How these dates were made
Why this bar's edges are floors, not a founding and a fall.
The atlas draws the world at 2 moments in time, not continuously. This bar runs from the first snapshot in which Scottalnd 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 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.
Landmark · Europe
Lübeck
1200 CE – 1669 CEPolity · Europe
Geneva
Attested 1700 CE – 1783 CETrade route · Europe
Hanseatic League
1200 CE – 1669 CEConflict · Europe
Great Turkish War
1683 CE – 1699 CELandmark · Europe
Portuguese Synagogue (Esnoga)
1675 CE – still standingPolity · Europe
Ottoman Empire
1299 CE – 1922 CETrade route · Europe
Hanseatic League – Southern Branch
1200 CE – 1669 CEConflict · Europe
Nine Years' War (War of the Grand Alliance)
1688 CE – 1697 CEDated moments inside this span
Events the timeline places between 1650 CE and 1700 CE.
And in the rest of the world
Records running through the same years, on the other side of the map.
Image credits5 pictures from Wikimedia Commons
- LübeckOleg Dejan · CC BY 3.0
- Genevafr:Utilisateur:Stéphane_Pecorini · CC BY-SA 2.0 fr
- Hanseatic LeagueDroysen/Andrée · CC BY-SA 3.0
- Great Turkish WarDavidDijkgraaf · CC0
- Flag of the Ottoman Empire (1844–1922)User:Orwellianist · Public domain