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May 21

Cities around the world keep their histories on dates. Here is what happened on May 21 across the 1 editorial events Pyflo has so far catalogued for this date.

1 event 1 century 1 country
1786

Père-Lachaise Cemetery

founded 1804 under Napoleon I on the western slope of the Ménilmontant-Belleville plateau — is the main Paris cemetery, one of the most-visited cemeteries in the world (approximately 3.5 million annual visitors), and the burial site of an unusually concentrated collection of…

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 →