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- 1540
- The Spanish Empire seizes Alboran from the Ottoman Empire.
- 1777
- Santa Catarina Island is returned by Spain to Portugal after the Treaty of San Ildefonso.
- 1927
- Pakil is separated from Pangil in the Philippines to become a separate municipality again.
- 1958
- Authority over Christmas Island is transferred by the United Kingdom from Singapore to Australia.
- 1964
- Tōkaidō Shinkansen, the world's first high-speed rail line, begins service, connecting the cities of Tokyo and Osaka.
- 2019
- The Alaska Marine Highway System ferry connecting Prince Rupert, British Columbia and Ketchikan, Alaska ends.
This is a selection of establishments and disestablishments on October 1, based on OpenHistoricalMap data, that automatically appears on the OpenHistoricalMap page on October 1 of each year. This list highlights important changes in the world, as well as more mundane events that demonstrate the project's ambitious tendency toward micromapping history.
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We appreciate your help in curating these events from OpenHistoricalMap data. Items should be based on fully qualified start_date=* and end_date=* tags, plus any other metadata tagged on features in OpenHistoricalMap. To the extent possible, the list should feature a wide range of years and include events from different continents.