Cities around the world keep their histories on dates. Here is what happened on June 17 across the 2 editorial events Pyflo has so far catalogued for this date.
at 64°08' N — only 2° south of the Arctic Circle (the Circle runs through Iceland's northernmost island, Grímsey). Norse settler Ingólfur Arnarson founded the original homestead at Reykjavík in 874 CE — by tradition the first permanent Norse settlement in Iceland; the name…
by wider Margrave Karl Wilhelm of Baden-Durlach (1679-1738) as wider planned baroque residence-city.
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 →