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1540s BC

decade

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 14, 2026
Entity authorityQ375616 ↗
Source-derived summary

The 1540s BC was a decade lasting from January 1, 1549, BC to December 31, 1540, BC.

Events and trends

History of ancient Israel and Judah—earliest date for Ahmose I founding the Eighteenth dynasty of Egypt.

Significant people

1545 BC—Ahmose I, Pharaoh and founder of the 18th Dynasty of Egypt, dies, according to the High Chronology.

Editorial summary

“1540s BC” enters the record as decade. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what 1540s and decade can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1549, 1540, 1545—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around 1540s and decade.
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“1540s BC” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, 1540s and decade provides the most credible route into that argument.

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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 May 14, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q375616. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1549, 1540 and 1545.

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This entry incorporates text from “1540s 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.