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Landmark Europe archaeological

Avebury

2850 BCE – 2200 BCE · 650 years

Largest stone circle in Europe, enclosing an entire village within its Neolithic henge — arguably more impressive in scale than Stonehenge

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Who held this ground

Borders from dated snapshots, up to a century apart; precision varies.

Reconstruction

  1. Before it was built (3000 BCE)
  2. Beaker (2000 BCE) Border precision: Approximate
  3. Urnfield cultures (1500 BCE–700 BCE) Border precision: Approximate
  4. No border recorded here in this snapshot (500 BCE)
  5. Celts (400 BCE–100 BCE) Border precision: Approximate
  6. No border recorded here in this snapshot (1 BCE)
  7. Roman Empire (100 CE–200 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  8. Rome (Constantius) (300 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  9. Western Roman Empire (400 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  10. Anglo-Saxons (500 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  11. Cantia (600 CE–700 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  12. Wessex (800 CE–900 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  13. England (1000 CE–1100 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  14. Angevin Empire (1200 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  15. English territory (1279 CE–1400 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  16. England (1492 CE–1500 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  17. England and Ireland (1530 CE–1700 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  18. United Kingdom (1715 CE) Border precision: Defined
  19. Kingdom of Great Britain (1783 CE–1800 CE) Border precision: Defined
  20. United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland (1815 CE–1930 CE) Border precision: Defined
  21. United Kingdom (1938 CE–2026 CE) Border precision: Defined
Border precision
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  • Approximate

Elsewhere in Europe at the time

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.

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Landmark · Europe

Tarxien Temples

3600 BCE – 2500 BCE

Polity · Europe

Beaker

2600 BCE – 1800 BCE

Landmark · Europe

Skara Brae

3180 BCE – 2500 BCE

Polity · Europe

Yamnaya culture

3299 BCE – 2599 BCE

Landmark · Europe

Plitvice Lakes

3000 BCE – still standing

Polity · Europe

Catacomb culture

2499 BCE – 1999 BCE

Landmark · Europe

Giant's Causeway

3000 BCE – still standing

Polity · Europe

city-states

Attested 3000 BCE – 2000 BCE

Dated moments inside this span

Events the timeline places between 2850 BCE and 2200 BCE.

2750 BCE Tyre 2700 BCE Saqqara 2600 BCE Royal Tombs of Ur 2560 BCE Great Pyramid of Giza 2500 BCE Umma–Lagash Border War

And in the rest of the world

Records running through the same years, on the other side of the map.

Great Pyramid of Giza Landmark · Middle East 2560 BCE – still standing Andronovo Polity · Middle East 2299 BCE – 999 BCE Harappan Maritime Trade (Indus–Mesopotamia) Trade route · South Asia 2600 BCE – 1900 BCE Early Sumerian City-State Wars Conflict · Middle East 2900 BCE – 2350 BCE Sargon of Akkad Figure · Mesopotamia 2334 BCE – 2279 BCE Great Sphinx of Giza Landmark · Middle East 2500 BCE – still standing
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