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Polity East Asia

Hong Kong

Attested 1650 CE – 2026 CE

Special administrative region of China

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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 Hong Kong 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 18 snapshots 2026 CE
1650 CE1700 CE1715 CE1783 CE1800 CE1815 CE1880 CE1900 CE1914 CE1920 CE1930 CE1938 CE1945 CE1960 CE1994 CE2000 CE2010 CE2026 CE

Elsewhere in East Asia 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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Polity · East Asia

China

Founded 1945 CE · attested to 2026 CE

Landmark · East Asia

House of Taga

900 CE – 1700 CE

Trade route · East Asia

Tea Horse Road

700 CE – 1950 CE

Conflict · East Asia

Qing Conquest of Ming Dynasty

1618 CE – 1683 CE

Polity · East Asia

Manchu Empire

Attested 1650 CE – 1914 CE

Landmark · East Asia

Ayutthaya

1351 CE – 1767 CE

Trade route · East Asia

Manila Galleon Trade

1565 CE – 1815 CE

Conflict · East Asia

First Opium War

1839 CE – 1842 CE

Dated moments inside this span

Events the timeline places between 1650 CE and 2026 CE.

1656 CE Wat Arun 1759 CE Konbaung–Siam Wars 1765 CE Sino-Burmese War 1771 CE Tay Son Rebellion 1782 CE Wat Phra Kaew 1796 CE White Lotus Rebellion

And in the rest of the world

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

Christ the Redeemer Landmark · Americas 1931 CE – still standing Tibet Polity · South Asia 1000 CE – 1960 CE World War I Conflict · Europe 1914 CE – 1918 CE Hanseatic League Trade route · Europe 1200 CE – 1669 CE Queen Nzinga Figure · Angola 1583 CE – 1663 CE Parícutin Volcano Landmark · Americas 1943 CE – still standing
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