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Landmark Americas religious

Cathedral of Brasília

1958 CE – still standing

Oscar Niemeyer's hyperboloid modernist cathedral of curved concrete columns

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Cathedral of Brasília on Wikipedia.

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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–1945 CE)
  2. Brazil (1960 CE–2026 CE) Border precision: Defined
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  • Defined

Elsewhere in Americas at the time

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Landmark · Americas

Grand Canyon

3000 BCE – still standing

Polity · Americas

British Guiana

1783 CE – 1966 CE

Conflict · Americas

Ecuadorian Internal Conflict

2024 CE – 2026 CE

Landmark · Americas

Mammoth Cave

3000 BCE – still standing

Polity · Americas

Canada

Founded 1815 CE · attested to 2026 CE

Conflict · Americas

Salvadoran Civil War

1979 CE – 1992 CE

Landmark · Americas

Hawaii Volcanoes

3000 BCE – still standing

Polity · Americas

Mexico

Founded 1810 CE · attested to 2026 CE

Dated moments inside this span

Events the timeline places between 1958 CE and 2026 CE.

1960 CE Guatemalan Civil War 1964 CE Colombian Armed Conflict 1964 CE Fly Geyser 1965 CE Dominican Civil War 1969 CE Football War

And in the rest of the world

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

Darvaza Gas Crater Landmark · Middle East 1971 CE – still standing Tibet Polity · South Asia 1000 CE – 1960 CE Winston Churchill Figure · Britain 1874 CE – 1965 CE Naxalite–Maoist Insurgency Conflict · South Asia 1967 CE – 2026 CE China–Europe Railway (Belt and Road) Trade route · East Asia 2011 CE Great Mosque of Touba Landmark · Africa 1963 CE – still standing
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