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Jefferson National Expansion Memorial, NPS from St. Louis, MO, USA · CC BY 2.0
Landmark Americas trade

St. Louis

1764 CE – still standing

Founded as a French fur-trading post at the Mississippi-Missouri confluence, it became the commercial gateway to the American West and the Rocky Mountain fur trade.

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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–1715 CE)
  2. Luisiana (1783 CE–1800 CE) Border precision: Defined
  3. United States (1815 CE) Border precision: Defined
  4. United States of America (1880 CE–1900 CE) Border precision: Defined
  5. United States (1914 CE–2026 CE) Border precision: Defined
Border precision
  • Defined

Elsewhere in Americas at the time

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Landmark · Americas

Christ the Redeemer

1931 CE – still standing

Polity · Americas

Canada

Founded 1815 CE · attested to 2026 CE

Trade route · Americas

Spanish Treasure Fleet Return

1566 CE – 1790 CE

Conflict · Americas

Hawaiian Unification Wars

1782 CE – 1810 CE

Landmark · Americas

Parícutin Volcano

1943 CE – still standing

Polity · Americas

Mexico

Founded 1810 CE · attested to 2026 CE

Trade route · Americas

Atlantic Return (Sugar & Tobacco)

1600 CE – 1850 CE

Conflict · Americas

Argentine War of Independence

1810 CE – 1818 CE

Dated moments inside this span

Events the timeline places between 1764 CE and 2026 CE.

1775 CE American Revolutionary War 1775 CE Battle of Bunker Hill 1777 CE Battle of Saratoga 1781 CE Battle of Yorktown 1782 CE Hawaiian Unification Wars 1782 CE Hawaiian Wars of Unification

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 Voltaire Figure · France 1694 CE – 1778 CE Butrint Landmark · Europe 800 BCE – 1800 CE
Image credits 5 pictures from Wikimedia Commons
  • St. Louis Jefferson National Expansion Memorial, NPS from St. Louis, MO, USA · CC BY 2.0
  • Christ the Redeemer (statue) Arne Müseler · CC BY-SA 3.0 de
  • 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