The world in 1960

Why this year has a page

The historical-basemaps atlas drew a world sheet for this year.

Names on the map

As the map labels them, largest first by the area of the outline drawn. Areas are of the drawn outline, rounded, and approximate. The record column says which record draws the outline; a Wikidata item is given where the record links one.

What changed since 1955

Names counted are those the records date to the year or the day (CShapes, OpenHistoricalMap, Cliopatria). Outlines filled from the nearest historical-basemaps sheet are counted only when both years are years that sheet was drawn for — otherwise the change would be the switch between two sheets, not a change in the world. Names are compared as written, so a polity a record names differently in the two years (Carthaginian Empire, then Carthage) is in both lists.

← Earlier: 1955Later: 1961 →

Events dated to 1960

Every record of IntMap’s one index of dated events whose date falls in this year: what the border record (CShapes 2.0) states about its own outlines, IntMap’s war record, and the world events Wikidata dates — each with its source and the precision of its date.

1. 1960

   The map begins drawing Cameroon; the map stops drawing French Cameroons (France)

   the border record (CShapes 2.0) · 1960-01-01

   On this day →
2. 1960

   The map begins drawing Togo; the map stops drawing French Togoland (France)

   the border record (CShapes 2.0) · 1960-04-27

   On this day →
3. 1960

   The map begins drawing Mali; the map stops drawing French Sudan (France)

   the border record (CShapes 2.0) · 1960-06-20

   On this day →
4. 1960

   The map begins drawing Senegal

   the border record (CShapes 2.0) · 1960-06-21

   On this day →
5. 1960

   The map begins drawing Madagascar; the map stops drawing Madagascar (France)

   the border record (CShapes 2.0) · 1960-06-26

   On this day →
6. 1960

   The map begins drawing Democratic Republic of the Congo; the map stops drawing Belgian Congo (Belgium)

   the border record (CShapes 2.0) · 1960-06-30

   On this day →
7. 1960

   The map begins drawing Somalia; the map stops drawing Italian Somaliland, British Somaliland (UK)

   the border record (CShapes 2.0) · 1960-07-01

   On this day →
8. 1960

   The map begins drawing Dahomey; the map stops drawing Dahomey (France)

   the border record (CShapes 2.0) · 1960-08-01

   On this day →
9. 1960

   The map begins drawing Niger; the map stops drawing Niger (France)

   the border record (CShapes 2.0) · 1960-08-03

   On this day →
10. 1960

    The map begins drawing Upper Volta; the map stops drawing Upper Volta (France)

    the border record (CShapes 2.0) · 1960-08-05

    On this day →
11. 1960

    The map begins drawing Cote D'Ivoire; the map stops drawing Cote d'Ivoire (France)

    the border record (CShapes 2.0) · 1960-08-07

    On this day →
12. 1960

    The map begins drawing Chad; the map stops drawing Chad (France)

    the border record (CShapes 2.0) · 1960-08-11

    On this day →
13. 1960

    The map begins drawing Central African Republic; the map stops drawing Ubangi-Shari (France)

    the border record (CShapes 2.0) · 1960-08-13

    On this day →
14. 1960

    The map begins drawing Congo; the map stops drawing French Congo (France)

    the border record (CShapes 2.0) · 1960-08-15

    On this day →
15. 1960

    The map begins drawing Gabon; the map stops drawing Gabon (France)

    the border record (CShapes 2.0) · 1960-08-17

    On this day →
16. 1960

    The map begins drawing Nigeria; the map stops drawing Nigeria (UK)

    the border record (CShapes 2.0) · 1960-10-01

    On this day →
17. 1960

    The map begins drawing Mauritania; the map stops drawing Mauritania (France)

    the border record (CShapes 2.0) · 1960-11-28

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18. 1960

    The National Liberation Front is founded in Tây Ninh province

    IntMap’s war record — Vietnam War · 1960-12-20

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Sources and method

Borders and names: CShapes 2.0 (Schvitz et al. 2022, icr.ethz.ch/data/cshapes) · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 + Cliopatria v0.2.1 (Seshat Global History Databank, github.com/Seshat-Global-History-Databank/cliopatria) · CC BY 4.0 · adapted by IntMap: simplified, BC years made astronomical, and the ground OpenHistoricalMap (1689–1885, and from 1886 where CShapes is silent) and CShapes (1886–2019) state removed on their own dates.

Which years have a page is worked out when the site is built, from three rules applied to the records themselves: every year the historical-basemaps atlas drew a world sheet for; every year whose change from the year before (names the dated records begin or stop drawing) is in the top 5% of all such year-to-year changes since the dated records begin, leaving out the years where one record hands over to another; and every year of a geopolitical, war or revolution event in the dated events index, up to the last year the border records cover (2019).

On each year the map is read on 1 July, the instant the app’s own year links open on. Names are the source’s own, translated where the source or IntMap’s name table has a translation. A name is what a record draws there, not a verdict of history.

World map in 1960 — the map, with the years it stays the same Historical maps by region Countries On this day

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