18 January on the map of history

2 events the records the map draws date to 18 January, from 1945 to 1974. Each one opens the map on that very day.

The map on 1945-01-18: The death marches — the camps in the east are evacuated on foot in winter, and 100,000 to 250,000 prisoners die
  1. 1945

    The death marches — the camps in the east are evacuated on foot in winter, and 100,000 to 250,000 prisoners die

    War record · World War II · 1945-01-18 – 1945-05-08

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  2. 1974

    The Sinai disengagement agreement

    War record · Arab–Israeli Wars

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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).

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