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1530s BC

decade

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 20, 2026
Entity authorityQ2851861 ↗
Source-derived summary

The 1530s BC was a decade lasting from January 1, 1539 BC to December 31, 1530 BC.

Events and trends

1539 BC—End of Seventeenth Dynasty of Egypt, start of the Eighteenth Dynasty.

1539 BC—Approximate first use of the Valley of the Kings.

1534 BC—The oldest dated star chart was made in Ancient Egypt.

1531 BC— Joseph interprets dreams of the Pharaoh, is released from prison and becomes second in Egypt next only to the Pharaoh himself.

1530 BC—End of the First Dynasty of Babylon and the start of the Kassite Dynasty—see History of Iraq.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “1530s BC” as decade. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1539, 1530, 1534, 1531—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where 1530s and decade can be independently traced.
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Why this record matters

The subject matters to the general reference register because the source frames it as decade. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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 Sep 20, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q2851861. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1539, 1530, 1534 and 1531.

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This entry incorporates text from “1530s 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.