Cities around the world keep their histories on dates. Here is what happened on April 12 across the 3 editorial events Pyflo has so far catalogued for this date.
the Cañari city of Guapondelig (significant 8th-15th centuries), the Inca city of Tomebamba (15th-16th centuries — the second Inca capital after Cuzco, founded by Inca Tupac Yupanqui and significant favored capital of his son Inca Huayna Capac who was born here), and the Spanish…
South Carolina had become the foremost Southern state to formally secede from the United States — wider December 20, 1860 South Carolina Ordinance of Secession declared the state's separation following wider Abraham Lincoln's November 6, 1860 election (Lincoln's wider Republican…
the first human in space — has significant historical connections to Saratov: he studied at the Saratov Industrial Technical School (Industrialny Tekhnikum) from 1951 to 1955 as a teenager training as a metalworker; the technical school building in central Saratov is now a…
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 →