Skip to content
Medvedevphoto (Владимир Медведев) · CC BY-SA 4.0
Landmark wonder

Lake Elton

3000 BCE – still standing

Europe's largest salt lake, a golden-hued mineral lake in Russia's Volgograd region

See it on the timeline

Wikipedia

The opening of the article, and a way into the rest of it without leaving the site.

Lake Elton on Wikipedia.

Read the article Open on Wikipedia ↗

Running at the same 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.

See the whole view

Polity

central Asian khanates

Attested 1530 CE – 1900 CE

Landmark

Mogao Caves

366 CE – still standing

Figure · Mesopotamia

Sargon of Akkad

2334 BCE – 2279 BCE

Trade route

Silk Road Southern Branch

200 BCE – 1450 CE

Conflict

Mongol Conquests

1206 CE – 1368 CE

Polity

Srivijaya Empire

650 CE – 1400 CE

Landmark

Mausoleum of Khoja Ahmed Yasawi

1389 CE – still standing

Figure · Egypt / Sinai / Canaan

Moses

1391 BCE – 1271 BCE

Dated moments inside this span

Events the timeline places between 3000 BCE and 2026 CE.

3000 BCE Sulaiman-Too Sacred Mountain 500 BCE Bukhara 500 BCE Afrasiab (Ancient Samarkand) 300 BCE Samarkand 200 BCE Kashgar 200 BCE Dunhuang

And in the rest of the world

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

Great Pyramid of Giza Landmark · Middle East 2560 BCE – still standing Tibet Polity · South Asia 1000 CE – 1960 CE World War I Conflict · Europe 1914 CE – 1918 CE Nile River Trade Trade route · Middle East 3000 BCE – 30 BCE Great Wall of China Landmark · East Asia 700 BCE – still standing Ottoman Empire Polity · Europe 1299 CE – 1922 CE
Image credits7 pictures from Wikimedia Commons