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Landmark Americas religious

Cathedral of San Juan Bautista

1521 CE – still standing

One of the oldest churches in the Americas, in Old San Juan, Puerto Rico

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Cathedral of San Juan, Puerto Rico 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. Hispaniola (Spain) (1530 CE–1700 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  3. Puerto Rico (Spain) (1715 CE) Border precision: Defined
  4. Spain (1783 CE–1880 CE) Border precision: Defined
  5. United States of America (1900 CE) Border precision: Defined
  6. Puerto Rico (1914 CE–2026 CE) Border precision: Defined
Border precision
  • Defined
  • Approximate

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1931 CE – still standing

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1200 BCE – 1521 CE

Conflict · Americas

Hawaiian Unification Wars

1782 CE – 1810 CE

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1943 CE – still standing

Polity · Americas

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Founded 1810 CE · attested to 2026 CE

Trade route · Americas

Qhapaq Ñan (Inca Royal Road)

1400 CE – 1572 CE

Conflict · Americas

Argentine War of Independence

1810 CE – 1818 CE

Dated moments inside this span

Events the timeline places between 1521 CE and 2026 CE.

1521 CE Fall of Tenochtitlán 1529 CE Inca Civil War 1532 CE Spanish Conquest of the Inca Empire 1532 CE Battle of Cajamarca 1533 CE Cartagena de Indias

And in the rest of the world

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

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