1 January on the map of history
19 events the records the map draws date to 1 January, from 1888 to 1993. Each one opens the map on that very day.
- 1942
Twenty-six governments sign the Declaration by United Nations and the alliance has a name
War record · World War II
Open the map on this day → - 1943
The Bengal famine of 1943 — between two and three million people die of hunger and disease in a province at war
War record · World War II · 1943-01-01 – 1944-12-31
Open the map on this day → - 1945
Operation Nordwind — the last German offensive in the west, into Alsace on New Year’s Day
War record · World War II · 1945-01-01 – 1945-01-25
Open the map on this day →
Dated 1 January
The border record dates these to 1 January. For some of them that is a year, not a day, so they are listed apart and never as the day’s headline.
- 1888
- 1889
- 1891
- 1894
- 1895
- 1899
The map begins drawing Northern Nigeria (UK), Southern Nigeria (UK); the map stops drawing Oil Rivers Protectorate (UK)
Border record (CShapes 2.0)
Open the map on this day → - 1901
The map begins drawing Australia; the map stops drawing Western Australia, South Australia, Queensland and 3 more
Border record (CShapes 2.0)
Open the map on this day → - 1905
The map begins drawing French Sudan (France), Niger (France)
Border record (CShapes 2.0)
Open the map on this day → - 1913
The map begins drawing Tibet, Albania; new borders for Republic of China, Ottoman Empire
Border record (CShapes 2.0)
Open the map on this day → - 1914
The map begins drawing Nigeria (UK); the map stops drawing Northern Nigeria (UK), Southern Nigeria (UK)
Border record (CShapes 2.0)
Open the map on this day → - 1946
The map begins drawing Syria; the map stops drawing Syria (France)
Border record (CShapes 2.0)
Open the map on this day → - 1956
The map begins drawing Sudan (incl. South Sudan), Tunisia; the map stops drawing Anglo-Egyptian Sudan, Tunisia (France), British Togoland
Border record (CShapes 2.0)
Open the map on this day → - 1960
The map begins drawing Cameroon; the map stops drawing French Cameroons (France)
Border record (CShapes 2.0)
Open the map on this day → - 1963
- 1984
The map begins drawing Brunei; the map stops drawing Brunei (UK)
Border record (CShapes 2.0)
Open the map on this day → - 1993
The map begins drawing Czech Republic, Slovakia; the map stops drawing Czechoslovakia
Border record (CShapes 2.0)
Open the map on this day →
What this page states
A border event is what the border record states about its own outlines, under the names IntMap’s map writes on that day: «the map begins drawing», «stops drawing», «new borders for». It is computed by the map’s own code, comparing the day with the day before.
A name the record does not date is not listed: the map’s table of era names is written in years, so a renaming that falls on another country’s border day is left out.
OpenHistoricalMap, which the map draws from 1689 to 1885, is not included: its dates carry no precision, and most of its first-of-the-month dates are months or years written as days.
The war record covers only the wars IntMap documents day by day (World War I, World War II, Korean War, Vietnam War, Arab–Israeli Wars, Yugoslav Wars).
Sources
CShapes 2.0 (Schvitz et al. 2022, icr.ethz.ch/data/cshapes) · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
Territory and dates: the documented record, compiled in scripts/wars/. Country outlines: CShapes 2.0 (Schvitz et al. 2022, icr.ethz.ch/data/cshapes).