Timelapse of Every Battle in History

This video shows every battle referenced on Wikipedia (10,624). Every battle is represented by a dot. Dots stay on the map for a while and then disappear. List of every battle on Wikipedia : Rules • Battles are included only if they have a Wikipedia article • Each country can only have 1 predecessor state at the same time (eg. the UK’s predecessor is England, but not Scotland) Methodology: I used Wikipedia as a directory of battles: 1. I created a query with Wikidata Query to get the list of all articles tagged as “battle“ by Wikipedia. This gives me about 12,000 battles 2. I downloaded the data that is included in the top right hand table of every of those Wikipedia article. I did it for the following versions of Wikipedia: English, French, German, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Arabic, Chinese, Russian, Greek, Turkish, Serbo-Croatian, Japanese, Danish,