26 August on the map of history
5 events the records the map draws date to 26 August, from 1905 to 1943. Each one opens the map on that very day.
- 1905
The map begins drawing Norway; new borders for Sweden
Border record (CShapes 2.0)
Open the map on this day → - 1914
- 1914
Le Cateau — the British stand and fight to break contact during the retreat
War record · World War I
Open the map on this day → - 1918
Battle of Baku — the Ottoman army reaches the Caspian oil, six weeks before its own armistice
War record · World War I · 1918-08-26 – 1918-09-14
Open the map on this day → - 1943
The Battle of the Dnieper — two million men force a river a kilometre wide on a 1,400 km front
War record · World War II · 1943-08-26 – 1943-12-23
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).