Cities around the world keep their histories on dates. Here is what happened on April 18 across the 2 editorial events Pyflo has so far catalogued for this date.
the same year as US independence; the city remained tiny under Spanish and Mexican rule. The 1848-1855 California Gold Rush transformed San Francisco from 1,000 people to 36,000 in two years — the California gold-rush boom drew immigrants from China (the foundation of…
Bandung was developed by the Dutch as a planned hill-resort city starting in 1810 when the Dutch governor-general decided to make Bandung the future colonial capital of the Dutch East Indies (this plan was never fully implemented but drove decades of investment).
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 →