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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.
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.
Landmark · South Asia
Jama Masjid
1656 CE – still standingPolity · South Asia
Hindu kingdoms
Attested 500 BCE – 1715 CEConflict · 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 CEConflict · 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 CEDated moments inside this span
Events the timeline places between 1650 CE and 1938 CE.
And in the rest of the world
Records running through the same years, on the other side of the map.
Image credits6 pictures from Wikimedia Commons
- Flag of Sri LankaOriginal: Sri Lanka Vectorization: Zscout370, Mike Rohsopht · Public domain
- Congregational mosqueSaudipics.com · CC BY-SA 4.0
- Badshahi MosqueRomero Maia · CC BY-SA 4.0
- Flag of IndiaGovernment of India · Public domain
- KolkataNalGup20 · CC BY-SA 4.0
- British RajEdinburgh Geographical Institute; J. G. Bartholomew and Sons. · Public domain
