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Flag of Sri Lanka
Original: Sri Lanka Vectorization: Zscout370, Mike Rohsopht · Public domain
Polity South Asia

Ceylon

Attested 1650 CE – 1938 CE

Country in South Asia

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How these dates were made

Why this bar's edges are floors, not a founding and a fall.

The atlas draws the world at 10 moments in time, not continuously. This bar runs from the first snapshot in which Ceylon appears to the last, so both edges are floors — the earliest and latest years it is attested, not a founding and a dissolution.

1650 CE 10 snapshots 1938 CE
1650 CE1700 CE1715 CE1815 CE1880 CE1900 CE1914 CE1920 CE1930 CE1938 CE

Elsewhere in South Asia 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 · South Asia

Jama Masjid

1656 CE – still standing

Polity · South Asia

Hindu kingdoms

Attested 500 BCE – 1715 CE

Conflict · South Asia

Mughal Conquests of India

1526 CE – 1707 CE

Landmark · South Asia

Badshahi Mosque

1673 CE – still standing

Polity · South Asia

India

Attested 1783 CE – 2026 CE

Conflict · South Asia

Anglo-Maratha Wars

1775 CE – 1818 CE

Landmark · South Asia

Calcutta (Kolkata)

1690 CE – still standing

Polity · South Asia

British Raj

1858 CE – 1947 CE

Dated moments inside this span

Events the timeline places between 1650 CE and 1938 CE.

1656 CE Jama Masjid 1673 CE Badshahi Mosque 1674 CE Maratha Empire Expansion 1680 CE Mughal–Maratha Wars 1690 CE Calcutta (Kolkata) 1692 CE Taktsang Palphug Monastery

And in the rest of the world

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

Christ the Redeemer Landmark · Americas 1931 CE – still standing Ottoman Empire Polity · Europe 1299 CE – 1922 CE World War I Conflict · Europe 1914 CE – 1918 CE Hanseatic League Trade route · Europe 1200 CE – 1669 CE Queen Nzinga Figure · Angola 1583 CE – 1663 CE Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump Landmark · Americas 3700 BCE – 1850 CE
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