23 March on the map of history

4 events the records the map draws date to 23 March, from 1907 to 1953. Each one opens the map on that very day.

The map on 1907-03-23: New borders for Siam, Cambodia (France)
  1. 1907

    New borders for Siam, Cambodia (France)

    Border record (CShapes 2.0)

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  2. 1918

    The Paris Gun — Paris is shelled from 120 kilometres away for four and a half months

    War record · World War I · 1918-03-23 – 1918-08-09

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  3. 1939

    New borders for Nazi Germany, Lithuania

    Border record (CShapes 2.0)

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  4. 1953

    Battle of Pork Chop Hill

    War record · Korean War · 1953-03-23 – 1953-07-16

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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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