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Claims this atlas currently marks as unsettled or as tested and found false. A debated fact is one scholars hold competing positions on; a debunked one has been checked against the record and found not to hold. Both are kept in view rather than quietly smoothed over, with the reasoning that put each one where it stands.

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1959 Tibetan uprising, Death Toll, Low Estimate10000.000000

1959 Tibetan uprising, Events

Standing

Concerns Death Toll, Low Estimate

Currently States 10000.000000

Sources give widely differing estimates; 10,000 is the PRIO estimate and the exact number is disputed

Source Wikipedia: 1959 Tibetan uprising

Æthelred the Unready, Birth Year966

Æthelred the Unready, Historical Figures

Standing

Concerns Birth Year

Currently States 966

Sources place Æthelred birth between 966 and 969; the earlier year is recorded here pending a more precise attestation.

Source Wikipedia

Æthelstan, Birth Year894

Æthelstan, Historical Figures

Standing

Concerns Birth Year

Currently States 894

Sources give Æthelstan birth as circa 894; no exact year is attested.

Source Wikipedia

Ahmad ibn Majid, Birth Year1432

Ahmad ibn Majid, Historical Figures

Standing

Concerns Birth Year

Currently States 1432

The source gives only an approximate circa date (c. 1432); no exact birth year is attested anywhere in the article.

Source Wikipedia: Ahmad ibn Majid

Ahmad ibn Majid, Death Year1500

Ahmad ibn Majid, Historical Figures

Standing

Concerns Death Year

Currently States 1500

Exact death date unknown; the source places his death around 1500, reasoning from his estimated age (about seventy-seven) around the time of Vasco da Gama's 1498 voyage, after which he is not attested as still navigating.

Source Wikipedia: Ahmad ibn Majid

Ahmad Shah Durrani, Birth Year1722

Ahmad Shah Durrani, Historical Figures

Standing

Concerns Birth Year

Currently States 1722

Wikipedia infobox and lead give a range, 1720 to 1722, with no single confirmed year; 1722 recorded here as a circa estimate within that range.

Source Wikipedia: Ahmad Shah Durrani

Ahmad Shah Durrani, BirthplaceHerat (Sadozai Sultanate of Herat) or Multan (Mughal Empire), disputed among sources

Ahmad Shah Durrani, Historical Figures

Standing

Concerns Birthplace

Currently States Herat (Sadozai Sultanate of Herat) or Multan (Mughal Empire), disputed among sources

Wikipedia infobox names two competing candidate birthplaces with no consensus resolution.

Source Wikipedia: Ahmad Shah Durrani

Alexios I Komnenos, Birth Year1057

Alexios I Komnenos, Historical Figures

Standing

Concerns Birth Year

Currently States 1057

Sources give Alexios I birth as circa 1057; no exact year is attested.

Source Wikipedia

Alfonso I of Kongo, Death Year1543

Alfonso I of Kongo, Historical Figures

Standing

Concerns Death Year

Currently States 1543

Sources give his death as either late 1542 or early 1543; exact year uncertain.

Source Wikipedia: Alfonso I of Kongo

Algerian War of Independence, Death Toll, Low Estimate400000.000000

Algerian War of Independence, Events

Standing

Concerns Death Toll, Low Estimate

Currently States 400000.000000

Estimates of Algerian dead vary enormously by source and by whether later Algerian government figures are used, from roughly 400,000 to as many as 1.5 million; French military and settler dead are separately put at several tens of thousands.

Source Wikipedia: Algerian War

Algerian War of Independence, Death Toll, High Estimate1500000.000000

Algerian War of Independence, Events

Standing

Concerns Death Toll, High Estimate

Currently States 1500000.000000

Estimates of Algerian dead vary enormously by source and by whether later Algerian government figures are used, from roughly 400,000 to as many as 1.5 million; French military and settler dead are separately put at several tens of thousands.

Source Wikipedia: Algerian War

Ancient Egypt, Start Year-3100

Ancient Egypt, Civilizations

Standing

Concerns Start Year

Currently States -3100

The unification of Upper and Lower Egypt under Narmer, or Menes in later tradition, is conventionally dated around 3100 BCE, but estimates in the scholarly literature range from roughly 3150 to 3000 BCE depending on the chronology used.

Source The Cambridge Ancient History

Ancient Greece, Start Year-800

Ancient Greece, Civilizations

Standing

Concerns Start Year

Currently States -800

As with the era it opens, historians vary between 800, 776 and 750 BCE for the start of the Archaic Greek world; none of these is a single dated event.

Source Encyclopaedia Britannica

Archimedes, Birth Year-287

Archimedes, Historical Figures

Standing

Concerns Birth Year

Currently States -287

Circa; the cited source gives only c. 287 BC, since few details of his life are independently attested.

Source Wikipedia: Archimedes

Archimedes, Death Year-212

Archimedes, Historical Figures

Standing

Concerns Death Year

Currently States -212

Circa; the cited source gives only c. 212 BC, since few details of his life are independently attested.

Source Wikipedia: Archimedes

Armenian Genocide, Death Toll, Low Estimate664000.000000

Armenian Genocide, Events

Standing

Concerns Death Toll, Low Estimate

Currently States 664000.000000

Wikipedia's infobox gives a wider range of 600,000 to 1.5 million; this row uses the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum figure.

Source Armenia, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Armenian Genocide, Death Toll, High Estimate1200000.000000

Armenian Genocide, Events

Standing

Concerns Death Toll, High Estimate

Currently States 1200000.000000

Wikipedia's infobox gives a wider range of 600,000 to 1.5 million; this row uses the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum figure.

Source Armenia, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Atahualpa, Birth Year1502

Atahualpa, Historical Figures

Standing

Concerns Birth Year

Currently States 1502

Circa 1502 per Atahualpa's own deathbed declaration, a claim historians dispute; recorded here as the infobox's own approximate value, not as settled fact.

Source Wikipedia: Atahualpa

Attila the Hun, Birth Year406

Attila the Hun, Historical Figures

Standing

Concerns Birth Year

Currently States 406

No contemporary source records Attila's birth; circa 406 is the modern scholarly estimate from his approximate age at death.

Source The Cambridge Medieval History

Baibars, Birth Year1223

Baibars, Historical Figures

Standing

Concerns Birth Year

Currently States 1223

Sources differ: 1223 or 1228 given as birth year, sometimes with 19 July as the day.