Cathedral of Our Lady, Antwerp
1352 CE – still standing
Largest Gothic cathedral in the Low Countries, housing four masterworks by Peter Paul Rubens
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Who held this ground
Borders from dated snapshots, up to a century apart; precision varies.
Reconstruction
- Before it was built (3000 BCE–1300 CE)
- Holy Roman Empire (1400 CE–1500 CE) Border precision: Approximate
- Habsburg Netherlands (1530 CE–1600 CE) Border precision: Approximate
- Spanish Netherlands (1650 CE–1700 CE) Border precision: Defined
- Austrian Netherlands (1715 CE–1783 CE) Border precision: Defined
- France (1800 CE) Border precision: Defined
- Austrian Empire (1815 CE) Border precision: Defined
- Belgium (1880 CE–2026 CE) Border precision: Defined
- Defined
- 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.
Landmark · Europe
Mausoleum at Halicarnassus
350 BCE – 1404 CEPolity · Europe
Ottoman Empire
1299 CE – 1922 CEConflict · Europe
World War I
1914 CE – 1918 CETrade route · Europe
Venice–Constantinople Route
800 CE – 1600 CELandmark · Europe
Butrint
800 BCE – 1800 CEPolity · Europe
Holy Roman Empire
962 CE – 1806 CEConflict · Europe
World War II
1939 CE – 1945 CETrade route · Europe
Viking North Atlantic Route
870 CE – 1400 CEDated moments inside this span
Events the timeline places between 1352 CE and 2026 CE.
And in the rest of the world
Records running through the same years, on the other side of the map.
Image credits 7 pictures from Wikimedia Commons
- Cathedral of Our Lady (Antwerp) Yair Haklai · CC BY-SA 4.0
- Mausoleum at Halicarnassus Jona Lendering · CC0
- Flag of the Ottoman Empire (1844–1922) User:Orwellianist · Public domain
- World War I Collection DocAnciens/docpix.fr · Public domain
- Butrint Geoff Wong · CC BY 2.0
- Banner of the Holy Roman Emperor with haloes (1430-1806) David Liuzzo, eagle by N3MO · CC BY-SA 3.0
- World War II Richard Opitz · CC BY-SA 3.0 de