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1520s BC

decade of the Gregorian calendar

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionDec 4, 2025
Entity authorityQ2851859 ↗
Source-derived summary

The 1520s BC was a decade lasting from January 1, 1529 BC to December 31, 1520 BC.

Events

1528 Birth of Dan

1525 BC—End of Fifteenth dynasty of Egypt.

1522 BC—Jacob migrates to Egypt, settling in the Land of Goshen, according to the Hebrew calendar.

1521 BC—April 24—Lunar Saros 36 begins.

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The public source identifies “1520s BC” as decade of the Gregorian calendar. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around 1520s, decade and Gregorian.

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—1529, 1520, 1528, 1525—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with 1520s, decade and Gregorian providing the first useful test.
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Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Dec 4, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q2851859. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1529, 1520, 1528 and 1525.

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This entry incorporates text from “1520s 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.