Cities around the world keep their histories on dates. Here is what happened on September 11 across the 2 editorial events Pyflo has so far catalogued for this date.
Manhattan was the original site of New Amsterdam founded by the Dutch West India Company in 1624; Peter Minuit famously "purchased" the island from the Lenape in 1626 for trade goods later mythologized as "$24 in beads" — the actual transaction was more complex and the Lenape…
Barcelona was founded as a Roman colony — Barcino — around 15 BCE by Augustus; the original Roman walls partly survive in the Barri Gòtic.
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 →