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Polity Africa

Delagoa Bay

Attested 1650 CE – 1815 CE

Bay in Mozambique

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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 6 moments in time, not continuously. This bar runs from the first snapshot in which Delagoa Bay 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 6 snapshots 1815 CE
1650 CE1700 CE1715 CE1783 CE1800 CE1815 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

Robben Island

1658 CE – still standing

Polity · Africa

Angola

Attested 1815 CE – 2026 CE

Conflict · Africa

Wars of the Kingdom of Kongo

1390 CE – 1709 CE

Trade route · Africa

Atlantic Middle Passage

1600 CE – 1850 CE

Landmark · Africa

Thulamela

1250 CE – 1700 CE

Polity · Africa

Sierra Leone

Attested 1815 CE – 2026 CE

Conflict · Africa

Queen Nzinga's Wars Against Portugal

1624 CE – 1656 CE

Landmark · Africa

Taï National Park

3000 BCE – still standing

Dated moments inside this span

Events the timeline places between 1650 CE and 1815 CE.

1684 CE Rozvi Empire Wars 1801 CE First Barbary War 1804 CE Fulani Jihad / Sokoto Caliphate 1815 CE Mfecane (The Crushing) 1652 CE Anglo-Dutch Wars 1652 CE First Anglo-Dutch War

And in the rest of the world

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

Butrint Landmark · Europe 800 BCE – 1800 CE Canada Polity · Americas Founded 1815 CE · attested to 2026 CE Hanseatic League Trade route · Europe 1200 CE – 1669 CE Hawaiian Unification Wars Conflict · Americas 1782 CE – 1810 CE Queen Nzinga Figure · Angola 1583 CE – 1663 CE Ragusa (Dubrovnik) Landmark · Europe 700 CE – 1808 CE
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