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Polity Africa

Congo

Attested 1492 CE – 2026 CE

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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 18 moments in time, not continuously. This bar runs from the first snapshot in which Congo appears to the last, so both edges are floors — the earliest and latest years it is attested, not a founding and a dissolution.

1492 CE 18 snapshots 2026 CE
1492 CE1500 CE1530 CE1600 CE1650 CE1700 CE1715 CE1783 CE1800 CE1815 CE1880 CE1900 CE1945 CE1960 CE1994 CE2000 CE2010 CE2026 CE

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.

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Landmark · Africa

Royal Hill of Ambohimanga

1500 CE – still standing

Polity · Africa

Algeria

Founded 1900 CE · attested to 2026 CE

Conflict · Africa

Sand War (Algeria–Morocco)

1963 CE

Trade route · Africa

East African Coastal Trade

900 CE – 1505 CE

Landmark · Africa

Robben Island

1658 CE – still standing

Polity · Africa

Angola

Attested 1815 CE – 2026 CE

Conflict · Africa

Nigerian Civil War (Biafra)

1967 CE – 1970 CE

Trade route · Africa

Atlantic Middle Passage

1600 CE – 1850 CE

Dated moments inside this span

Events the timeline places between 1492 CE and 2026 CE.

1495 CE Tomb of the Askia 1500 CE Royal Hill of Ambohimanga 1529 CE Ethiopian–Adal War 1550 CE Oyo Empire Wars 1575 CE Luanda 1591 CE Moroccan Invasion of Songhai

And in the rest of the world

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

Taj Mahal Landmark · South Asia 1632 CE – still standing Tibet Polity · South Asia 1000 CE – 1960 CE Mesoamerican Trade Network Trade route · Americas 1200 BCE – 1521 CE World War I Conflict · Europe 1914 CE – 1918 CE Christopher Columbus Figure · Spain / Atlantic / Caribbean 1451 CE – 1506 CE Christ the Redeemer Landmark · Americas 1931 CE – still standing
Image credits4 pictures from Wikimedia Commons
  • 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