28 October on the map of history

7 events the records the map draws date to 28 October, from 1914 to 1948. Each one opens the map on that very day.

The map on 1920-10-28: New borders for Soviet Russia (RSFSR), Romania
  1. 1914

    Battle of Penang — the raider Emden sinks a Russian cruiser and a French destroyer inside a neutral harbour approach

    War record · World War I

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  2. 1918

    Battle of Sharqat — the last battle in Mesopotamia, fought two days before the armistice

    War record · World War I · 1918-10-28 – 1918-10-30

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  3. 1918

    The Aster Revolution — Hungary breaks with Austria and takes itself out of the war

    War record · World War I · 1918-10-28 – 1918-10-31

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  4. 1920

    New borders for Soviet Russia (RSFSR), Romania

    Border record (CShapes 2.0)

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  5. 1940

    The Greco-Italian War — the invader is thrown back into Albania in three weeks

    War record · World War II · 1940-10-28 – 1941-04-23

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  6. 1944

    New borders for Kingdom of Hungary, Czechoslovakia

    Border record (CShapes 2.0)

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  7. 1948

    Operation Hiram — the upper Galilee

    War record · Arab–Israeli Wars · 1948-10-28 – 1948-10-31

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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).

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