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.
Partition of India, Death Toll, Low Estimate200000.000000
Partition of India, Events
Standing
Concerns Death Toll, Low Estimate
Currently States 200000.000000
Estimates vary widely; most scholars accept approximately 1 million deaths as the commonly cited figure within this range.
Source Partition of India (Wikipedia)
Partition of India, Death Toll, High Estimate2000000.000000
Partition of India, Events
Standing
Concerns Death Toll, High Estimate
Currently States 2000000.000000
Estimates vary widely; most scholars accept approximately 1 million deaths as the commonly cited figure within this range.
Source Partition of India (Wikipedia)
Plague of Justinian, Death Toll, Low Estimate15000000.000000
Plague of Justinian, Events
Standing
Concerns Death Toll, Low Estimate
Currently States 15000000.000000
Estimate is for the entire First Plague Pandemic, 541 to 767, of which the Plague of Justinian in 541 was the first and most severe outbreak; it is not a single outbreak figure.
Source Plague of Justinian, Wikipedia
Plague of Justinian, Death Toll, High Estimate100000000.000000
Plague of Justinian, Events
Standing
Concerns Death Toll, High Estimate
Currently States 100000000.000000
Estimate is for the entire First Plague Pandemic, 541 to 767, of which the Plague of Justinian in 541 was the first and most severe outbreak; it is not a single outbreak figure.
Source Plague of Justinian, Wikipedia
Pontiac, Birth Year1714
Pontiac, Historical Figures
Standing
Concerns Birth Year
Currently States 1714
The infobox gives circa 1714/1720; the article body says he was probably born between 1712 and 1725. 1714 recorded here as the earliest commonly cited year.
Source Wikipedia: Pontiac (Odawa leader)
Pontiac, BirthplaceGreat Lakes region, possibly an Odawa village on the Detroit or Maumee River
Pontiac, Historical Figures
Standing
Concerns Birthplace
Currently States Great Lakes region, possibly an Odawa village on the Detroit or Maumee River
Exact birthplace unattested; the source offers this only as a possibility.
Source Wikipedia: Pontiac (Odawa leader)
Portugal, Start Year1179
Portugal, Polities
Standing
Concerns Start Year
Currently States 1179
The lead names three real, distinct dates for Portuguese statehood: county status under the Kingdom of Leon in 868, formal kingdom status in 1179, and the country becoming a republic in 1910 (with democracy restored in 1976 after the 1926 dictatorship). Recorded here as 1179, the date the source gives for Portugal formally becoming a kingdom, with 868 and 1910 named as the earlier and later alternates rather than silently dropped.
Source Wikipedia: Portugal
Prehistory, Start Year-3300000
Prehistory, Eras
Standing
Concerns Start Year
Currently States -3300000
Conventionally dated to the earliest known stone tools, the Lomekwian industry at Lomekwi, Kenya. Some historians instead begin prehistory with the appearance of the genus Homo around 2.5 million years ago, or with anatomically modern humans around 300,000 years ago. There is no single agreed starting point, only a shared sense that prehistory has no fixed beginning.
Source Encyclopaedia Britannica
Prehistory, End Year-3200
Prehistory, Eras
Standing
Concerns End Year
Currently States -3200
Conventionally marked by the earliest Sumerian cuneiform writing in Mesopotamia, around 3200 BCE. Because writing was invented independently at different times in different regions, in Egypt around 3100 BCE, in China around 1200 BCE, and in Mesoamerica later still, prehistory does not end everywhere at once. The boundary is regional, not global.
Source Encyclopaedia Britannica
Ram Khamhaeng, Birth NameRam (speculative)
Ram Khamhaeng, Historical Figures
Standing
Concerns Birth Name
Currently States Ram (speculative)
The Royal Institute of Thailand speculates his birth name may have been Ram, derived from the Hindu god-king Rama; not confirmed by primary inscriptional evidence.
Source Wikipedia: Ram Khamhaeng
Ram Khamhaeng, Death Year1298
Ram Khamhaeng, Historical Figures
Standing
Concerns Death Year
Currently States 1298
Chinese History of Yuan records 1298; historian George Coedes considers shortly before 1318 more probable; exact year unresolved.
Source Wikipedia: Ram Khamhaeng
Ramanuja, Birth Year1077
Ramanuja, Historical Figures
Standing
Concerns Birth Year
Currently States 1077
Traditional Sri Vaishnava hagiography places his life 1017-1137; modern scholarship from 11th-12th century temple records and regional literature outside that tradition suggests c. 1077-1157 instead.
Source Wikipedia: Ramanuja
Ramanuja, Death Year1157
Ramanuja, Historical Figures
Standing
Concerns Death Year
Currently States 1157
Traditional Sri Vaishnava hagiography places his life 1017-1137; modern scholarship from 11th-12th century temple records and regional literature outside that tradition suggests c. 1077-1157 instead.
Source Wikipedia: Ramanuja
Ramesses II, Birth Year-1303
Ramesses II, Historical Figures
Standing
Concerns Birth Year
Currently States -1303
Egyptian New Kingdom chronology is reconstructed from king lists and astronomical references rather than a continuous calendar; regnal dates are conventionally cited to within a decade.
Source The Cambridge Ancient History
Ramesses II, Death Year-1213
Ramesses II, Historical Figures
Standing
Concerns Death Year
Currently States -1213
See birth-year note on New Kingdom chronology.
Source The Cambridge Ancient History
Rani Lakshmibai, Birth Year1828
Rani Lakshmibai, Historical Figures
Standing
Concerns Birth Year
Currently States 1828
British-era sources give 1827; traditional Indian sources give 1835; historians Tapti Roy and Rudrangshu Mukherjee place her birth between 1828 and 1830 based on chronological evidence.
Source Wikipedia: Rani Lakshmibai
Rani Padmini of Chittor, RoleLegendary Queen of Mewar (historicity disputed)
Rani Padmini of Chittor, Historical Figures
Standing
Concerns Role
Currently States Legendary Queen of Mewar (historicity disputed)
Historical existence disputed; earliest literary mention (Jayasi's Padmavat, c. 1540) postdates the 1303 siege of Chittor by more than two centuries, and most modern historians consider the story to have little grounding in contemporary sources.
Source Wikipedia: Rani Padmini of Chittor
Rani Padmini of Chittor, Role (category)Monarch / Royalty
Rani Padmini of Chittor, Historical Figures
Standing
Concerns Role (category)
Currently States Monarch / Royalty
Category derived from this entry's own free-text property; the source property's own status (debated) carries whatever is unresolved, this derived category fact makes no further claim beyond bucketing that same text.
Source Wikipedia: Rani Padmini of Chittor
Republic of Amalfi, Government type (class)Republic
Republic of Amalfi, Polities
Standing
Concerns Government type (class)
Currently States Republic
Sources name it both the Duchy of Amalfi, an elective duchy, and the Republic of Amalfi; classified here as republic, the name under which it is commonly grouped among the medieval Italian maritime republics.
Source Wikipedia: Republic of Amalfi
Republic of Venice, Start Year697
Republic of Venice, Polities
Standing
Concerns Start Year
Currently States 697
The source's own words: "Founded, according to tradition, in 697"; the traditional founding date is recorded here as the standard attributed year, not as settled fact.
Source Wikipedia: Republic of Venice