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Landmark Africa religious

Cathedral Notre-Dame du Congo

1914 CE – still standing

Monumental cathedral in Kinshasa, one of the largest churches in Central Africa

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Reconstruction

  1. Before it was built (3000 BCE–1900 CE)
  2. Belgian Congo (1914 CE–1945 CE) Border precision: Defined
  3. Congo (Léopoldville) (1960 CE) Border precision: Defined
  4. Zaire (1994 CE) Border precision: Defined
  5. Democratic Republic of the Congo (2000 CE–2026 CE) Border precision: Defined
Border precision
  • Defined

Elsewhere in Africa at the time

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Landmark · Africa

Namugongo Martyrs' Shrine

1920 CE – still standing

Polity · Africa

Sudan

Founded 1920 CE · attested to 2026 CE

Conflict · Africa

Sand War (Algeria–Morocco)

1963 CE

Landmark · Africa

Great Mosque of Touba

1963 CE – still standing

Polity · Africa

Kenya

Founded 1920 CE · attested to 2026 CE

Conflict · Africa

Nigerian Civil War (Biafra)

1967 CE – 1970 CE

Landmark · Africa

Basilica of Our Lady of Peace

1985 CE – still standing

Polity · Africa

Guinea-Bissau

Founded 1920 CE · attested to 2026 CE

Dated moments inside this span

Events the timeline places between 1914 CE and 2026 CE.

1914 CE East African Campaign (WWI) 1920 CE Namugongo Martyrs' Shrine 1934 CE Italo-Abyssinian Border War (Walwal Incident) 1935 CE Second Italo-Ethiopian War 1947 CE Malagasy Uprising

And in the rest of the world

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

Christ the Redeemer Landmark · Americas 1931 CE – still standing Tibet Polity · South Asia 1000 CE – 1960 CE Tea Horse Road Trade route · East Asia 700 CE – 1950 CE Thomas Edison Figure · United States 1847 CE – 1931 CE World War I Conflict · Europe 1914 CE – 1918 CE Parícutin Volcano Landmark · Americas 1943 CE – still standing
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