Cities around the world keep their histories on dates. Here is what happened on January 21 across the 3 editorial events Pyflo has so far catalogued for this date.
The city had been founded as a Roman military camp in 218 BCE by Publius and Gnaeus Cornelius Scipio during the Second Punic War against Carthage, then progressively expanded under subsequent Roman administrations through the 2nd-1st centuries BCE.
was one of the founding figures of the Mexican War of Independence (1810-1821) — the 11-year war that ended approximately 300 years of Spanish colonial rule (1521-1821) and established the independent Mexican state.
founded 1804 as a British penal settlement (Sydney was founded 1788).
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 →