Eruption of Thera
1,600 BCE* · Event
Volcanic eruption on Santorini around 1600 BCE; devastates the Minoan settlement at Akrotiri; possible origin of Atlantis legend.
On these timelines: Master, Ancient Greece, The Bronze Age
Around 1600 BCE
- New Kingdom of Egypt (1550 BCE)
- Shang dynasty (1600 BCE)
- The parting of the Red Sea (1446 BCE)
- Moses (1391 BCE)
- Olmec civilisation (1500 BCE)
- Abraham (1813 BCE)
- Code of Hammurabi (1754 BCE)
- The Ten Commandments at Mount Sinai (1446 BCE)
- Moses the lawgiver (1526 BCE)
- Mycenaean civilisation (1600 BCE)