Figure Kenya revolutionary
Wangari Maathai
1940 CE – 2011 CE · 71 years
How a Kenyan biologist planted fifty-one million trees, toppled a dictatorship, and became the first African woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize.
Wikipedia
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Wangarĩ Maathai on Wikipedia.
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Records whose own span overlaps this one, found by the same test the canvas draws with. The bar under each card is where it sits inside this one.
Landmark
Charyn Canyon
3000 BCE – still standing
Figure · Serbia / United States
Nikola Tesla
1856 CE – 1943 CE
Polity
Xinjiang
Founded 1914 CE · attested to 1945 CE
Conflict
Indonesian National Revolution
1945 CE – 1949 CE
Landmark
Lake Issyk-Kul
3000 BCE – still standing
Figure · India
Rabindranath Tagore
1861 CE – 1941 CE
Polity
Uzbekistan
Founded 1991 CE · attested to 2026 CE
Conflict
Tajik Civil War
1992 CE – 1997 CEDated moments inside this span
Events the timeline places between 1940 CE and 2011 CE.
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Records running through the same years, on the other side of the map.
Image credits9 pictures from Wikimedia Commons
- Wangarĩ MaathaiKingkongphoto & www.celebrity-photos.com from Laurel Maryland, USA · CC BY-SA 2.0
- Charyn CanyonBgag · CC0
- Nikola TeslaNapoleon Sarony · Public domain
- XinjiangHaziiDozen · CC BY-SA 4.0
- Indonesian National RevolutionFrans Mendur (also Frans Mendoer) (1913 – 1971) · Public domain
- Issyk-KulҚайырқан Әсем · CC BY-SA 4.0
- Rabindranath TagoreGeorges Chevalier · CC BY 4.0
- Flag of UzbekistanFarhod Yoʻldoshev · Public domain
- Tajikistani Civil WarUssuriysk Military School (UsSVU) Dmitry Ivlyov the copyright-holder +7(916)227-88-65 · CC BY-SA 3.0
