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Jerónimos Monastery

1501 CE – still standing

Manueline masterpiece in Lisbon, built to celebrate Vasco da Gama's voyage to India

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Jerónimos Monastery 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–1500 CE)
  2. No border recorded here in this snapshot (1530 CE–2026 CE)

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1200 CE – 1669 CE

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World War II

1939 CE – 1945 CE

Dated moments inside this span

Events the timeline places between 1501 CE and 2026 CE.

1503 CE Seville 1506 CE St. Peter's Basilica 1508 CE War of the League of Cambrai 1514 CE Ottoman–Safavid Wars 1516 CE Ottoman-Mamluk War

And in the rest of the world

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

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