· v1.9.0
A second world beside the Earth, and modern states dated from their own beginnings
- Map
- Rulers and reigns
- Data and accuracy
The atlas now opens on a second world, the history of Tolkien's Middle-earth from the Years of the Trees to the end of the Third Age, built with the same timeline, map and reading as the Earth. And on the Earth, a modern state no longer stretches back across the kingdoms and empires that came before it: each begins where its own history does, and the events of earlier centuries belong to the states that stood when they happened.
- The second world, beside the atlas's name: the annals of the First, Second and Third Ages, every realm drawn on a map grown from the text and from freely licensed sketch maps, each person where the record puts them in the year on screen. An unofficial, non-commercial fan project; its text comes from the fans' wiki under CC BY-SA, and the books are cited by chapter, never reproduced.
- Twenty-nine present-day states are dated from their own beginnings: Russia from 1991, Japan from 1947, Germany from 1990, Italy from 1946, Poland, Hungary and Romania from 1989, Ukraine and Georgia from 1991, Portugal from 1910, Brazil from 1889, and more. The kingdoms, empires and republics before them were already drawn as states of their own; now the events of their centuries are theirs too, so the Battle of Kulikovo belongs to Muscovy and Lomonosov to the Tsardom of Russia.
- France keeps its long span as the country, and every event filed under it now belongs to the French state of its day, from Francia to the Fifth Republic; the Battle of France in May 1940 is the Third Republic's.
- Seventeen states keep their span, because what they seemed to swallow was a regime, a rival claim or an occupation inside one continuing state: the United States beside the Confederacy, Mexico beside its First Empire, Estonia and Latvia under Soviet occupation.
- The counts of titled people and office-holders follow those Wikidata files under a modern country back to the kingdoms they lived in: the Kingdom of Hungary, the Polish Crown and Commonwealth, the shogunates of Japan.
- The atlas's code is licensed under the GPL, version 3, and the atlas is a non-commercial project; the About panel says so beside the data's own licences.