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The OpenHistoricalMap portal features a selection of establishments and disestablishments on each day of the year, based on OpenHistoricalMap data. This list highlights important changes in the world, as well as more mundane events that demonstrate the project's ambitious tendency toward micromapping history.

November 23

1248

Seville surrenders to Ferdinand III of Castile and Leon.

1640

Pisco is founded by the Spanish in Peru.

1762

Under the Treaty of Fontainebleau, the Kingdom of France secretly cedes Louisiana to Spain.

1878

The Western District is established in Belize.

1909

Governor José Vicente de Olmos School is established in Córdoba, Argentina.

1933

Kfar Haroeh is established in Mandatory Palestine.

1941

At 2 o’clock in the morning, the parts of Georgia within the Central Time Zone are moved to the Eastern Time Zone.

1943

During World War II, the Hotel Kaiserhof is destroyed in an Allied air raid of Berlin.

1982

In China, the State Council establishes Yangling District as a county-level district in Yangling town, Shaanxi province.

1995

Dave Severns and Andy Pease begin an annual outdoor Christmas display set to music in Sunnyvale, California.

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