1540s BC

Millennium:	2nd millennium BC
Centuries:	17th century BC – 16th century BC – 15th century BC
Decades:	1570s BC 1560s BC 1550s BC – 1540s BC – 1530s BC 1520s BC 1510s BC
Years:	1549 BC 1548 BC 1547 BC 1546 BC 1545 BC 1544 BC 1543 BC 1542 BC 1541 BC 1540 BC
1540s BC-related categories:

Events and trends

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

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Significant people

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