6 August on the map of history
7 events the records the map draws date to 6 August, from 1914 to 1962. Each one opens the map on that very day.
- 1914
The Togoland campaign — three weeks to reach the wireless station at Kamina, the first Allied conquest of the war
War record · World War I · 1914-08-06 – 1914-08-26
Open the map on this day → - 1914
The Kamerun campaign — nineteen months of bush marching before the last German column crosses into neutral Spanish territory
War record · World War I · 1914-08-06 – 1916-03-10
Open the map on this day → - 1915
The Suvla landings — the last attempt to break out of the Gallipoli beachheads
War record · World War I · 1915-08-06 – 1915-08-29
Open the map on this day → - 1915
Lone Pine — four days of hand-to-hand fighting in covered trenches, and seven Victoria Crosses
War record · World War I · 1915-08-06 – 1915-08-10
Open the map on this day → - 1917
Battle of Mărășești — the German drive on Iași is held, and Romania keeps a corner of itself
War record · World War I · 1917-08-06 – 1917-09-03
Open the map on this day → - 1945
- 1962
The map begins drawing Jamaica; the map stops drawing Jamaica (UK)
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).