Mount Everest
3000 BCE – still standing
Earth's highest peak at 8,849 meters, on the Nepal-Tibet border
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Mount Everest on Wikipedia.
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Who held this ground
Borders from dated snapshots, up to a century apart; precision varies.
Reconstruction
- No border recorded here in this snapshot (3000 BCE)
- Austroasiatic rice cultures (2000 BCE) Border precision: Approximate
- Tibetans (1500 BCE–700 BCE) Border precision: Approximate
- No border recorded here in this snapshot (500 BCE)
- Proto-Tibetan cultures (400 BCE) Border precision: Approximate
- No border recorded here in this snapshot (323 BCE–300 BCE)
- Thai (200 BCE) Border precision: Approximate
- No border recorded here in this snapshot (100 BCE–500 CE)
- Kanauj (600 CE–700 CE) Border precision: Approximate
- Tibetan Empire (800 CE) Border precision: Approximate
- Tibet (900 CE–1500 CE) Border precision: Approximate
- Islamic and Hindu states (1530 CE–1600 CE) Border precision: Approximate
- Mughal Empire (1650 CE–1715 CE) Border precision: Defined
- Nepal (1783 CE–2026 CE) Border precision: Defined
- Defined
- Approximate
Elsewhere in South Asia 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 · South Asia
Taj Mahal
1632 CE – still standingPolity · South Asia
Tibet
Attested 1000 CE – 1960 CETrade route · South Asia
Harappan Maritime Trade (Indus–Mesopotamia)
2600 BCE – 1900 BCEConflict · South Asia
Naxalite–Maoist Insurgency
1967 CE – 2026 CELandmark · South Asia
Taxila
600 BCE – 500 CEPolity · South Asia
Hindu kingdoms
Attested 500 BCE – 1715 CETrade route · South Asia
Grand Trunk Road
300 BCEConflict · South Asia
2025 India–Pakistan Conflict
2025 CEDated moments inside this span
Events the timeline places between 3000 BCE 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 6 pictures from Wikimedia Commons
- Mount Everest Rdevany · CC BY-SA 3.0
- Taj Mahal Yann; edited by Jim Carter · CC BY-SA 4.0
- Tibet University of Texas Libraries · CC BY-SA 3.0
- Taxila Sasha Isachenko · CC BY-SA 3.0
- Grand Trunk Road Lucas(CA2) · CC BY-SA 4.0
- 2025 India–Pakistan conflict Grubb at English Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0