Cities around the world keep their histories on dates. Here is what happened on April 23 across the 1 editorial events Pyflo has so far catalogued for this date.
Chennai was founded in 1639 when Francis Day of the British East India Company purchased a 3-mile coastal strip from the local Vijayanagara-vassal governor — the small fishing village around it was called Madraspatnam, the European trading post became Fort St George, and the…
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 →