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Flag of the British Virgin Islands
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Polity Americas

Virgin Islands (UK)

Attested 1715 CE

British Overseas Territory in the Caribbean

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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 Virgin Islands (UK) appears to the last, so both edges are floors — the earliest and latest years it is attested, not a founding and a dissolution.

1715 CE

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.

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Landmark · Americas

Grand Canyon

3000 BCE – still standing

Polity · Americas

Vice-Royalty of New Spain

Attested 1530 CE – 1815 CE

Trade route · Americas

Spanish Treasure Fleet Return

1566 CE – 1790 CE

Conflict · Americas

Comanche Wars

1706 CE – 1875 CE

Landmark · Americas

Mammoth Cave

3000 BCE – still standing

Polity · Americas

Vice-Royalty of Peru

Attested 1650 CE – 1815 CE

Trade route · Americas

Atlantic Return (Sugar & Tobacco)

1600 CE – 1850 CE

Landmark · Americas

Hawaii Volcanoes

3000 BCE – still standing

And in the rest of the world

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

Great Barrier Reef Landmark · Oceania 3000 BCE – still standing Tibet Polity · South Asia 1000 CE – 1960 CE Kanem–Bornu Wars Conflict · Africa 700 CE – 1846 CE Tea Horse Road Trade route · East Asia 700 CE – 1950 CE Louis XIV Figure · France 1638 CE – 1715 CE Plitvice Lakes Landmark · Europe 3000 BCE – still standing
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