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 Sakhalin (RU) 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 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.
Landmark · East Asia
Yakushima
3000 BCE – still standingPolity · East Asia
Manchu Empire
Attested 1650 CE – 1914 CETrade route · East Asia
Tea Horse Road
700 CE – 1950 CEConflict · East Asia
Dutch–Aceh War
1873 CE – 1914 CELandmark · East Asia
Great Wall of China
700 BCE – still standingPolity · East Asia
Russia
Founded 1263 CE · attested to 2026 CELandmark · East Asia
Ha Long Bay
3000 BCE – still standingPolity · East Asia
Philippines
Founded 1492 CE · attested to 2026 CEDated moments inside this span
Events the timeline places between 1914 CE and 1914 CE.
And in the rest of the world
Records running through the same years, on the other side of the map.
Image credits7 pictures from Wikimedia Commons
- YakushimaNASA · Public domain
- Flag of China (1889–1912)Original: zh:清朝政府 Vector: Sodacan · Public domain
- Tea Horse RoadRedgeographics · CC BY-SA 4.0
- Great Wall of ChinaSeverin.stalder · CC BY-SA 3.0
- Flag of RussiaPeter the Great · Public domain
- Hạ Long BayTaewangkorea · CC BY-SA 4.0
- Flag of the PhilippinesThe design was taken from [1] and the colors were also taken from a Government website CO… · Public domain