8 March on the map of history
7 events the records the map draws date to 8 March, from 1892 to 1969. Each one opens the map on that very day.
- 1892
- 1916
Battle of Dujaila — the last attempt to relieve Kut fails eleven kilometres from the town
War record · World War I
Open the map on this day → - 1917
The February Revolution — the Tsar abdicates
War record · World War I · 1917-03-08 – 1917-03-16
Open the map on this day → - 1944
Battles of Imphal and Kohima
War record · World War II · 1944-03-08 – 1944-07-03
Open the map on this day → - 1957
The withdrawal is completed and the United Nations Emergency Force takes over Gaza and Sharm el-Sheikh
War record · Arab–Israeli Wars
Open the map on this day → - 1965
Two Marine battalions land at Đà Nẵng — the first American ground combat troops in Vietnam
War record · Vietnam War
Open the map on this day → - 1969
The War of Attrition along the canal
War record · Arab–Israeli Wars · 1969-03-08 – 1970-08-07
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).