All places
Every place on the map, continent by continent and oldest first.
Africa
- Memphis and Giza c. 2600 BCE
- Amarna c. 1350 BCE
- Tutankhamun c. 1332–1323 BCE · discovered 1922
- Karnak in Thebes 1550–1070 BCE
- Kingdom of Kush 747–656 BCE
- Nok culture c. 500 BCE
- Carthage c. 300 BCE
- Pharos of Alexandria 331–30 BCE
- Hannibal's Journey 247–183 BCE
- Meroë c. 200 CE
- Aksum c. 350 CE
- Djenné-Djenno 250 BCE – 1100 CE
- Faras Cathedral 548–1400 CE
- Ghana Empire c. 1000 CE
- Lalibela c. 1180–1270 CE
- Fatimid Cairo 969–1400 CE
- Great Zimbabwe c. 1300 CE
- Ife 1000–1500 CE
- Ibn Battuta’s travels 1325–1355
- Al-Qarawiyyin in Fez 859–1400 CE
- Kilwa Kisiwani c. 1300 - 1500 CE
- Mali and Timbuktu c. 1350 CE
- Benin City c. 1400–1897 CE
- Songhai Empire 1460–1591 CE
- Kingdom of Kongo 1390–1710 CE
- Castles of Gondar 1636–1790 CE
- Yan Taru 1804-1903 CE
- Battle of Adwa 1889-1896 CE
- Asante Empire 1896–1925 CE
- Ghana's Independence 1957 CE
- OAU in Addis Ababa 1963 CE
Antarctica
- Shackleton and Endurance 1914–1917
Asia
- Göbekli Tepe c. 9500 BCE
- Jericho c. 8000 BCE
- Çatalhöyük c. 7000 BCE
- Ur c. 2900 BCE
- Mohenjo-Daro c. 2500 BCE
- Hattusa c. 1350 BCE
- Shang Dynasty c. 1200 BCE
- Phoenicians c. 900 BCE
- Nineveh c. 700 BCE
- Babylon c. 600 BCE
- Pazyryk c. 500 BCE
- Persepolis c. 500 BCE
- Maurya Empire c. 250 BCE
- Han Chang'an c. 100 BCE
- Petra c. 100 BCE – 100 CE
- Gupta Empire c. 400 CE
- The Silk Roads About 600–800
- Gyeongju c. 700 CE
- Tang Chang'an c. 750 CE
- Baghdad c. 800 CE
- Srivijaya c. 800 CE
- Constantinople c. 1000 CE
- Heian-kyo c. 1000 CE
- Chola Empire c. 1000 CE
- The Third Crusade 1189–1192
- Angkor c. 1200 CE
- Song Hangzhou c. 1200 CE
- Karakorum c. 1250 CE
- Zheng He’s fleets 1405–1433
- Meiji Japan 1868-1912 CE
- Krakatau 1883 1883
Europe
- The Melting Ice c. 12,000–9500 BCE
- Aareavaara c. 8700 BCE
- Land Uplift c. 7500–6500 BCE
- The Bäckaskog Woman c. 7000–6500 BCE
- Skateholm c. 5000 BCE
- The First Farmers c. 3800 BCE
- Falbygden Graves c. 3500–2800 BCE
- The Kalvträsk Ski c. 3200 BCE
- Alvastra Pile Dwelling c. 3100 BCE
- Pitted Ware Culture c. 3300–2300 BCE
- Battle Axe Culture c. 2800 BCE
- Nämforsen Rock Art c. 4000–1800 BCE
- Minoan Crete c. 1700 BCE
- The Kivik Grave from c. 1400 BCE
- The Amber Trade c. 1500–1100 BCE
- Tanum Rock Art c. 1200 BCE
- Håga Mound c. 1000 BCE
- Northern Bronze Age c. 900 BCE
- Gold and Horses c. 800 BCE
- Red-Earth Iron c. 700–400 BCE
- The Scythians c. 500 BCE
- Athens c. 430 BCE
- Pompeii 79 CE 79 CE
- The Roman Empire c. 115 CE
- Roman Finds c. 100–300 CE
- Uppåkra c. 450 CE
- Gold Bracteates c. 475 CE
- Sandby Borg c. 480 CE
- The Fimbulwinter c. 536–550 CE
- Helgö c. 300–800 CE
- Valsgärde c. 550–1100 CE
- Vendel Boat Graves c. 550–750 CE
- Aachen c. 800 CE
- Gamla Uppsala c. 550–1050 CE
- Gotland Picture Stones c. 700–900
- Irish Monasteries c. 800 CE
- Birka c. 750–970 CE
- The Viking Farm c. 850
- Viking Ships c. 850 CE
- Seeress of Klinta c. 950 CE
- The Thralls c. 800–1050
- The Varangians c. 800–1050 CE
- al-Andalus c. 950 CE
- Erik Segersäll about 980-995 CE
- Battle of Svolder c. 1000 CE
- Olof Skötkonung c. 1000 CE
- The Runestones c. 1000 CE
- Succession Wars 1022-1066 CE
- Inge the Elder about 1080-1100 CE
- Sápmi Before Borders c. 800–1400 CE
- Sigtuna c. 1100-1187 CE
- Alvastra and Vreta c. 1120-1190 CE
- The Ledung c. 1100-1190 CE
- Saint Erik c. 1150-1160 CE
- Archbishop of Uppsala 1164 CE
- Näs on Visingsö c. 1150-1190 CE
- Novgorod c. 1200 CE
- Battle of Gestilren 1208–1210 CE
- Churches & Monasteries c. 1200–1290 CE
- Gotland Trade c. 1200–1290 CE
- Provincial Laws c. 1220-1290 CE
- Birger Jarl c. 1250 CE
- Brothers of 1275 1275 CE
- Statute of Alsnö c. 1280 CE
- The Eriksgata c. 1250–1350 CE
- The Gutasaga c. 1200–1290 CE
- Visby City Wall c. 1250–1300 CE
- Finnish Crusades c. 1249-1293 CE
- Nyköping Banquet 1317-1318 CE
- Medieval Hospitals c. 1320 CE
- Statute of Skara January 1335 CE
- Saint Birgitta 1303-1373 CE
- Bergslagen Iron c. 1300–1390 CE
- Magnus Eriksson's Law c. 1350 CE
- The Black Death c. 1349–1351 CE
- The Bocksten Man c. 1350–1370 CE
- Visby 1361 1361 CE
- King Albrekt Deposed 1389 CE
- The Victual Brothers c. 1390–1398 CE
- Queen Margaret 1397 CE
- The Kalmar Union 1397-1434 CE
- Vadstena Abbey 1430-1495 CE
- Engelbrekt Rebellion 1434-1436 CE
- Karl Knutsson 1448–1470 CE
- Hanseatic Stockholm 1400-1500 CE
- Battle of Brunkeberg 10 October 1471
- Arrival of the Roma 1512–1637 CE
- The Brask Note 1517–1520 CE
- Magellan and Elcano 1519–1522
- Stockholm Bloodbath 1520 CE
- Flight in Dalarna Winter 1520–1521 CE
- Gustav Vasa 1521-1560 CE
- The Reformation 1527-1593 CE
- The Sun-Dog Painting 1535 CE
- The Gustav Vasa Bible 1541 CE
- The Dacke War 1542-1543 CE
- The Hereditary Crown 1544 CE
- Sala Silver Mine c. 1500–1600 CE
- Erik XIV 1568–1569 CE
- Karin Månsdotter 1567–1568 CE
- Nordic 7 Years' War 1563–1570 CE
- Johan III & Katarina about 1580 CE
- Battle of Stångebro 1598–1600 CE
- Succession of 1604 1604 CE
- Jokkmokk Market 1605 CE
- The Warship Vasa 1628 CE
- The Forest Finns c. 1580–1650 CE
- Battle of Lützen 1632 CE
- Gustav II Adolf 1630-1632 CE
- Oxenstierna's Reform 1634 CE
- The Mail Riders 1636 CE
- Falun Copper Mine c. 1600–1700 CE
- Fire-Setting at Falun c. 1650 CE
- Queen Christina 1632–1654 CE
- Copper Plate Money 1644–1661 CE
- Karl X Gustav 1658 CE
- Vasa Diving Bell 1663–1665 CE
- The Witch Trials 1668–1676 CE
- Battle of Lund 1676 CE
- Scania Integration 1658-1683 CE
- Karl XI's State 1680-1697 CE
- The Allotment System 1682-1700 CE
- The Church Law 1686-1700 CE
- Karlskrona Shipyard 1680-1700 CE
- Palace Fire 1697 7 May 1697 CE
- The Devil's Bible c. 1229–1697 CE
- Karl XII 1697–1718
- Battle of Poltava 1709 CE
- Christopher Polhem c. 1690–1750 CE
- Lasse i Gatan 1710–1721 CE
- Shot at Fredriksten 1718 CE
- Carolean Death March New Year 1718–1719
- Ulrika Eleonora 1718–1720
- Hats and Caps c. 1738–1765
- The Götheborg 1745 CE
- The Soldier's Croft c. 1745
- Eva Ekeblad 1748 CE
- Bergslagen Ironworks c. 1700-1800 CE
- Carl Linnaeus c. 1750 CE
- Crofts and Farms c. 1700-1800 CE
- Königsberg's Bridges c. 1745–1755 CE
- Port of Gdańsk c. 1745–1755 CE
- Readers of Reval c. 1745–1755 CE
- Saint Petersburg c. 1745–1755 CE
- Stockholm 1750 1720-1772 CE
- Sweden-Finland 1721-1809 CE
- Sápmi in the 1700s c. 1700-1800 CE
- The Sound Toll c. 1745–1755 CE
- Timber Grader of Riga c. 1747–1754 CE
- Wharf of Bergen c. 1745–1755 CE
- Court Coup of 1756 1756 CE
- Age of Liberty Riksdag 1719–1772
- East India Company c. 1760
- The Coffee Bans 1756 and later bans
- Women's Work c. 1760
- Freedom of the Press 1766-1772 CE
- Bellman's Stockholm c. 1775 CE
- Smallpox Care c. 1750-1801 CE
- The Jewish Community 1770s–1790s CE
- Västgöta Peddlers c. 1780 CE
- Gustav III 1771–1792 CE
- Gustavian Culture 1772–1792 CE
- The Herring Boom 1747–1809 CE
- The French Revolution 1789–1799 CE
- Svindersvik c. 1790 CE
- The Russo-Swedish War 1788-1790 CE
- The Masquerade Ball 1792 CE
- Stockholm's Elephant 1804–1806 CE
- The Finnish War 1808–1809 CE
- Coup of 1809 1809 CE
- Lasse-Maja 1800–1838 CE
- Union with Norway 1810-1844 CE
- The Tornedalen Border 1809 onward
- Karl XIV Johan 1818 CE
- The Göta Canal 1810-1832 CE
- The Folk School 1842-1900 CE
- Prison Reform 1840 1840-1847 CE
- Laga Skifte 1827-1880 CE
- Fredrika Bremer 1858 CE
- The Conventicle Act 1858 CE
- The Railways 1856-1900 CE
- Alfred Nobel 1833-1896 CE
- Two-Chamber Riksdag 1865–1867 CE
- The Hunger Years 1867-1869 CE
- Child Labour c. 1850–1890 CE
- The Sawmills c. 1850–1900 CE
- The Sundsvall Strike May 1879 CE
- Emigration to America c. 1850–1930 CE
- Popular Movements 1850-1900 CE
- The Statare c. 1885 CE
- National Romanticism c. 1895 CE
- Swedish Inventions 1876–1914 CE
- The Andrée Expedition 1897–1930 CE
- The Malmbanan 1888–1902 CE
- Union Dissolution 1905 CE
- Titanic 1912 April 1912
- Courtyard Crisis 1914 CE
- The Hunger Riots 1917-1921 CE
- Votes for Women 1902-1921 CE
- Vasaloppet 1922 CE
- State Race Biology 1922–1975 CE
- The Nomad Schools 1913–1950 CE
- Shots at Ådalen 1931 CE
- Folkhemmet 1928-1938 CE
- Saltsjöbaden Accord 1938 CE
- Finnish War Children 1939–1945 CE
- World War II 1939-1945 CE
- Raoul Wallenberg 1944–1945 CE
- The White Buses 1945 CE
- The Catalina Affair 13–16 June 1952 CE
- Gustaf VI Adolf 1950-1973 CE
- Postwar Welfare 1945–1970 CE
- The Riksbunker c. 1955–1965 CE
- The Berlin Wall 1961–1989
- The Housekeeper & Spy 1960–1963 CE
- Labor Migration 1950–1970 CE
- The Great Mine Strike 1969–1970 CE
- The Million Programme 1965-1974 CE
- Norrmalmstorg Drama 23–28 August 1973 CE
- Everyday Equality 1950–1980 CE
- Torekov Compromise 1971–1974 CE
- Ban on Smacking 1979 CE
- Nuclear Referendum 1980 CE
- Succession of 1980 1978-1980 CE
- The Cold War 1950-1981 CE
- Chernobyl 1986 1986
- Palme Assassination 1986 CE
- Refugee Immigration 1970-1995 CE
- The Sámi Parliament 1993 CE
- Joining the EU 1995 CE
North America
- Clovis c. 11,000 BCE
- Poverty Point c. 1300 BCE
- Olmec c. 900 BCE
- Hopewell c. 200 CE
- Teotihuacan c. 400 CE
- Dorset Culture c. 500 BCE–1500 CE
- Maya Tikal c. 700 CE
- Vikings in the West About 860–1021 CE
- Chaco Canyon c. 1050 CE
- Before the Colonies c. 850-1607 CE
- Cahokia c. 1100 CE
- Thule c. 900–1600 CE
- Mesa Verde c. 1250 CE
- Haudenosaunee c. 1200 CE-present
- Tenochtitlan c. 1500 CE
- Jamestown & Powhatan 1607–1646
- New Sweden 1638–1655 CE
- Ohio Valley War 1754–1763
- Boston Tea Party 16 December 1773
- American Revolution 1763–1783
- The US Constitution 1783–1791
- Treaty of New York 1790
- Saint Barthélemy 1784-1878 CE
- Haida c. 1800 CE
- The Louisiana Purchase 1803
- The War of 1812 1812–1815
- Cotton Kingdom 1815-1848 CE
- Trail of Tears 1830–1839
- Westward Expansion 1815–1846
- The Union in Crisis 1848-1861 CE
- American Civil War 1861-1865 CE
- Gettysburg 1–3 July 1863
- The End of Slavery, 1865 1865
- Reconstruction 1865–1877
- Rails Across the Plains 1862–1890
- The Wright Brothers Take Flight 1903
- Ellis Island and Industry 1880–1924
- America Enters World War I 1917–1918
- The Great Migration 1915–1940
- Votes for Women 1848–1920
- The Harlem Renaissance 1925
- The Wall Street Crash 1929
- The Great Depression 1929–1941
- Pearl Harbor 1941
- World War II at Home 1941–1945
- Brown v. Board of Education 1954
- The Polio Vaccine Breakthrough 1955
- The Interstate Highway Act, 1956 1956
- The Cold War and the Space Race 1947–1969
- The Civil Rights Movement 1954–1968
- Apollo 11 July 1969
- The Digital Age 1969–2007
Oceania
- Budj Bim c. 3000 BCE
- Lapita c. 1000 BCE
- Rapa Nui c. 1200 CE
- Tu'i Tonga c. 1200 CE
- Māori c. 1300 CE
- Nan Madol c. 1200 - 1600 CE
- Hawaii c. 1200–1810 CE
- Mills of Aotearoa 1840-1870 CE
South America
- Caral c. 2600 BCE
- Nazca c. 200 CE
- Moche c. 400 CE
- Tiwanaku c. 700 CE
- Wari c. 800 CE
- Marajó c. 900 CE
- Chan Chan c. 1400 CE
- Machu Picchu 15th century–1911
- Guaraní c. 1500 CE
- Inca Empire c. 1500 CE
- Mapuche c. 1600 CE
- South American Freedom 1810-1860 CE
- Kon-Tiki 1947