Cities around the world keep their histories on dates. Here is what happened on December 25 across the 2 editorial events Pyflo has so far catalogued for this date.
Durban was historically Port Natal (named by Portuguese explorer Vasco da Gama, who saw the coast on December 25, 1497 (Christmas Day) — "Natal" means "birth" or "Christmas" in Portuguese); the city was renamed Durban in 1835 for Sir Benjamin D'Urban, the British Governor of the…
Christmas Day, hence the name Natal (Portuguese for Christmas) — by Portuguese colonists at the strategically critical river mouth where the Potengi meets the Atlantic.
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 →