Mapping historical events using Observable Plot

side-project

I’ve been playing with a little side project to scrape historical events from Wikipedia “On This Day” pages and plot them on a map. I wanted to be able to think about simultaneous events in human history that I wouldn’t expect to be happening at the same time.

I also used it as an opportunity to play with Observable Framework.

Below is a still image of the map. Here’s the interactive version, along with some details about its making.

A map of the world showing a limited set of historical events, with one event highlighted. The highlighted event has the description 'Mughal Empire annexes Bengal after defeating the Bengal Sultanate at the Battle of Rajmahal.'