15 May on the map of history
5 events the records the map draws date to 15 May, from 1902 to 1972. Each one opens the map on that very day.
- 1902
New borders for Anglo-Egyptian Sudan, Ethiopian Empire, British East Africa (UK) and 1 more
Border record (CShapes 2.0)
Open the map on this day → - 1916
The Strafexpedition at Asiago — Austria-Hungary attacks off the Trentino plateaus and is pushed back
War record · World War I · 1916-05-15 – 1916-07-27
Open the map on this day → - 1917
The Strait of Otranto — the largest surface action of the Adriatic, fought over the drifter barrage
War record · World War I
Open the map on this day → - 1943
The Sutjeska — 20,000 Partisans and their wounded break out of an encirclement seven times their size
War record · World War II · 1943-05-15 – 1943-06-16
Open the map on this day → - 1972
The map stops drawing Ryukyu Islands (USA); new borders for Japan
Border record (CShapes 2.0)
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).