About Everywhere Then

Everywhere Then is a way to start anywhere in history (a year, a date, a person, a place) and see what else was happening around the world at that same moment.

This is a pilot. It covers one decade, the 1910s, in depth: 3,959 events from 1912 to 1919, each with its date, place, a short summary written in our own words, and links to the pages it was checked against. The years were the most crowded of the century: the last years of several empires, a world war, revolutions in China, Mexico and Russia, and a pandemic, but also films, football clubs, poems and scientific papers.

What is here

• A page for each year, with every event month by month and region by region.
• Pages on World War I away from the Western Front: the Middle East, Asia, Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean, and the United States and Canada.
• Two moments in detail: 28 June 1914, the day of the Sarajevo shots, and April 1912, when the Titanic sank.
• The card feed on the home page, which lets you widen the window from one day out to the Big Bang. It needs JavaScript and is a prototype.

How it is made

Events are chosen by how widely known they are today, with a share kept for places outside Europe and North America. Each one is drafted with the help of AI from sources we opened, then checked by a separate checker that did not write it, and every year is audited at random by a reviewer that built nothing. The full method is on the sources and checking page.

Summaries drafted with AI and reviewed by an editor.

What is not here yet

Other decades, pictures, accounts and an app. If you would like to hear when the app launches, leave an email address below; it is optional and used for nothing else.

Contact

Contact: [email protected]