assassination of Sidónio Pais

Name: assassination of Sidónio Pais
Start: 1918

1918 CE.

Shown on the map at 38.700°, -9.133°.

The fourth President of Portugal, Sidónio Pais, was shot and fatally wounded at the Lisboa-Rossio Railway Station in Lisbon, Portugal on 14 December 1918. The act was carried out by the left-wing political activist José Júlio da Costa.

Text from the Wikipedia article Assassination of Sidónio Pais, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

Everything else in 1918 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 is an interactive map of world history: pick any year from 123,000 BCE to 2026 and the borders, events and people of that moment are drawn for you. It needs JavaScript to draw the map. The guide, the sources and licences and the privacy page are readable without it.

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

assassination of Sidónio Pais

Saved · 0