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Landmark Americas archaeological

Chan Chan

850 CE – still standing

Largest pre-Columbian adobe city, capital of the Chimú Empire

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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. Huari Empire (900 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  3. Chimú Empire (1000 CE–1400 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  4. Wari (1492 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  5. Inca Empire (1500 CE–1530 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  6. Vice-Royalty of Peru (1600 CE–1815 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  7. Peru (1880 CE–2026 CE) Border precision: Defined
Border precision
  • Defined
  • Approximate

Elsewhere in Americas at the time

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1450 CE – still standing

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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 850 CE and 2026 CE.

850 CE Quilmes Ruins 850 CE Chaco Canyon 850 CE Ciudadela of Chan Chan 900 CE Toltec Wars 950 CE Tongan Empire Expansion

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 Al-Khwarizmi Figure · Baghdad 780 CE – 850 CE Mausoleum at Halicarnassus Landmark · Europe 350 BCE – 1404 CE
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