Timeline

2025-07-01

Jakarta · 41.914 million people · Jakarta, Indonesia

2025-07-01

India · about 941.4 million people · India

2025-07-01

China · about 939.481 million people · China

2024-12-31

Vatican City State · 882 people · Vatican City State

2024-07-01

United States · about 52.375 million people · United States

2024-01-01

India · 979,751,847 registered electors · India

2024-01-01

Library of Congress · 181,130,554 items · Washington, D.C., United States

2024-01-01

India · about 1.444 billion people · India

2024-01-01

Monaco · about 18537 people/km² · Monaco

2024-01-01

Papua New Guinea · 840 languages · Papua New Guinea

2021-01-01

China · about 1.427 billion people · China

2014-01-01

Malala Yousafzai · 17 years · Oslo, Norway

2013-01-01

Sweden · 267570 islands · Sweden

2010-07-01

United States · about 43.947 million people · United States

2000-07-01

Tokyo · 30.303 million people · Tokyo, Japan

1997-08-04

Jeanne Louise Calment · 122 years 164 days · Arles, France

1990-07-01

United States · about 23.266 million people · United States

1969-04-22

Robin Knox-Johnston · First achievement · Falmouth

1967-12-03

Christiaan Barnard · First achievement · Groote Schuur Hospital, Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa

1960-01-23

Trieste · First achievement · Challenger Deep

1953-05-29

Hillary and Tenzing summit team · First achievement · Summit of Mount Everest

1940-06-27

Robert Wadlow · 272 cm

1929-01-01

Vatican City State · about 0.44 km² · Vatican City State

1893-09-19

New Zealand · First achievement · New Zealand

1872-03-01

Yellowstone National Park · First achievement · Yellowstone National Park, USA

1789-03-04

Constitution of the United States · In force since 1789 · United States

1760-01-01

Beyer Chronometrie · First achievement · Founded in Donaueschingen, now operating in Zurich

1752-01-01

Tiergarten Schönbrunn (Schönbrunn Zoo) · 1752 year · Vienna, Austria

1732-01-01

Bertrand Booksellers · First achievement · Lisbon, Portugal

1645-01-01

Post- och Inrikes Tidningar · 1645 year · Sweden

1625-05-08

Flag of Denmark · In documented use since at least 1625 · Denmark

1545-01-01

Botanical Garden of Padua · First achievement · Padua, Veneto, Italy

1522-09-06

Nao Victoria · First achievement · Sanlúcar de Barrameda, Andalusia, Spain

1474-03-19

Venetian Patent Statute of 1474 · First achievement · Republic of Venice (present-day Venice, Italy)

1471-01-01

Capitoline Museums · First achievement · Rome, Italy

0859-01-01

University of al-Qarawiyyin · 859 CE · Fez, Morocco

0705-01-01

Nishiyama Onsen Keiunkan · operating since AD 705 · Nishiyama Onsen, Hayakawa, Yamanashi, Japan

Russia · about 17,098,200 km² square kilometres · Northern Eurasia

Italy · 62 properties properties · Italy

Sacred City of Caral-Supe · about 5,000 years old · Supe Valley, Peru

Cahokia Mounds State Historic Site · more than 1,600 ha · Cahokia, Illinois, United States

Laws of Ur-Nammu · about 2100 BCE · Ancient Sumer, Mesopotamia (modern Iraq)

Jericho · over 11,000 years · Jericho, Jordan Valley, Palestine

Old-New Synagogue (Prague) · circa 1270s · Josefov, Prague, Czechia

La Paz · 3,631 m · La Paz, Bolivia