6.5.3.3. Editing a historical event

Registry Administrators and Registry Maintainers can edit the historical events for the organization they are a part of.

1. Go to the Historical Events module either by clicking the module icon on the homepage or by clicking the hamburger menu () in the upper right corner and selecting Historical Events.\

   
2. In the Manage Historical Events tab, find the historical event you would like to edit. To help you find the historical event, you may fill out one or more of the fields found at the top of the page:

   1. Geo-Object Type Before: the Geo-Object Type before the historical event happened

   2. Start Date: The starting date of validity of the historical event

   3. End Date: The end date of validity of the historical event\

      
3. Once you found the historical event you would like to edit, click the pencil button () at the start of the row for that historical event (in the example below, the historical event of merging the Bacong and Santa Rosa Shires is to be edited).\

   
4. In the window that opens, make the necessary changes to the historical event representation then click the Submit button at the bottom of the page. The changes you made have now been applied.\