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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 3 moments in time, not continuously. This bar runs from the first snapshot in which Geneva 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
Seville
1503 CE – 1717 CE
Polity · Europe
Russian Empire
1721 CE – 1917 CE
Conflict · Europe
War of the Spanish Succession
1701 CE – 1714 CETrade route · Europe
Portuguese Spice Route
1498 CE – 1700 CE
Landmark · Europe
Plitvice Lakes
3000 BCE – still standing
Polity · Europe
Netherlands
Founded 1715 CE · attested to 2026 CE
Conflict · Europe
War of the Austrian Succession
1740 CE – 1748 CE
Trade route · Europe
Spanish Treasure Fleet
1566 CE – 1790 CEDated moments inside this span
Events the timeline places between 1700 CE and 1783 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
- Genevafr:Utilisateur:Stéphane_Pecorini · CC BY-SA 2.0 fr
- SevilleIngo Mehling · CC BY-SA 4.0
- Flag of RussiaPeter the Great · Public domain
- War of the Spanish SuccessionDavidDijkgraaf · CC0
- Plitvice Lakes National ParkZysko serhii · CC BY-SA 4.0
- Flag of the NetherlandsZscout370 · Public domain
- War of the Austrian SuccessionDavidDijkgraaf · CC0
- Spanish treasure fleetWorld_Topography.jpg : NASA/JPL/NIMA derivative work: Uxbona ( talk ) · Public domain
