{{Short description|Decade}} The '''1650s BC''' was a decade lasting from January 1, 1659 BC to December 31, 1650 BC. {{Decadebox BC|165}}
==Events and trends== * c. 1655 BC—Tan-Uli, the ruler of the Elamite Empire, dies. * c. 1650 BC—Greeks start to live in Mycenae. * c. 1650 BC—Middle Kingdom ends in Ancient Egypt (other date is 1674 BC). * c. 1650 BC—Second Intermediate Period starts in Ancient Egypt (other date is 1674 BC). * c. 1650 BC — "Flotilla" fresco, from Room 5 of West House, Akrotiri (prehistoric city), Thera, is made. Second Palace period. It is now kept in National Archaeological Museum, Athens. * Egypt—Start of Seventeenth Dynasty. * c. 1650 BC—Between Rapperswil and Hurden, on the so-called Seedamm, a first wooden bridge was constructed on Lake Zürich in Switzerland * c. 1650 BC—The last Woolly mammoths die on Wrangel Island, rendering the species extinct. * c. 1650 BC—The Rhind Mathematical Papyrus is produced.<ref>Jan Gullberg, C13 Trigonometry, ''Maths from Birth of Numbers,'' W. W. Norton in 1997 ({{ISBN|039304002X}} )</ref>
== Significant lifeforms ==
* c.1653 BC —Alerce Milenario is estimated to have germinated this year.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.science.org/content/article/world-s-oldest-tree-growing-ravine-chile |type=newsletter |publisher=SCIENCEADVISER |title=Is the world’s oldest tree growing in a ravine in Chile? |first=Gabriel |last=Popkin |website=science.org |date=20 May 2022 |access-date=27 August 2024}}</ref>
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{{DEFAULTSORT:1650s Bc}} Category:17th century BC