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The OpenHistoricalMap portal features a selection of establishments and disestablishments on each day of the year, based on OpenHistoricalMap data. This list highlights important changes in the world, as well as more mundane events that demonstrate the project's ambitious tendency toward micromapping history.
June 1
- 1792
- The Commonwealth of Kentucky is created from the Kentucky District of Virginia.
- 1916
- La Volateria opens in El Prat de Llobregat, Catalonia.
- 1936
- Italian Somaliland and Italian Eritrea are merged into Italian East Africa.
- 1973
- British Honduras is renamed to Belize but remains under British administration.
- 1999
- Reconstruction begins on Charles Grimes Bridge in Melbourne.
- 2012
- Barricades Cinema closes in Moscow.
Other dates
For other dates, see Category:On this day in OpenHistoricalMap.
Contributing
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.