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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 9 moments in time, not continuously. This bar runs from the first snapshot in which India 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 South 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.
Landmark · South Asia
Faisal Mosque
1986 CE – still standing
Polity · South Asia
Tibet
Attested 1000 CE – 1960 CEConflict · South Asia
Naxalite–Maoist Insurgency
1967 CE – 2026 CE.jpeg/500px-Taj_Mahal_(Edited).jpeg)
Landmark · South Asia
Taj Mahal
1632 CE – still standing
Polity · South Asia
British Raj
1858 CE – 1947 CE
Conflict · South Asia
2025 India–Pakistan Conflict
2025 CE
Landmark · South Asia
Mount Everest
3000 BCE – still standing
Polity · South Asia
Mughal Empire
1526 CE – 1857 CEDated moments inside this span
Events the timeline places between 1783 CE and 2026 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 IndiaGovernment of India · Public domain
- Faisal MosqueAli Mujtaba · CC BY-SA 4.0
- TibetUniversity of Texas Libraries · CC BY-SA 3.0
- Taj MahalYann; edited by Jim Carter · CC BY-SA 4.0
- British RajEdinburgh Geographical Institute; J. G. Bartholomew and Sons. · Public domain
- 2025 India–Pakistan conflictGrubb at English Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0
- Mount EverestRdevany · CC BY-SA 3.0
- Mughal EmpireJustus Perthes, Gotha./Charles Joppen · GFDL
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