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Scotland

Founded 843 CE · attested to 1600 CE

Country within the United Kingdom

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How these dates were made

Real dates from Wikidata, checked against the atlas.

These are real dates: Scotland's founding is recorded in Wikidata, and accepted here only because they agree with the centuries the atlas independently drew it in. No dissolution is recorded, so the closing year below is still the last century the atlas drew — not when it ended. The atlas itself draws the world at 8 moments in time, not continuously. The strip below covers those snapshots — 1000 CE to 1600 CE — which sits inside the fuller span above.

1000 CE 8 snapshots · 130 years unattested at the widest 1600 CE
1000 CE1100 CE1200 CE1279 CE1300 CE1400 CE1530 CE1600 CE

Elsewhere in Europe 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 · Europe

Mausoleum at Halicarnassus

350 BCE – 1404 CE

Polity · Europe

Ottoman Empire

1299 CE – 1922 CE

Conflict · Europe

Byzantine–Arab Wars

629 CE – 1180 CE

Trade route · Europe

Varangian Trade Route

800 CE – 1100 CE

Landmark · Europe

Rila Monastery

927 CE – still standing

Polity · Europe

Holy Roman Empire

962 CE – 1806 CE

Conflict · Europe

Viking Invasions

793 CE – 1066 CE

Trade route · Europe

Viking North Sea Trade

800 CE – 1100 CE

Dated moments inside this span

Events the timeline places between 843 CE and 1600 CE.

859 CE Novgorod 860 CE Wars of the Kievan Rus' 899 CE Magyar Invasions of Europe 927 CE Rila Monastery 942 CE St. Bavo's Cathedral 955 CE Battle of Lechfeld

And in the rest of the world

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

Machu Picchu Landmark · Americas 1450 CE – still standing Tibet Polity · South Asia 1000 CE – 1960 CE Mesoamerican Trade Network Trade route · Americas 1200 BCE – 1521 CE Sengoku Period (Japanese Warring States) Conflict · East Asia 1467 CE – 1615 CE Al-Khwarizmi Figure · Baghdad 780 CE – 850 CE Lighthouse of Alexandria Landmark · Middle East 280 BCE – 1323 CE
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