Târgu Frumos founded

1426 CE.

Shown on the map at 47.210°, 27.013°.

Târgu Frumos (also spelled Tîrgu Frumos, sometimes Târgul / Tîrgul Frumos, Romanian pronunciation: [ˌtɨrɡu fruˈmos]; Hungarian: Szépvásár; German: Schöner Markt) is a town in Iași County, Western Moldavia, Romania. Eleven villages were administered by the town until 2004, when they were split off to form Balș, Costești, and Ion Neculce communes.

Text from the Wikipedia article Târgu Frumos, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

Everything else in 1426 CE

HistoryLayer draws the world as it was in any year from 123,000 BCE to 2026. Move the slider and the borders redraw for that year; the map carries 23,890 events, 12,790 people, 837 wars and 13,183 cities, each one readable in place. Signing in is optional and lets you keep what you find.

HistoryLayer
1914CE
World Wars
123,000 BCE2026 CE
54 stops — one per surviving map on file, evenly spaced drag the pin · ←→ steps one stop the same 54 stops by true elapsed time ↑
Map & filters
Show on the map
Filter
Colour by
Polity Empire