Wikipedia
The opening of the article, and a way into the rest of it without leaving the site.
South Carolina on Wikipedia.
From Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
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 South Carolina 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 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.
Landmark · Americas
Panama Viejo
1519 CE – 1671 CE
Polity · Americas
Vice-Royalty of Brazil
Attested 1715 CE – 1800 CEConflict · Americas
Beaver Wars (Iroquois Wars)
1609 CE – 1701 CETrade route · Americas
Spanish Treasure Fleet Return
1566 CE – 1790 CELandmark · Americas
Cathedral of Caracas
1665 CE – still standing
Polity · Americas
Haiti
Founded 1715 CE · attested to 2026 CE
Conflict · Americas
Arauco War
1550 CE – 1662 CETrade route · Americas
Atlantic Return (Sugar & Tobacco)
1600 CE – 1850 CEDated moments inside this span
Events the timeline places between 1650 CE and 1715 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
- Flag of South CarolinaDesign by South Carolina General Assembly, SVG by Steve Hall · Public domain
- Panamá ViejoMelpanama · CC BY 3.0
- Colonial BrazilFloppa Historico · CC BY-SA 4.0
- Flag of Haiti(colours and size changes of the now deleted versions) Madden, Vzb83, Denelson83, Chanhei… · Public domain
- Arauco WarTomas Lopez compuesto por el mapa manuscrito de Poncho Chileno, Madrid 1777 · Public domain
