1805
Hans Christian Andersen
(April 2, 1805 - August 4, 1875) was born in Odense to a shoemaker father and washerwoman mother in the working-class Munkemøllestræde house that is now the **H.C.
On this day
April 2
Cities around the world keep their histories on dates. Here is what happened on April 2 across the 2 editorial events Pyflo has so far catalogued for this date.
2 events
2 centuries
2 countries
1991
The June 1991 eruption of Mount Pinatubo
was the second-largest volcanic eruption of the 20th century (after the 1912 Novarupta eruption in Alaska) and the most-watched eruption in scientific history — the volcano had been dormant for approximately 500 years before the 1991 reactivation, and the significant advance…
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 →