
Gambia
Founded 1880 CE · attested to 1900 CE
Country in West Africa
Wikipedia
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The Gambia on Wikipedia.
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How these dates were made
Real dates from Wikidata, checked against the atlas.
These are real dates: Gambia's founding is recorded in Wikidata, and accepted here only because they agree with the centuries the atlas independently drew it in. No dissolution is recorded, so the closing year below is still the last century the atlas drew — not when it ended. The atlas itself draws the world at 2 moments in time, not continuously. The strip below covers those snapshots — 1880 CE to 1900 CE — which sits inside the fuller span above.
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.
Landmark · Africa
Taï National Park
3000 BCE – still standingPolity · Africa
Algeria
Founded 1900 CE · attested to 2026 CEConflict · Africa
First Boer War
1880 CE – 1881 CELandmark · Africa
Rwenzori Mountains
3000 BCE – still standingPolity · Africa
Tunisia
Founded 1900 CE · attested to 2026 CEConflict · Africa
Mandinka Wars (Samori Ture's Resistance)
1883 CE – 1898 CELandmark · Africa
Serengeti National Park
3000 BCE – still standingPolity · Africa
British Somaliland
1884 CE – 1960 CEDated moments inside this span
Events the timeline places between 1880 CE and 1900 CE.
And in the rest of the world
Records running through the same years, on the other side of the map.
Image credits8 pictures from Wikimedia Commons
- Flag of The GambiaVzb83 i The source code of the previous SVG was invalid due to 39 errors. · Public domain
- Taï National Parkyakovlev.alexey from Moscow, Russia · CC BY-SA 2.0
- Flag of AlgeriaOriginal: National Liberation Front of Algeria Vector: SKopp · Public domain
- First Boer WarFidodog14 · CC BY-SA 4.0
- Rwenzori MountainsNick06 · CC BY-SA 3.0
- Flag of TunisiaVarious Wikimedia Commons' contributors · Public domain
- Serengeti National ParkBjørn Christian Tørrissen · CC BY-SA 3.0
- Flag of British Somaliland (1903–1950)Sodacan · CC BY-SA 4.0