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- 1535
- New Spain becomes a viceroyalty in the Spanish Empire.
- 1709
- Chihuahua, Mexico is founded.
- 1897
- King Gojong is coronated as the first emperor of the Korean Empire.
- 1913
- A car repair shop opens in Washington D.C.
- 1939
- Quezon City is created by carving barangays from multiple towns near Manila, Philippines.
- 1965
- Roselands Shopping Centre opens in Sydney, New South Wales.
- 1968
- Equatorial Guinea gains independence from Spain.
This is a selection of establishments and disestablishments on October 12, based on OpenHistoricalMap data, that automatically appears on the OpenHistoricalMap page on October 12 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.