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1140s BC

decade

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 21, 2025
Entity authorityQ115839 ↗
Source-derived summary

The 1140s BC is a decade that lasted from 1149 BC to 1140 BC.

Events and trends

1149–1145 BC – Reign of Pharaoh Ramesses V of the Twentieth Dynasty of Egypt.

Significant people

Tiglath-Pileser I, king of Assyria, is born (approximate date).

Editorial summary

“1140s BC” enters the record as decade. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what 1140s and decade can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1149, 1140, 1145—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around 1140s and decade.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

“1140s BC” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, 1140s and decade provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

The citation trail is more important than the brevity of the summary: it shows where individual claims can be examined in context. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 21, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q115839. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1149, 1140 and 1145.

Critical limits

The absence of detail may reflect summary conventions rather than a lack of surviving documentation. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

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This entry incorporates text from “1140s BC” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.