7 August on the map of history
6 events the records the map draws date to 7 August, from 1914 to 1964. Each one opens the map on that very day.
- 1914
Battle of the Frontiers — the French plan of attack fails in a month
War record · World War I · 1914-08-07 – 1914-09-06
Open the map on this day → - 1914
Battle of Mulhouse — the first French attack of the war, into Alsace
War record · World War I · 1914-08-07 – 1914-08-26
Open the map on this day → - 1942
- 1942
Tulagi is taken on the same morning as Guadalcanal — the first American offensive of the war
War record · World War II · 1942-08-07 – 1942-08-09
Open the map on this day → - 1960
The map begins drawing Cote D'Ivoire; the map stops drawing Cote d'Ivoire (France)
Border record (CShapes 2.0)
Open the map on this day → - 1964
The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution gives the President war powers without a declaration of war
War record · Vietnam War
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).