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November 1

Cities around the world keep their histories on dates. Here is what happened on November 1 across the 5 editorial events Pyflo has so far catalogued for this date.

5 events 4 centuries 3 countries
1488

Lisbon as the foundational capital of the Portuguese Age of Discovery (15th-16th centuries)

Lisbon Portugal

is one of the most significant chapters in global maritime-commercial-cultural history — Portuguese explorers sailing from Lisbon initiated the wider European Age of Discovery through the foundational expeditions including: Bartolomeu Dias (the first European to round the Cape…

1955

Bhilai Steel Plant was a 1955-1959 Soviet-Indian joint construction project

Bhilai India

significant 1955 inter-governmental agreement between Nehru and Bulganin (significant Soviet Premier visit to India); significant Soviet construction help and significant subsequent Soviet engineering training of significant Indian workforce; significant construction with…

1984

Iguazu Falls

received UNESCO World Heritage in 1984 (Argentine side) and 1986 (Brazilian side) — wider 275 individual waterfalls stretching wider 2.7 km across wider basaltic plateau edge at wider Iguazu River wider before wider Paraná River confluence.

2000

The Chhattisgarh state creation (November 1, 2000)

Raipur India

was one of three new Indian states created simultaneously through the wider 2000 Indian state-reorganization (alongside Jharkhand carved from Bihar and Uttarakhand carved from Uttar Pradesh) — the state was created to recognize the wider Chhattisgarhi cultural region with…

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 →