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Welcome to OpenHistoricalMap! OpenHistoricalMap is an interactive map of the world throughout history, created by people like you and dedicated to the public domain. Learn More. Start Mapping. OpenHistoricalMap collaboratively stores and displays map data throughout the history of the world.
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- 17th Century
- 16th Century
- 15th Century
2020s
1. September 30, 2022 - Russia annexes four regions from southeast Ukraine. This action is only partly recognized, and Russia did not control all the land.This action is largely seen as a war crime and the land is still recognized as Ukrainian by most countries. 2. September 17, 2022 - The Republic of Kazakhstan officially changed the name of its capital from Nur-Sultan back to Astana. 3. May 31, 2022 - The Republic of Turkeyofficially changes its name to the Republic of Türkiye. 4. August 15...
2010s
1. February 2019 - The Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia officially changes its name to the Republic of North Macedonia. 2. April 19, 2018 - The Kingdom of Swaziland changed its name to the Kingdom of Eswatini. 3. February 20, 2014 - Russia annexes Crimea from UkraineWhich causes the Crimea Crisis, and The Russo-Ukrainian War begins. This action is only partly recognized. 4. July 9, 2011 - The Republic of South Sudan becomes independent from Sudan.
2000s
1. February 17, 2008 - The Republic of Kosovo declares independence from Serbia. Its independence is only partly recognized. 2. June 8, 2006 - Serbia and Montenegro splits into the Republic of Serbia and the Republic of Montenegro. 3. May 20, 2002 - East Timor becomes independent from Indonesia.
1990s
1. December 31, 1999 - The United States gives the Panama Canal Zone to Panama. 2. December 20, 1999 - Macau is given from Portugal to the People's Republic of China. 3. July 1, 1997 - Hong Kong is given from the United Kingdom to the People's Republic of China. 4. May 21, 1997 - Zaire officially reverts its name back to the Democratic Republic of the Congo. 5. May 24, 1993 - Eritreabecomes independent. 6. January 1, 1993 - Czechoslovakia breaks up into The Czech Republic and Slovakia. 7. 199...
1980s
1. September 21, 1981 - Belize becomes independent from the United Kingdom.
1970s
1. December 1971 - Bangladesh (formerly East Pakistan) becomes independent from Pakistan after nine months of Bangladesh Liberation War. 2. December 1971 - The United Arab Emiratesforms.
1880's
1. 15 November 1884 - Berlin Conference
1870s
1. January 18, 1871 - The German Empire is formed as one nation from a multitude of smaller German States.
1860s
1. October 18, 1867 - The United States of America buys Alaska from Russia. 2. March 15, 1867 - Austro-Hungarian Compromise. Austrian empire becomes Austro-Hungary. 3. March 17, 1861 - The Kingdom of Sardinia-Piedmont becomes the Kingdom of Italy.
1600s
1. 1603 - Tokugawa Iesayu establishes the Tokugawa Shogunatein Japan. 2. 1607 - The Virginia Colonyis founded.
1500s.
1. 1502 - The Golden Hordeis disestablished. 2. 1501 - The Uzbek Khanateis disestablished.
1450s
1. May 29th, 1453 - The Byzantine Empire falls to the Ottomans.
A world map is a map of most or all of the surface of Earth. World maps, because of their scale, must deal with the problem of projection. Maps rendered in two dimensions by necessity distort the display of the three-dimensional surface of the Earth. While this is true of any map, these distortions reach extremes in a world map.
The following is a list of notable extant historical maps . Early world maps. Babylonian Map of the World (flat-earth diagram on a clay tablet, c. 600 BC) Tabula Rogeriana (1154) Psalter world map (1260) Tabula Peutingeriana (1265, medieval map of the Roman Empire, believed to be based on 4th century source material)
Interactive historical map of the world, historical timeline, 20th century history. Learn about historical events, track border changes, visualize unions.
Early world maps. The earliest known world maps date to classical antiquity, the oldest examples of the 6th to 5th centuries BCE still based on the flat Earth paradigm. World maps assuming a spherical Earth first appear in the Hellenistic period. The developments of Greek geography during this time, notably by Eratosthenes and Posidonius ...
B. Babylonian Map of the World. Beatus map. Bianco world map. Book of Roads and Kingdoms. Borgia map. Bünting Clover Leaf Map.
