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- 1606
- Oruro is founded in the Governorate of Charcas, Viceroyalty of Peru.
- 1683
- The English Province of New York is reorganized into counties. Yorkshire is eliminated, its three ridings becoming New York, Westchester, Richmond, Kings, Queens, and Suffolk counties. Cornwall County is recreated to cover all of the Duke of York’s grant in present-day Maine and Québec, including the Pemaquid settlement, which Massachusetts had governed since 1674.
- 1780
- In Virginia, Kentucky County is abolished and divided into Fayette, Jefferson, and Lincoln counties.
- 1833
- In Scotland, the Burgh of Leith separates from Edinburgh.
- 1861
- Colorado Territory is divided into 18 counties.
- 1903
- Victoria Jubilee Road opens in British Hong Kong.
- 1938
- The Republic of Poland annexes the Trans-Olza.
- 1945
- Taipei City is restructured as a provincial municipality following the end of Japanese rule over Taiwan.
- 1971
- A KFC restaurant opens in Ukiah, California.
- 2020
- Construction begins on the Jerusalem Light Rail’s Red Line.
This is a selection of establishments and disestablishments on November 1, based on OpenHistoricalMap data, that automatically appears on the OpenHistoricalMap page on November 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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