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Igreja de São Francisco de Assis (Ouro Preto)

1766 CE – still standing

Brazilian Rococo masterpiece by the sculptor Aleijadinho in the colonial gold-rush town of Ouro Preto, Minas Gerais.

Who held this ground

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

Reconstruction

  1. Before it was built (3000 BCE–1715 CE)
  2. Vice-Royalty of Brazil (1783 CE–1800 CE) Border precision: Defined
  3. Viceroyalty of Brazil (1815 CE) Border precision: Defined
  4. Empire of Brazil (1880 CE) Border precision: Defined
  5. Brazil (1900 CE–2026 CE) Border precision: Defined
Border precision
  • Defined

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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Image credits 4 pictures from Wikimedia Commons
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  • Flag of Canada (Pantone) Original: George F. G. Stanley Modified by: The original uploader was Illegitimate Barris… · Public domain
  • Parícutin Karla Yannín Alcázar Quintero (photographer) · CC BY 2.0
  • Flag of Mexico Omar Alejandro Covarrubias Neri, 9 April 2006. Based on the 1968 arms by Francisco Eppens… · Public domain