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1400s BC (decade)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionOct 5, 2025
Entity authorityQ2494332 ↗
Source-derived summary

The 1400s BC is a decade that lasted from 1409 BC to 1400 BC.

Events and trends

April 16, 1409 BC Lunar Saros 38 begins.

1400 BC – Palace of Minos destroyed by fire.

1400 BC – Estimation: Thebes, capital of Egypt becomes the largest city of the world, taking the lead from Memphis in Egypt.

c. 1400 BC – Assyrians became very powerful.

c. Beginning of Mycenaean era.

c. 1400 BC – The center of political and cultural power in the Aegean has shifted from Crete to mainland Greece, which at that time is home to wealthy warrior-kings.

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“1400s BC (decade)” enters the record as decade. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what 1400s 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—1409, 1400—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around 1400s and decade.
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Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Oct 5, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q2494332. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1409 and 1400.

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This entry incorporates text from “1400s BC (decade)” 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.