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Remi Jouan · CC BY-SA 3.0

Landmark Americas trade

Papeete

1842 CE – still standing

Principal port of Tahiti, developed under the French protectorate from 1842 as the commercial and shipping hub of the central Pacific.

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Papeete on Wikipedia.

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Who held this ground

Borders from dated snapshots, up to a century apart; precision varies.

Reconstruction

Before it was built (3000 BCE–1815 CE)
No border recorded here in this snapshot (1880 CE–2026 CE)

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

Greenland

Attested 1880 CE – 2026 CE

Trade route · Americas

Atlantic Return (Sugar & Tobacco)

1600 CE – 1850 CE

Conflict · Americas

Ecuadorian Internal Conflict

2024 CE – 2026 CE

Landmark · Americas

Parícutin Volcano

1943 CE – still standing

Polity · Americas

United States of America

Founded 1783 CE · attested to 1900 CE

Trade route · Americas

Panama Canal Route

Conflict · Americas

Argentine Civil Wars

1814 CE – 1880 CE

Dated moments inside this span

Events the timeline places between 1842 CE and 2026 CE.

1846 CE Mexican–American War 1849 CE Apache Wars 1850 CE Apia 1853 CE Salt Lake Temple 1861 CE American Civil War 1861 CE French Intervention in Mexico

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 Andrew Jackson Figure · United States 1767 CE – 1845 CE Thimlich Ohinga Landmark · Africa 1400 BCE – 1900 CE

Image credits 6 pictures from Wikimedia Commons

Papeete Remi Jouan · CC BY-SA 3.0
Christ the Redeemer (statue) Arne Müseler · CC BY-SA 3.0 de
Flag of Greenland Jeffrey Connell ( IceKarma ) · Public domain
Parícutin Karla Yannín Alcázar Quintero (photographer) · CC BY 2.0
Flag of the United States (DDD-F-416E specifications) Vector file created by Dbenbenn, Zscout370, Jacobolus, Indolences, and Technion. · Public domain
Argentine Civil Wars La_conducción_del_cadáver_de_Lavalle_en_la_quebrada_de_Humahuaca.JPG : Nicanor Blanes Bat… · Public domain