Kassites · 1531 – 1155 BCE
- Isuwa · 1501 – 824 BCE
- Gandhara (Mahabharata) · 1501 – 535 BCE
- Brihadratha dynasty · 1700 – 682 BCE
- Kikata Kingdom · 1700 – 1300 BCE
- Anarta kingdom · 1501 – 1101 BCE
Open in the atlas
- On the timeline, 1601 BCE – 1501 BCE: every state, war and life of the 16th century BCE, region by region.
- On the map in 1551 BCE: the borders of the year, its cities under their names of the year, and what happened where.
Wikidata (CC0) · data built 2026-10-07 · Pastlas v2.13.1, by Oleh Voronko. The published atlas and its data are for non-commercial use.