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Landmark Americas trade

Charleston

1670 CE – still standing

Major colonial port in British North America, center of the rice and indigo trade and one of the busiest slave trading ports in the Americas

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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–1650 CE)
  2. No border recorded here in this snapshot (1700 CE–1715 CE)
  3. United States of America (1783 CE–1800 CE) Border precision: Defined
  4. United States (1815 CE) Border precision: Defined
  5. United States of America (1880 CE–1900 CE) Border precision: Defined
  6. United States (1914 CE–2026 CE) Border precision: Defined
Border precision
  • Defined

Elsewhere in Americas 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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Landmark · Americas

Christ the Redeemer

1931 CE – still standing

Polity · Americas

Canada

Founded 1815 CE · attested to 2026 CE

Trade route · Americas

Spanish Treasure Fleet Return

1566 CE – 1790 CE

Conflict · Americas

Hawaiian Unification Wars

1782 CE – 1810 CE

Landmark · Americas

Parícutin Volcano

1943 CE – still standing

Polity · Americas

Mexico

Founded 1810 CE · attested to 2026 CE

Trade route · Americas

Atlantic Return (Sugar & Tobacco)

1600 CE – 1850 CE

Conflict · Americas

Argentine War of Independence

1810 CE – 1818 CE

Dated moments inside this span

Events the timeline places between 1670 CE and 2026 CE.

1675 CE King Philip's War 1680 CE Pueblo Revolt 1692 CE Mission San Xavier del Bac 1706 CE Comanche Wars 1709 CE Basilica of Our Lady of Guadalupe

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 World War I Conflict · Europe 1914 CE – 1918 CE Tea Horse Road Trade route · East Asia 700 CE – 1950 CE John Locke Figure · England 1632 CE – 1704 CE Butrint Landmark · Europe 800 BCE – 1800 CE
Image credits 4 pictures from Wikimedia Commons
  • Christ the Redeemer (statue) Arne Müseler · CC BY-SA 3.0 de
  • Flag of Canada (Pantone) Original: George F. G. Stanley Modified by: The original uploader was Illegitimate Barris… · Public domain
  • Parícutin Karla Yannín Alcázar Quintero (photographer) · CC BY 2.0
  • Flag of Mexico Omar Alejandro Covarrubias Neri, 9 April 2006. Based on the 1968 arms by Francisco Eppens… · Public domain