History Atlas
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.
296 statements marked Debated.
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.