1690s BC

Events and trends

• 1700–1500 BC — Hurrian conquests.
• Lila-Ir-Tash rules the Elamite Empire (c. 1700–c. 1698 BC).
• Temti-Agun I rules the Elamite Empire (c. 1698–c. 1690 BC).
• The Exodus of the Israelites from Egypt, according to Thrasyllus of Mendes, an Egyptian mathematician and astronomer who lived in the reign of Tiberius (c. 1691 BC).
• Tan-Uli rules the Elamite Empire (c. 1690–c. 1655 BC).
• Belu-bani is King of Assyria (1700–1691 BC).
• Libaia is King of Assyria (1690–1674 BC).
• 1691 BC June 11 — Lunar Saros 32 begins.

Deaths

• 1695 BC June 11 — Sarah, wife of Abraham, according to the Hebrew Calendar