Map the past.
Keep the evidence in view.
Marches is a mapmaking workspace for historical research and teaching. Bring your places, draw the borders your sources describe, and show where the evidence is uncertain.
No account needed. Save your project to keep working; export a map for a paper, a lecture, or the web.
A free tool from the maker of RECTO/verso ↗, a workspace for the research behind your maps.
Timeline
Highlight arrivals and fade what just ended.
Show each place, border, and route’s dates beneath the map.
Years & captions
Captions saved for other years
Select a year above to add a caption.
Playback options
Year intervals also set the years in comparison grids and image series.
How dates work
1533 shows a place from that year onward. 1533–1533 shows it only in 1533; 1533–1536 includes both end years. Choose Show all years above the map to stop playback and see everything.
Blank or unreadable dates always show. Approximate dates such as “c. 900” switch at the stated year. Leave From and To blank to use the dates in your map. Playback, comparison grids, and image series share the same selected years. More about dates ↗
Base map: Made with Natural Earth.