List of timelines
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Overview
There are several types of timeline articles.
- Historical timelines show the significant historical events and developments for a specific topic, over the course of centuries or millennia.
- Graphical timelines provide a visual representation for the timespan of multiple events that have a particular duration, over the course of centuries or millennia.
- Timelines by year are timelines for one particular year that show the developments for that year within the topical area of that timeline.
- Lists of years or Tables of years are indexes that list all of the individual timelines by year that pertain to a specific topic.
Timespans next to the timeline articles listed here include the date of the earliest item included in the linked timeline article.
Types
General
Prehistory
- Timeline of the early universe – events dating from the formation of the universe
- Timelines from the formation of the Earth to the rise of modern humans
- Timeline of natural history (13,700,000,000 BCE – 200,000 BCE)
- Timeline of the evolutionary history of life (4,300,000,000 BCE - present)
- Timeline of human evolution (4,300,000,000 BCE – 350,000 BCE)
- Timeline of the evolutionary history of life (4,300,000,000 BCE - present)
- Timeline of natural history (13,700,000,000 BCE – 200,000 BCE)
- Timeline of human prehistory (350,000 BCE – 3400 BCE)
History
History, chronologically
Women in history
Arts
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Biographical
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Contemporary culture
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Entertainment
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Comic books
Crime
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Disasters
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Economics
Environment
Fictional timelines of history
- Timeline of Star Trek – multimedia science fiction series.
Peoples, nations, cultures and geographical
- Timeline of food
- Chronology of colonialism
- Timeline of country and capital changes
- Timeline of maritime migration and exploration
- Timeline of the European migrant crisis
Ancient civilizations
Extant civilizations
Supranational entities and regions, peoples
Sovereign states
Subnational regions and cities, narrow timelines
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Health
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Law
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Military
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Military conflicts
Philosophy
Politics
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Religion
Ayyavazhi
- Timeline of Ayyavazhi history (1809–present)
Buddhism
- Timeline of Buddhism (563 BCE – present)
Christianity
Hinduism
Islam
Jainism
Judaism
Sikhism
- Sikh gurus (1469–1666)
Science

The Cosmic Calendar is a method to visualize the chronology of the universe, scaling its current age of 13.8 billion years to a single year in order to help intuit it for pedagogical purposes in science education or popular science.
- Timeline of scientific discoveries (17th century BCE – present)
- Timeline of scientific experiments (240 BCE – present)
- Timeline of the history of scientific method (2000 BCE – 2009 CE)
- Timeline of science and engineering in the Muslim world (610 CE – present)
- Timeline of Polish science and technology (1251 – present)
- Timeline of dendrochronology timestamp events (~10,000 BCE–present)
Anthropology
- Timeline of human development
- Timeline of anthropology (1870–2020)
- Timeline of archaeology (1506 – present)
Astronautics and planetary science
Astronomy, astrophysics, and cosmology
Biology
Chemistry
Environmental sciences
Geology and paleontology
Mathematics and statistics
Meteorology
Physiology, medicine, and health
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Physics
Psychology
- Timeline of psychology (1550 BCE–present)
- Timeline of coaching psychology (1926–present)
- Timeline of psychotherapy (1550 BCE–present)
Sports
Technology
- History of technology (2.5 Mya–present)
- Timeline of historic inventions (3.3–2.6 Mya–present)
- Timelines of United States inventions and discoveries (1717–2009)
- Timeline of Russian inventions and technology records
- Timeline of sustainable energy research 2020–present
- List of technologies
Communication and information media
Computers and related technology
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Everyday necessities
- Timeline of agriculture and food technology (12,000 BCE – present)
- Timeline of clothing and textiles technology (50,000 BCE–1963)
Light and optical instruments
- Timeline of lighting technology (Prehistory–present)
- Timeline of microscope technology (1590–present)
- Timeline of photography technology (1717–present)
- Timeline of telescope technology (antiquity–present)
- Timeline of telescopes, observatories, and observing technology (1000–present)
Measurement
- Timeline of temperature and pressure measurement technology (1450–1930)
- Timeline of time measurement technology (270 BCE–present)
General mechanical engineering
- Timeline of motor and engine technology (Template:Circa–70 CE–present)
- Timeline of heat engine technology (Prehistory– present)
- History of robots (Ancient times – present)
Transportation and space exploration
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Miscellaneous
Terrorism
- Timeline of terrorist attacks in the United States (1782–present)
- Timeline of the September 11, 2001 attacks (1939–present)
- Timeline for the day of the September 11 attacks (11 September 2001)
- Timeline for September following the September 11 attacks (11–30 September 2001)
- Timeline for October following the September 11 attacks (October 2001)
- Timeline beyond October following the September 11 attacks (November 2001–present)
- Timeline of Earth Liberation Front actions (1997–present)
- Timeline of the 2011 Norway attacks (1999–22 July 2011)
- Timeline of Abu Sayyaf attacks (2000–present)
- Timeline of terrorism in Egypt (2013–present)
See also
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- Chronology
- Common Era (explains CE and BCE)
- Dating creation
- Hindu/Vedic chronometry
- Holocene calendar
- New chronology (Fomenko)
- Tamil chronometry
- Timeline
- Templates:
- Ussher chronology
External links
- ChronoZoom is a timeline for Big History being developed for the International Big History Association by Microsoft Research and University of California, Berkeley
- Asian Studies online: a timeline of major developments
- Alabama Civil War Timeline
- Asian Studies online:timelines data base
- Art of the Wikipedia Nature Timelines (includes: Human timeline; Life timeline; Nature timeline).