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The Dates that Dominate Wikipedia's Telling of Global History - Making global histories is difficult. Research in global history has grappled for at least twenty years with the limitations that available methods pose to explaining global movements, connections, and phenomena (Clarence-Smith, Pomerance and Vries, 2006; Gänger and Jürgen Osterhammel, 2024). While these limitations can be pragmatic—from archival access and restrictions to individual scholars’ limited linguistic backgrounds—current theories in global history are most useful for national, regional, or small-scale comparative scopes rather than the large-scale global resonance of historical phenomena. Here, we introduce a comparably large-scale and computational approach by looking for convergences and divergences in the dates mentioned across hundreds of thousands of Wikipedia articles written in hundreds of languages. We find that four dates dominate a significant proportion of the dataset, indicating that articles across