The 18th century BCE was the century which lasted from 1800 BCE to 1701 BCE.
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An inscription of the Code of Hammurabi , one of the earliest known sets of laws
1800 BCE : Iron Age in India[1]
1800 BCE : Beginning of the Nordic Bronze Age in the period system devised by Oscar Montelius .
1800 BCE – 1300 BCE : Troy VI flourishes.
c. 1800 BCE : Sedentary Mayan communities in Mesoamerica
c. 1800 BCE : Hyksos start to settle in the Nile Delta . The capital was at Avaris .
c. 1792 BCE – 1750 BCE : (middle chronology ) – Hammurabi rules Babylonia and has to deal with Mari .
c. 1792 BCE – 1750 BCE : (middle chronology ) – Stela of Hammurabi , from Susa (modern Shush , Iran ) is made. It is now in Musée du Louvre , Paris.
1787 BCE – 1784 BCE : Amorite conquests of Uruk and Isin .
1786 BCE : Egypt : Queen Sobekneferu dies. End of Twelfth Dynasty , start of Thirteenth Dynasty , start of Fourteenth Dynasty .
1779 BCE : Zimrilim , the King of Mari , starts to rule.
1770 BCE : Babylon , capital of Babylonia becomes the largest city of the world, taking the lead from Thebes , capital of Egypt .
1766 BCE : Shang conquest of Xia Dynasty . China.
1764 BCE – 1750 BCE : Wars of Hammurabi .
1757 BCE : Mari sacked by Hammurabi . Zimrilim 's palace is destroyed.
1757 BCE : Zimrilim , the King of Mari , dies.
1750 BCE : Hyksos occupation of Northern Egypt .
1750 BCE : A large volcano eruption at Mount Veniaminof , Alaska.
c. 1750 BCE : Nomadic shepherds, the Aryans , enter India from Central Asia and the Russian steppes.
c. 1750 BCE : Vedic period starts in India.
c. 1750 BCE : Investiture of Zimrilim (Zimiri-Lim , King of Mari, before the Goddess Ishtar), a wall painting on mud plaster from the Zimrilim palace at Mari (modern Tell Hariri , Iraq ), Court 106, is made. It is now in Musée du Louvre , Paris.
1749 BCE – 1712 BCE : Mesopotamian Rebellions.
Early Unetice culture , beginning of the Bronze Age in Central Europe .
Minoan civilization : phase II of the Middle period (MM II).
c. 1700 BC : The last species of mammoth became extinct on Wrangel Island .
c. 1700 BC: Indus Valley Civilization comes to an end but is continued by the Cemetery H culture
c. 1700 BC: Minoan Old Palace period ends and Minoan Second Palace (Neopalatial) period starts in Crete .
c. 1700 BC: Aegean metalworkers are producing decorative objects that may be better than Ancient Near East jewelers, whose techniques they seem to borrow.
c. 1700 BC: Lila-Ir-Tash started to rule the Elamite Empire .
c. 1700 BC: Bronze Age starts in China.
c. 1700 BC: Shang Dynasty starts in China.
1800 BCE – 1700 BCE : Decline of the Indus Valley Civilization
1750 BCE —Hammurabi (middle chronology )
c. 1700 BCE —date for the building of the Phaistos Disc . Its purpose and meaning, and even its original geographical place of manufacture is unknown. This makes it one of the most famous mysteries of archaeology .