1600s BC state leaders - Events of 1590s BC - 1580s BC state leaders - State leaders by year

Africa

• Egypt
  • Nile region - Fifteenth Dynasty (Hyskos) (1674 BC-1535 BC)
  • Sinai (Pelusium) - Sixteenth Dynasty (1663 BC-1555 BC)
  • Upper Egypt - Seventeenth Dynasty (1650 BC-1550 BC)

Asia

• China, Shang dynasty (ca. 1766 BC - ca. 1050 BC)

Middle East

• Assyria
  • Sharma-Adad II, King of Assyria (1601 - 1598 BC)
  • Erishum III, King of Assyria (1598 - 1586 BC, traditional date, or ca.1580-1567 BC, newer dating)
• Babylon
  • (First Dynasty of Babylon) - Samsu-Ditana, King of Babylon (1625 BC-1595 BC)
  • Kassites (1595 BC-1157 BC)
• Elamite Dynasties (2700 BC-539 BC)
• Hittites (Old Kingdom) - Mursili I (1620 BC-1590 BC)