
Buganda
1420 CE – 1966 CE · 546 years
Bantu kingdom within Uganda
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Buganda on Wikipedia.
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How these dates were made
Real dates from Wikidata, checked against the atlas.
These are real dates: Buganda's founding and dissolution are recorded in Wikidata, and accepted here only because they agree with the centuries the atlas independently drew it in. The atlas itself draws the world at 3 moments in time, not continuously. The strip below covers those snapshots — 1815 CE to 1900 CE — which sits inside the fuller span above.
Elsewhere in Africa 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.
Landmark · Africa
Royal Hill of Ambohimanga
1500 CE – still standingPolity · Africa
Algeria
Founded 1900 CE · attested to 2026 CEConflict · Africa
Sand War (Algeria–Morocco)
1963 CETrade route · Africa
East African Coastal Trade
900 CE – 1505 CELandmark · Africa
Robben Island
1658 CE – still standingPolity · Africa
Angola
Attested 1815 CE – 2026 CEConflict · Africa
Kanem–Bornu Wars
700 CE – 1846 CETrade route · Africa
Atlantic Middle Passage
1600 CE – 1850 CEDated moments inside this span
Events the timeline places between 1420 CE and 1966 CE.
And in the rest of the world
Records running through the same years, on the other side of the map.
Image credits5 pictures from Wikimedia Commons
- Flag of BugandaMysid · Public domain
- AmbohimangaLemurbaby · CC BY-SA 3.0
- Flag of AlgeriaOriginal: National Liberation Front of Algeria Vector: SKopp · Public domain
- Robben IslandSouth African Tourism from South Africa · CC BY 2.0
- Flag of AngolaOriginal: Henrique de Carvalho Santos Vector: SKopp · Public domain