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Landmark South Asia religious World Heritage

Temples of Bagan

849 CE – still standing

Over 2,000 Buddhist temples across the plains of Myanmar

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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–800 CE)
  2. Pagan (900 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  3. Kingdom of Pagan (1000 CE–1100 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  4. Bagan (1200 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  5. Pagan (1279 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  6. Burmese kingdoms (1300 CE–1600 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  7. Ava (1650 CE–1715 CE) Border precision: Defined
  8. Burma (1783 CE–1815 CE) Border precision: Defined
  9. British Raj (1880 CE–1938 CE) Border precision: Defined
  10. Burma (1945 CE–2026 CE) Border precision: Defined
Border precision
  • Defined
  • Approximate

Elsewhere in South Asia 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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Taj Mahal

1632 CE – still standing

Polity · South Asia

Tibet

Attested 1000 CE – 1960 CE

Conflict · South Asia

Naxalite–Maoist Insurgency

1967 CE – 2026 CE

Landmark · South Asia

Hampi

1336 CE – 1565 CE

Polity · South Asia

Hindu kingdoms

Attested 500 BCE – 1715 CE

Conflict · South Asia

2025 India–Pakistan Conflict

2025 CE

Landmark · South Asia

Anuradhapura

500 BCE – 1017 CE

Polity · South Asia

India

Attested 1783 CE – 2026 CE

Dated moments inside this span

Events the timeline places between 849 CE and 2026 CE.

849 CE Bagan 850 CE Arunachaleswarar Temple 950 CE Khajuraho Temples 1000 CE Calicut 1001 CE Ghaznavid Conquests of India

And in the rest of the world

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

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