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St. Bavo's Cathedral

942 CE – still standing

Gothic cathedral in Ghent, home to the van Eyck brothers' Ghent Altarpiece, one of the most important artworks in Western art

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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–900 CE)
  2. Holy Roman Empire (1000 CE–1500 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  3. Habsburg Netherlands (1530 CE–1600 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  4. Spanish Netherlands (1650 CE–1700 CE) Border precision: Defined
  5. Austrian Netherlands (1715 CE–1783 CE) Border precision: Defined
  6. France (1800 CE) Border precision: Defined
  7. Austrian Empire (1815 CE) Border precision: Defined
  8. Belgium (1880 CE–2026 CE) Border precision: Defined
Border precision
  • Defined
  • Approximate

Elsewhere in Europe 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 · Europe

Mausoleum at Halicarnassus

350 BCE – 1404 CE

Polity · Europe

Ottoman Empire

1299 CE – 1922 CE

Conflict · Europe

World War I

1914 CE – 1918 CE

Trade route · Europe

Venice–Constantinople Route

800 CE – 1600 CE

Landmark · Europe

Butrint

800 BCE – 1800 CE

Polity · Europe

Holy Roman Empire

962 CE – 1806 CE

Conflict · Europe

World War II

1939 CE – 1945 CE

Trade route · Europe

Varangian Trade Route

800 CE – 1100 CE

Dated moments inside this span

Events the timeline places between 942 CE and 2026 CE.

955 CE Battle of Lechfeld 960 CE Westminster Abbey 963 CE Mount Athos 966 CE Mont-Saint-Michel 997 CE Gdańsk

And in the rest of the world

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

Machu Picchu Landmark · Americas 1450 CE – still standing Tibet Polity · South Asia 1000 CE – 1960 CE Mesoamerican Trade Network Trade route · Americas 1200 BCE – 1521 CE Sengoku Period (Japanese Warring States) Conflict · East Asia 1467 CE – 1615 CE Saadia Gaon Figure · Egypt & Babylonia 882 CE – 942 CE Taj Mahal Landmark · South Asia 1632 CE – still standing
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