7 May on the map of history
6 events the records the map draws date to 7 May, from 1915 to 1952. Each one opens the map on that very day.
- 1915
The sinking of the Lusitania — 1,198 die off the Irish coast, 128 of them American
War record · World War I
Open the map on this day → - 1918
- 1918
The Treaty of Bucharest — Romania is forced out of the war and gives up the Dobruja and its oil
War record · World War I
Open the map on this day → - 1941
South Shanxi — the Nationalist armies in the Zhongtiao mountains are destroyed and the front reaches the Yellow River
War record · World War II · 1941-05-07 – 1941-05-27
Open the map on this day → - 1945
The unconditional surrender is signed at Reims at 02:41, to take effect on the eighth
War record · World War II
Open the map on this day → - 1952
Koje-do prisoner-of-war camp uprising
War record · Korean War · 1952-05-07 – 1952-06-10
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).