How these dates were made
Why this bar's edges are floors, not a founding and a fall.
The atlas draws the world at one moment in time, not continuously. This bar runs from the first snapshot in which Mysore (Indian princely state) 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
Taj Mahal
1632 CE – still standingPolity · South Asia
Tibet
Attested 1000 CE – 1960 CEConflict · South Asia
Anglo-Maratha Wars
1775 CE – 1818 CELandmark · South Asia
Mount Everest
3000 BCE – still standingPolity · South Asia
India
Attested 1783 CE – 2026 CEConflict · South Asia
Durrani Empire Conquests
1747 CE – 1823 CELandmark · South Asia
Western Ghats
3000 BCE – still standingPolity · South Asia
Mughal Empire
1526 CE – 1857 CEDated moments inside this span
Events the timeline places between 1815 CE and 1815 CE.
And in the rest of the world
Records running through the same years, on the other side of the map.
Image credits6 pictures from Wikimedia Commons
- Taj MahalYann; edited by Jim Carter · CC BY-SA 4.0
- TibetUniversity of Texas Libraries · CC BY-SA 3.0
- Mount EverestRdevany · CC BY-SA 3.0
- Flag of IndiaGovernment of India · Public domain
- Western GhatsMdmadhu · CC BY-SA 4.0
- Mughal EmpireJustus Perthes, Gotha./Charles Joppen · GFDL