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- 1878
- East Prussia is restored as a province of Prussia.
- 1889
- Japan's modern system of municipalities is established, including the towns and villages of Kōka District, Shiga.
- 1901
- In São Paulo, Brazil, a section of the Estrada de Ferro Araraquara’s Linha Tronco opens from Matão to Santa Ernestina.
- 1907
- Deutsch-Wilmersdorf in the German Empire left the district of Teltow and became an independent urban district.
- 1922
- In the United States, Toledo and other northwestern Ohio towns along the New York Central Railroad are moved from the Central Time Zone to the Eastern Time Zone.
- 1974
- Local government in the United Kingdom is reformed under the Local Government Act 1972, creating a system of county and district councils such as Dyfed in Wales.
- 1985
- In Israel, the towns of Maccabim and Reut merge to form Maccabim-Reut.
- 1996
- Local government in Wales is reformed under the Local Government (Wales) Act 1994, abolishing counties and districts such as Dyfed.
- 2004
- In South Korea, the first section of the Gyeongbu high-speed railway opens from Seoul to Daejeon.
- 2017
- The Reconciliation Pole is installed at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver.
This is a selection of establishments and disestablishments on April 1, based on OpenHistoricalMap data, that automatically appears on the OpenHistoricalMap page on April 1 of each year. This list highlights important changes in the world, as well as more mundane events that demonstrate the project's ambitious tendency toward micromapping history.
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