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Bighorn Medicine Wheel

1200 CE – still standing

Sacred stone circle of 28 radiating spokes high in Wyoming's Bighorn Mountains, used by Plains peoples for ceremonies aligned to the solstice sun.

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Medicine Wheel/Medicine Mountain National Historic Landmark on Wikipedia.

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Elsewhere in Americas at the time

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Landmark · Americas

Machu Picchu

1450 CE – still standing

Polity · Americas

Canada

Founded 1815 CE · attested to 2026 CE

Trade route · Americas

Mesoamerican Trade Network

1200 BCE – 1521 CE

Conflict · Americas

Hawaiian Unification Wars

1782 CE – 1810 CE

Landmark · Americas

Christ the Redeemer

1931 CE – still standing

Polity · Americas

Mexico

Founded 1810 CE · attested to 2026 CE

Trade route · Americas

Polynesian Eastward Voyaging

700 CE – 1300 CE

Conflict · Americas

Argentine War of Independence

1810 CE – 1818 CE

Dated moments inside this span

Events the timeline places between 1200 CE and 2026 CE.

1200 CE Easter Island (Rapa Nui) 1200 CE Tulum 1250 CE Rano Raraku 1325 CE Templo Mayor 1325 CE Tenochtitlán Market 1400 CE Puʻuhonua o Hōnaunau

And in the rest of the world

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

Taj Mahal Landmark · South Asia 1632 CE – still standing Tibet Polity · South Asia 1000 CE – 1960 CE Mediterranean Southern Route Trade route · Middle East 331 BCE – 1500 CE World War I Conflict · Europe 1914 CE – 1918 CE Zhu Xi Figure · Fujian and Jiangxi, Southern Song dynasty China 1130 CE – 1200 CE Mausoleum at Halicarnassus Landmark · Europe 350 BCE – 1404 CE
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