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 South Russia 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
Plitvice Lakes
3000 BCE – still standingPolity · Europe
Ottoman Empire
1299 CE – 1922 CEConflict · Europe
Ukrainian War of Independence
1917 CE – 1921 CELandmark · Europe
Giant's Causeway
3000 BCE – still standingPolity · Europe
Sweden
Founded 900 CE · attested to 2026 CEConflict · Europe
Estonian War of Independence
1918 CE – 1920 CELandmark · Europe
Danube Delta
3000 BCE – still standingPolity · Europe
Denmark
Founded 800 CE · attested to 2026 CEDated moments inside this span
Events the timeline places between 1920 CE and 1920 CE.
And in the rest of the world
Records running through the same years, on the other side of the map.
Image credits8 pictures from Wikimedia Commons
- Plitvice Lakes National ParkZysko serhii · CC BY-SA 4.0
- Flag of the Ottoman Empire (1844–1922)User:Orwellianist · Public domain
- Ukrainian War of IndependenceГайдук В.А., Ляшенко В.Г., Мозговой В.И., Навка И.П. Пер. англ. текстов И.Н. Яндолы; подб… · Public domain
- Giant's Causewaycode poet on flickr. · CC BY-SA 2.0
- Flag of SwedenJon Harald Søby and others. · Public domain
- Estonian War of IndependenceVabadussõda.jpg : Mmh ( talk ) derivative work: Reimgild ( talk ) · CC BY-SA 3.0
- Danube DeltaEuropean Space Agency · Attribution
- Flag of DenmarkMadden and others · Public domain