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  • Italy
    1595
    Galileo Galilei

    Galileo devised and improved a geometric and military compass

    Italy
    1595

    Galileo made a number of contributions to what is now known as engineering, as distinct from pure physics. Between 1595 and 1598, Galileo devised and improved a geometric and military compass suitable for use by gunners and surveyors.




  • Croatia
    1595
    Wind turbine

    Fausto Veranzio description of wind turbines

    Croatia
    1595

    Advanced wind turbines were described by croinventor Fausto Veranzio. In his book Machinae Novae (1595) he described vertical axis wind turbines with curved or V-shaped blades.




  • Babylon (Present-Day Iraq)
    1595 BC
    Babylon

    Babylon was renamed Karanduniash

    Babylon (Present-Day Iraq)
    1595 BC

    In 1595 BC the city was overthrown by the Hittite Empire from Asia Minor. Thereafter, Kassites from the Zagros Mountains of northwestern Ancient Iran captured Babylon, ushering in a dynasty that lasted for 435 years, until 1160 BC. The city was renamed Karanduniash during this period.




  • Iraq and Syria
    1595 BC
    Hittites

    Mursili I captured Mari and Babylonia

    Iraq and Syria
    1595 BC

    On Hattusili I's deathbed, he chose his grandson, Mursili I (or Murshilish I), as his heir. In 1595 BC, Mursili I conducted a great raid down the Euphrates River, bypassing Assyria, and captured Mari and Babylonia, ejecting the Amorite founders of the Babylonian state in the process. However, internal dissension forced a withdrawal of troops to the Hittite homelands.




  • Babylon (Present-Day Iraq)
    1595 BC
    Assyria

    Babylon was sacked Kassites

    Babylon (Present-Day Iraq)
    1595 BC

    Assyria remained strong and secure; when Babylon was sacked and its Amorite rulers deposed by the Hittite Empire and subsequently fell to the Kassites in 1595 BC, both powers were unable to make any inroads into Assyria, and there seems to have been no trouble between the first Kassite ruler of Babylon, Agum II, and Erishum III (1598–1586 BC) of Assyria and a mutually beneficial treaty was signed between the two rulers.




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