24 March on the map of history

7 events the records the map draws date to 24 March, from 1891 to 1999. Each one opens the map on that very day.

The map on 1899-03-24: New borders for Argentina, Chile
  1. 1891

    New borders for British East Africa (UK)

    Border record (CShapes 2.0)

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  2. 1899

    New borders for Argentina, Chile

    Border record (CShapes 2.0)

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  3. 1922

    New borders for Peru, Colombia

    Border record (CShapes 2.0)

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  4. 1944

    The Ardeatine caves — 335 prisoners are shot, ten for each German killed by a partisan bomb the day before

    War record · World War II

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  5. 1945

    Operation Varsity — the largest airborne operation ever flown to one place on one day, across the Rhine

    War record · World War II

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  6. 1999

    Operation Allied Force

    War record · Yugoslav Wars · 1999-03-24 – 1999-06-10

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  7. 1999

    The deportation of Kosovo Albanians

    War record · Yugoslav Wars · 1999-03-24 – 1999-06-10

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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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