Cities around the world keep their histories on dates. Here is what happened on January 2 across the 4 editorial events Pyflo has so far catalogued for this date.
was the wider Christian kingdom that began the Spanish Reconquista against the Umayyad Caliphate. King Pelayo's 722 Battle of Covadonga (in the Picos de Europa Mountains 100 km east of Gijón) is traditionally considered the first Christian victory of the Reconquista — Pelayo and…
was born in Rimini on January 20, 1920 to a traveling-salesman father and middle-class mother.
is one of the most-recognized world heritage sites — significant Moorish palace-fortress complex built primarily by the Nasrid dynasty (the last Moorish-Islamic kingdom in Iberia, ruling 1238-1492); the significant Nasrid Palaces include the Court of the Lions (with the…
The January 2, 2016 Pathankot terror attack was a Jaish-e-Mohammed (Pakistani-Islamist) attack on the Pathankot Air Force Station.
Drawn from the Pyflo Atlas — an interactive timeline of 1,601 editorial events reaching back to 2100 BCE, each pin a deep link into a city's full story. Watch history play out on the map →