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Essex on Wikipedia.
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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 2 moments in time, not continuously. This bar runs from the first snapshot in which Essex 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 Europe 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 · Europe
Cathedral of Santiago de Compostela
829 CE – still standing
Polity · Europe
Sweden
Founded 900 CE · attested to 2026 CEConflict · Europe
Wars of the Kievan Rus'
860 CE – 1240 CETrade route · Europe
Viking North Atlantic Route
870 CE – 1400 CE
Landmark · Europe
Plitvice Lakes
3000 BCE – still standing
Polity · Europe
Norway
Founded 900 CE · attested to 2026 CEConflict · Europe
Charlemagne's Saxon Wars
772 CE – 804 CETrade route · Europe
Venice–Constantinople Route
800 CE – 1600 CEDated moments inside this span
Events the timeline places between 800 CE and 900 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
- EssexDerek Voller · CC BY-SA 2.0
- Santiago de Compostela CathedralFernando · CC BY-SA 4.0
- Flag of SwedenJon Harald Søby and others. · Public domain
- Plitvice Lakes National ParkZysko serhii · CC BY-SA 4.0
- Flag of NorwayOriginal: Fredrik Meltzer Vector: Gutten på Hemsen · Public domain
