Millennia:	2nd millennium BC
Centuries:	18th century BC - 17th century BC - 16th century BC
Decades:	1650s BC 1640s BC 1630s BC - 1620s BC - 1610s BC 1600s BC 1590s BC
Years:	1629 BC 1628 BC 1627 BC 1626 BC 1625 BC 1624 BC 1623 BC 1622 BC 1621 BC 1620 BC
Categories:	Births - Deaths - State leaders - Sovereign states Establishments - Disestablishments

Events and trends

• 1627 BC — Beginning of a several years lasting cooling of world climate recorded in tree-rings all over the world.^[1] It might have been caused by the Minoan eruption of Thera^[2] or the Avellino eruption of Mount Vesuvius.^[3]
• 1625 BC — Samsu-Ditana becomes King of Babylon (middle chronology).
• 1621 BC — Lullaia becomes the King of Assyria.
• 1620 BC — Mursili I becomes King of the Hittite Empire (middle chronology).

Significant people

References

1. ^ LaMarche, Valmore C. Jr. & Hirschboeck, Katherine K. (1984). "Frost rings in trees as records of major volcanic eruptions". Nature 307: 121–126. doi:10.1038/307121a0. 
2. ^ Baillie, M. G. L. & Munro, M. A. R. (1988). "Irish tree rings, Santorini and volcanic dust veils". Nature 332: 344–346. doi:10.1038/332344a0. 
3. ^ Vogel, J. S. et al. (1990). "Vesuvius/Avellino, one possible source of seventeenth century BC climatic disturbances". Nature 344: 534–537. doi:10.1038/344534a0.