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The OpenHistoricalMap portal features a selection of establishments and disestablishments on each day of the year, based on OpenHistoricalMap data. This list highlights important changes in the world, as well as more mundane events that demonstrate the project's ambitious tendency toward micromapping history.

May 8

1533

A rebuilt Église Sainte-Croix-des-Pelletiers is dedicated in Rouen, France.

1751

In the Connecticut Colony, Litchfield County is created from parts of Fairfield, Hartford, and New Haven counties.

1837

State-owned mining begins in Hohenpeißenberg, Bavaria, with the opening of the Hauptstollen (main adit).

1895

Under the Treaty of Shimonoseki, China cedes Formosa (Taiwan) and the Pescadores (Penghu) Islands to Japan.

1917

In Utah, Rich County gains territory from Summit County in an act that would be overturned by the Utah Supreme Court in 1921.

1978

The Marikina School of Arts and Trades becomes the Marikina Institute of Science and Technology in Marikina, Metro Manila.

2015

In Cincinnati, the Dunnhumby Centre is renamed to the 84.51° Centre as its namesake tenant renames to 84.51°.

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