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- 762
- Rheinbach is first attested as a settlement in the Holy Roman Empire.
- 1607
- The Popham Colony is founded by British colonists in present-day Maine.
- 1859
- Colorado City is incorporated as a town in Kansas Territory, in what is now Colorado Springs, Colorado.
- 1898
- Wait-a-while station closes along the Narrandera Tocumwal line in New South Wales.
- 1919
- Pleasant Ridge is incorporated as a village in Michigan.
- 1951
- The kibbutz of Gonen is founded in Israel.
- 1968
- The final section of the Meon Valley Railway closes in Hampshire, England, after 65 years in service.
- 1988
- The Palace of Auburn Hills opens in Michigan.
This is a selection of establishments and disestablishments on August 13, based on OpenHistoricalMap data, that automatically appears on the OpenHistoricalMap page on August 13 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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