011,756 events · 184 nations
Politics & Power
3100 BCE – 2026
- Earliest
- c. 3100 BCE — Memphis founded as royal capital · Egypt
- Most recent
- to 2026 — Ongoing cross-strait dispute · Taiwan
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The archive, read across nations
Themes
10 tags, 4,740 events, 184 nations — the same record turned ninety degrees.
Every event in the archive carries one thematic tag. Inside a nation’s chronicle that tag does one small thing — it tints a single point on the timeline. Gathered across every nation at once, the same tags become collections: each page below holds every event the corpus records under that heading, in order, with the sources it was verified against and a link back to the chronicle it came from.
Nothing here is rewritten or re-interpreted for the collection. An event reads the same on its theme page as it does on its nation’s own.
10 collections · 4,740 sourced events · 184 nations · 3,607 references · 3,600,000 BCE – 2026
The collections
02899 events · 179 nations
War & Rupture
1274 BCE – 2026
- Earliest
- c. 1274 BCE — Battle of Kadesh · Egypt
- Most recent
- 2 March 2026 — Shipping through the Strait of Hormuz collapses · Iran
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03359 events · 138 nations
Colonisation
518 BCE – 1975
- Earliest
- c. 518 BCE — Achaemenid Persia annexes the Indus lands · Pakistan
- Most recent
- 1975 — Decolonisation of the African empire · Portugal
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04330 events · 163 nations
Formation
100,000 BCE – 2012
- Earliest
- Deep prehistory — The Cradle of Humankind · South Africa
- Most recent
- August 2012 — Federal Government of Somalia established · Somalia
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05307 events · 135 nations
Economy & Trade
5000 BCE – 2026
- Earliest
- c. 7,000–10,000 years ago — Independent invention of agriculture at Kuk · Papua New Guinea
- Most recent
- present — Contested status and an oil prospect · Falkland Islands
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06291 events · 174 nations
Independence
938 – 2021
- Earliest
- 938 CE — Battle of Bach Dang and independence · Vietnam
- Most recent
- 12 December 2021 — Third referendum and Kanak boycott · New Caledonia
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07267 events · 130 nations
Culture & Ideas
1,800,000 BCE – 2026
- Earliest
- c. 1.8 million years ago — Homo habilis and Oldowan tools at Olduvai · Tanzania
- Most recent
- 2026 — The medinas of the sultanates inscribed · Comoros
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08205 events · 110 nations
Peoples & Migration
3,600,000 BCE – 2025
- Earliest
- c. 3.6 million years ago — Hominins leave footprints at Laetoli · Tanzania
- Most recent
- 22 April – 22 May 2025 — The census counts a shrinking territory · New Caledonia
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09205 events · 112 nations
Religion
3000 BCE – 2014
- Earliest
- c. 3300–2500 BCE — The Hal Saflieni Hypogeum · Malta
- Most recent
- 2014 — Sharia penal code phased in · Brunei
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10121 events · 85 nations
Catastrophe
2500 BCE – 2025
- Earliest
- c. 2500 BCE — The temple builders disappear · Malta
- Most recent
- 16 September 2025 — UN Commission of Inquiry finds genocide · Palestine
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