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Flag of Lesotho
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Polity Africa

Sotho

Attested 1783 CE – 1815 CE

Bantu ethnic group

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How these dates were made

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

The atlas draws the world at 3 moments in time, not continuously. This bar runs from the first snapshot in which Sotho appears to the last, so both edges are floors — the earliest and latest years it is attested, not a founding and a dissolution.

1783 CE 3 snapshots 1815 CE
1783 CE1800 CE1815 CE

Elsewhere in Africa 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 · Africa

Taï National Park

3000 BCE – still standing

Polity · Africa

Angola

Attested 1815 CE – 2026 CE

Conflict · Africa

Merina Unification of Madagascar

1787 CE – 1828 CE

Trade route · Africa

Atlantic Middle Passage

1600 CE – 1850 CE

Landmark · Africa

Rwenzori Mountains

3000 BCE – still standing

Polity · Africa

Sierra Leone

Attested 1815 CE – 2026 CE

Conflict · Africa

Fulani Jihad / Sokoto Caliphate

1804 CE – 1808 CE

Landmark · Africa

Serengeti National Park

3000 BCE – still standing

Dated moments inside this span

Events the timeline places between 1783 CE and 1815 CE.

1801 CE First Barbary War 1804 CE Fulani Jihad / Sokoto Caliphate 1815 CE Mfecane (The Crushing) 1785 CE Northwest Indian War 1788 CE Russo–Swedish War (1788–1790) 1788 CE Sydney

And in the rest of the world

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

Butrint Landmark · Europe 800 BCE – 1800 CE Canada Polity · Americas Founded 1815 CE · attested to 2026 CE Spanish Treasure Fleet Trade route · Europe 1566 CE – 1790 CE Hawaiian Unification Wars Conflict · Americas 1782 CE – 1810 CE Benjamin Franklin Figure · Boston / Philadelphia / Paris 1706 CE – 1790 CE Ragusa (Dubrovnik) Landmark · Europe 700 CE – 1808 CE
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