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The Great Lisbon Earthquake Destroys Lisbon
Lisbon, Portugal
CONFIRMED90% CONFIDENCE270.9 years agoThe source[1] dates it firmly — the earthquake "hit the Iberian Peninsula and Northwest Africa on the morning of Saturday, 1 November, Feast of All Saints, at around 09:40 local time". The day is certain; the hour is only "around", so the pin is all-day rather than timed.A magnitude 7.7-or-greater earthquake struck off Cape St. Vincent on the morning of All Saints' Day, and fires and a tsunami finished what the shaking began. Between 30,000 and 40,000 died in Lisbon alone.0.65Transforming London’s Broadgate: 100 Liverpool Street
CONFIRMED84% CONFIDENCE6.1 years agoMultiple independent sources (Hopkins[2] Architects’ own project page and New London Architecture) give the completion as September 2020, after this 2019 video was filmed mid-construction. Happened as dated, per the source[1]: "an outstanding new benchmark for low-carbon commercial office redevelopment".British Land completed a stripped-back rebuild of an aging 1980s Broadgate office block into 100 Liverpool Street, a low-carbon commercial tower beside Liverpool Street station.0.64Christ Church Cathedral Reinstatement Targets 2027 Completion
ChristChurch Cathedral, Cathedral Square, Christchurch, New Zealand
ESTIMATED57% CONFIDENCEin 1.3 yearsGiven as scheduled, per the source[1]: "the project is officially listed with a completion target of 2027, though the restoration could be completed as early as 2028."Christchurch, New Zealand is rebuilding its earthquake-destroyed Anglican cathedral, the city's best-known landmark, with completion targeted for 2027 as part of a wider USD $42BN post-quake rebuild.$42B0.62One London Tower Targets 2033 Completion
Undershaft, City of London, United Kingdom
ESTIMATED69% CONFIDENCEin 7.3 yearsA target, per the source[1]: the tower "will begin construction in 2028 for a completion in 2033," after receiving "full planning consent from the City of London[3] Corporation in December 2025."One London, the tower formerly known as 1 Undershaft that will match the Shard as Western Europe's tallest building, finally won full planning consent after nearly a decade of delays.0.62The 1906 Earthquake and Fire Destroy San Francisco
CONFIRMED90% CONFIDENCE120.4 years agoThe USGS[1][3] catalogue gives the origin time for event official19060418131226300_12 as 1906-04-18T13:12:26Z, which the narrative states as "05:12 am Pacific Standard Time on Wednesday, April 18, 1906".A magnitude 7.9 rupture of the San Andreas Fault shook Northern California at 5:12 a.m. local time, and the fires that followed burned for days. More than 3,000 died and over 80% of the city was destroyed.0.62BT Tower Goes Live as a Cold War Microwave Relay Hub
CONFIRMED83% CONFIDENCE61.0 years agoHappened as dated, per the source[1]: "a single telephone call changed the history of London and the United Kingdom forever."London's cylindrical BT Tower (originally the GPO Tower) began carrying live microwave telecommunications traffic in 1965, its concrete core partly designed to survive a nuclear blast.0.62The Brooklyn Tower Finally Receives Its Certificate of Occupancy
CONFIRMED75% CONFIDENCE1.4 years agoHappened as dated, per the source[1]: "the building did not receive a permanent Certificate of Occupancy until April 25, 2025."The Brooklyn Tower at 9 DeKalb Avenue, the borough's first supertall skyscraper, received its certificate of occupancy, issued as an extension of its temporary permit, years after residents began moving in.$750M0.62Eyjafjallajokull's Ash Cloud Closes European Airspace
CONFIRMED88% CONFIDENCE16.4 years agoThe closure is dated as a span: the second phase from 14 April "created an ash cloud that led to the closure of most of the European IFR airspace from 15 until 20 April 2010". The pin covers 15-20 April, so its exclusive end is 21 April.[1]The volcano's second eruptive phase threw ash into the jet stream and about 20 countries shut their airspace to commercial jets. Roughly 10 million travellers were stranded in the worst air-travel disruption since the Second World War.0.62One Park Drive Opens in London's Wood Wharf
Herzog & de Meuron's 205-metre One Park Drive tower, the centrepiece of Canary Wharf's new Wood Wharf district on reclaimed Thames-side land, opened to its first residents in London.0.62San Francisco's Millennium Tower Fix Declared a Success
301 Mission Street, San Francisco, California, USA
CONFIRMED89% CONFIDENCE3.3 years agoHappened as dated, per the source[1]: the pile-driving and load-shifting project "was finished earlier this month," in an article published June 21, 2023.Engineers completed a $100M underpinning project meant to arrest the sinking and tilt of San Francisco's Millennium Tower.$100M0.61John Snow Takes the Handle off the Broad Street Pump
Broadwick Street, Soho, London W1F, United Kingdom
CONFIRMED85% CONFIDENCE172.0 years agoThe parish's Board of Guardians acted on Snow's request and the pump handle was removed on 8 September 1854, the date the contemporary record carries.[1]With more than 500 dead in ten days around Golden Square, John Snow persuaded the parish to remove the handle from the Broad Street water pump. He had mapped the deaths house by house and found them clustered on one well - the argument that cholera travelled in water, not air.0.61Krakatoa Explodes and Is Heard 4,800 km Away
Krakatoa, Sunda Strait, Indonesia
CONFIRMED90% CONFIDENCE143.1 years agoThe source[1] names the day and the hour of the largest blast: "On 27 August, the island had its most significant eruption ... the third explosion of that day, that occurred at 10:02 a.m., remains the loudest-known sound in history."The third explosion of 27 August 1883 destroyed over 70% of the island and remains the loudest sound in recorded history, audible in Perth and near Mauritius. The eruption and its tsunamis killed at least 36,417 people.0.61
