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1650s BC

decade

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General referenceInterpretive dossier study · Crown Archives visual atlas
Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 27, 2024
Entity authorityQ1999853 ↗
Source-derived summary

The 1650s BC was a decade lasting from January 1, 1659 BC to December 31, 1650 BC.

Events and trends

c. 1655 BC—Tan-Uli, the ruler of the Elamite Empire, dies.

c. 1650 BC—Greeks start to live in Mycenae.

c. 1650 BC—Middle Kingdom ends in Ancient Egypt (other date is 1674 BC).

c. 1650 BC—Second Intermediate Period starts in Ancient Egypt (other date is 1674 BC).

c. 1650 BC — "Flotilla" fresco, from Room 5 of West House, Akrotiri (prehistoric city), Thera, is made.

Editorial summary

“1650s BC” enters the record as decade. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what 1650s 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—1659, 1650, 1655, 1674—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around 1650s and decade.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

“1650s BC” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, 1650s and decade provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

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 Aug 27, 2024. The linked authority identifier is Q1999853. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1659, 1650, 1655 and 1674.

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 “1650s 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.