Polity Americas

Rapa Nui

Attested 1900 CE – 2026 CE

Island in the southeastern Pacific

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

The atlas draws the world at 11 moments in time, not continuously. This bar runs from the first snapshot in which Rapa Nui appears to the last, so both edges are floors — the earliest and latest years it is attested, not a founding and a dissolution.

1900 CE 11 snapshots 2026 CE

1900 CE 1914 CE 1920 CE 1930 CE 1938 CE 1945 CE 1960 CE 1994 CE 2000 CE 2010 CE 2026 CE

Elsewhere in Americas 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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Landmark · Americas

Christ the Redeemer

1931 CE – still standing

Polity · Americas

United States of America

Founded 1783 CE · attested to 1900 CE

Conflict · Americas

Ecuadorian Internal Conflict

2024 CE – 2026 CE

Trade route · Americas

Panama Canal Route

1914 CE

Landmark · Americas

Parícutin Volcano

1943 CE – still standing

Polity · Americas

Panama

Founded 1903 CE · attested to 2026 CE

Conflict · Americas

Chaco War

1932 CE – 1935 CE

Landmark · Americas

Washington National Cathedral

1907 CE – still standing

Dated moments inside this span

Events the timeline places between 1900 CE and 2026 CE.

1907 CE Washington National Cathedral 1910 CE Mexican Revolution 1914 CE Panama Canal 1915 CE U.S. Occupation of Haiti 1916 CE Las Lajas Sanctuary 1926 CE Cristero War

And in the rest of the world

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

Darvaza Gas Crater Landmark · Middle East 1971 CE – still standing Tibet Polity · South Asia 1000 CE – 1960 CE Tea Horse Road Trade route · East Asia 700 CE – 1950 CE Queen Victoria Figure · United Kingdom 1819 CE – 1901 CE World War I Conflict · Europe 1914 CE – 1918 CE Thimlich Ohinga Landmark · Africa 1400 BCE – 1900 CE

Image credits7 pictures from Wikimedia Commons

Easter Islandkallerna · CC BY-SA 4.0
Christ the Redeemer (statue)Arne Müseler · CC BY-SA 3.0 de
Flag of the United States (DDD-F-416E specifications)Vector file created by Dbenbenn, Zscout370, Jacobolus, Indolences, and Technion. · Public domain
ParícutinKarla Yannín Alcázar Quintero (photographer) · CC BY 2.0
Flag of PanamaZscout370 et al. · Public domain
Mapa de la Guerra del Chaco esAnibalcesar, vector: MacedonianBoy · CC BY-SA 4.0
Washington National CathedralDuane Lempke · CC0