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Polity East Asia

Laos

Attested 1492 CE – 2026 CE

Country in Southeast Asia

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Why this bar's edges are floors, not a founding and a fall.

The atlas draws the world at 12 moments in time, not continuously. This bar runs from the first snapshot in which Laos appears to the last, so both edges are floors — the earliest and latest years it is attested, not a founding and a dissolution.

1492 CE 12 snapshots · 200 years unattested at the widest 2026 CE
1492 CE1500 CE1530 CE1600 CE1800 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

Maritime Silk Road

200 BCE – 1500 CE

Conflict · East Asia

Sengoku Period (Japanese Warring States)

1467 CE – 1615 CE

Polity · East Asia

Manchu Empire

Attested 1650 CE – 1914 CE

Landmark · East Asia

Ayutthaya

1351 CE – 1767 CE

Trade route · East Asia

Tea Horse Road

700 CE – 1950 CE

Conflict · East Asia

Qing Conquest of Ming Dynasty

1618 CE – 1683 CE

Dated moments inside this span

Events the timeline places between 1492 CE and 2026 CE.

1510 CE Toungoo Dynasty Wars 1510 CE Toungoo Empire Wars 1547 CE Burmese–Siamese Wars 1566 CE Pha That Luang 1571 CE Manila 1571 CE Nagasaki

And in the rest of the world

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

Taj Mahal Landmark · South Asia 1632 CE – still standing Tibet Polity · South Asia 1000 CE – 1960 CE Mesoamerican Trade Network Trade route · Americas 1200 BCE – 1521 CE World War I Conflict · Europe 1914 CE – 1918 CE Christopher Columbus Figure · Spain / Atlantic / Caribbean 1451 CE – 1506 CE Christ the Redeemer Landmark · Americas 1931 CE – still standing
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