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920s BC

decade

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 12, 2026
Entity authorityQ1644436 ↗
Source-derived summary

The 920s BC is a decade that lasted from 929 BC to 920 BC.

Events and trends

928 BC — On the death of King Solomon, his son Rehoboam is unable to hold the tribes of Israel together, and the northern part secedes to become the kingdom of Israel, making Jeroboam its king. Rehoboam is left to rule the kingdom of Judah.

925 BC — Military conquest of Canaan by Shoshenq I.

924 BC or 922 BC — Osorkon I succeeds his father Shoshenq I as king of Egypt.

922 BC — Phorbas, Archon of Athens, dies after a reign of 30 years and is succeeded by his son Megacles.

920 BC — A transit of Venus occurs.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “920s BC” is decade. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through 920s and decade, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current 118-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, 920s and decade is the immediate research focus.
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Why this record matters

The phrase “decade” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.

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 May 12, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q1644436. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference.

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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 “920s 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.