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Explore 2,657 events across the United States

Murders and assassinations, mysteries, disasters, battles, protests, science and culture. Filter by theme and year; follow the sources behind each record.

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PlaceLayers › Historic moments

Historic moments, on the ground where they happened

A place is not only what was built on it. 4659 entries so far, from 1920 to the present, half of them events the whole world knows and half of them the sort of thing only people from the region remember. Every entry says where it came from.

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Target for the full layer is 530 entries: 200 United States, 100 Europe, 100 Asia, 100 Africa, 30 Australia and Oceania, balanced half world-historic and half local. The remainder is being built from Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons, so every entry arrives with coordinates, a date, a citation and a licensed photograph rather than an assertion.

Seeded by the editors. This entry was compiled by us from public reference works and is labelled as such, not presented as a reader’s contribution. Sources are listed on the entry. If you know more, or we have it wrong, tell us — corrections are published.

What this layer is not. It is a record of events, not a statement about any property, and an entry near an address says nothing about the condition of that address. Methodology and limits.