1569
The Union of Lublin
was signed on July 1, 1569 at wider Lublin Castle.
On this day
July 1
Cities around the world keep their histories on dates. Here is what happened on July 1 across the 3 editorial events Pyflo has so far catalogued for this date.
3 events
3 centuries
2 countries
1898
Hong Kong's foundational role in Chinese-Western commercial-cultural interaction
spans nearly 200 years — the historic British colonization of Hong Kong began with the 1842 Treaty of Nanking following the First Opium War, which ceded Hong Kong Island to British control.
1997
Hong Kong
Hong Kong was ceded to Britain in three stages — Hong Kong Island (1842, Treaty of Nanking, after the First Opium War), the Kowloon Peninsula (1860, after the Second Opium War),, the New Territories (1898, on a 99-year lease) —, and reverted to Chinese sovereignty on July 1,…
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 →