Timelines

Page last edited 02/22/12
Science & Technology || Individuals || Customize your own timeline

1. African American History Timeline; 1852-1880 , 1881-1900 , 1901-1925
2. America During the Age of Revolution - 1764 - 1775 , 1776 - 1789
3. America on the Move - explores the role of transportation in America's history (drag the timeline to see different time periods)
4. American History timeline posted by the Smithsonian
5. American Music - 1640 to 2000
6. Art History from the Metropolitan Museum of Art
7. Berlin Wall
8. Calendar Timeline - Timeline of interesting calendar facts
9. Civil War - Time Line of The Civil War: 1861 , 1862 , 1863 , 1864 , 1865
10. U. S. Civil War (includes links to many photographs)
11. A Chronology of U. S. Historical Documents - (pre-Colonial to present)
12. Dust Bowl timeline from PBS
13. Fashion - 1858 - 2000
14. The Face of Russia traces the general chronology of Russian culture. Ten centuries of art, architecture, music, dance and
    cinema reveals the major events that shaped Russian culture.
15. Food Timeline - Ever wonder what the Vikings ate when they set off to explore the new world? What the pioneers cooked along the Oregon Trail? Food is the fun part of social studies! You might also want to check out the Culinary History Timeline .
16. The Great War - This interactive timeline will allow you to trace the history of the Great War (WWI). (from PBS)
17. Growth of a Nation - 10 minute presentation; growth of our nation from 1789 to 1959. Click on a decade number at the bottom to see an expanded timeline of that decade. This is a fantastic overview.
18. Holocaust Timeline - (from 1933 to 1961)
19. HyperHistory - Online version of a great wall chart
20. Indonesia - (from about 100 AD to current)
21. Interactive Historical Timelines from WhoWhatWhen. This site contains a database of people and events from 1000 A.D. to the present. With this site you can create graphic timelines of periods in history and of the lives of individuals.
22. A Time Line of Mathematicians - posted by School of Mathematics and Statistics at the University of St Andrews, Scotland
23. Macro History - index of timelines ( from 60,000 BCE to 1950 )
24. McDonald's (Yes, the Golden Arches people!)
25. Medieval History Timeline - (from 800 to 1499)
26. Millennium - 1000 years of History - Experience the people, events and achievements that have shaped the world. Timelines, in pop-up windows, are available in each century
27. Millennium Milestones - The 100 Most Significant Events of the Last Thousand Years
28. Nobel Prize winners
29. People and History of Mexico - time line in the form of a hot list
30. Pulitzer Prizes
31. The Salem Witch Trials 1692 : A Chronology of Events
32. Secrets of the Pharaohs from PBS (requires Flash), a HTML version is also available
33. So Little Time : an AIDS Chronology
34. Stylistic Timeline Of Music History - from the music of ancient times to 21st Century music (a huge timeline)
35. Teddy Bear's American History Timeline - 1900-1990
36. Thanksgiving Timeline - The story of the Pilgrims and the Wampanoag begins before the Thanksgiving feast. Relive the Pilgrims' first year in America, and learn how the Wampanoag helped them survive in the New World.
37. The Time Machine - This U.S. Mint site has twelve hyperlinked dates, each one tells a story. Fantastic !
38. The Titanic - an interactive timeline of the Titanic, from the creation to the aftermath.
39. Underground Railroad timeline - from National Geographic
40. Western Philosophers - This is a vertical timeline of western philosophers from 600 BC to current
41. World History -1000 - 2002
42. Year by Year 1900 to 2005 from InfoPlease

Science and Technology timelines

1. Inventions by Century
   1. 11th - 14th Century Inventions 1000 - 1399
   2. 15th Century Inventions 1400 - 1499
   3. 16th Century Inventions 1500 - 1599
   4. 17th Century Inventions 1600 - 1699
   5. 18th Century Inventions 1700 - 1799
   6. 19th Century Inventions 1800 - 1850 , 1851 - 1899
   7. 20th Century Inventions 1900 - 1925 , 1926 - 1950 , 1951 - 1975 , 1976 - 1999 ,
   8. 21st Century Inventions 2000+
2. 50 Years of Hard Drives - a Washington Post article which includes the timeline
3. Atomic Structure timeline
4. Aviation timeline 1900 to present (from PBS)
5. Chronology of Personal Computers - (1947 to current)
6. Climate TimeLine Information Tool - Exploring Weather & Climate Change through the powers of 10 (from NOAA)
7. Computing History - this 68 page document takes a while to download, but it's worth the wait.
8. DNA Interactive Timeline
9. Evolutionary Thought timeline - the life and work of notable people who have contributed to evolutionary thought
   1. Other timelines related to Evolution
10. Galileo timeline
11. Geologic Time Line - posted by the San Diego Natural History Museum
12. Highway Through Time - The highway on your screen - marked off in one-kilometer increments - represents Earth's evolutionary history. On this five-kilometer stretch, each kilometer equals one billion years.
13. Internet Timeline - (from 1957 to 2003)
14. Inventions from Bell Labs
15. Lunar and Planetary Exploration Chronology 1957 to 2009
16. Microbiology Time Line
17. The Mysteries of Deep Space Timeline - From the Big Bang to the End of the Universe (from PBS)
18. NASA History timelines
19. Nobel Prize for Chemistry (with photos)
20. Nuclear Age Timeline - posted by the U. S. Department of Energy ( Caution : This page opens in a new window. Close the window to return to this list)
21. Oak Ridge National Laboratory timeline
22. Physics - A century of Physics presented by the American Physical Society.
23. Plate Tectonics animations - Go way back in time with these animations of earth crust movement
24. Robotics timeline - You will never guess how far back this timeline stretches!
25. Science Timeline - steps in the evolution of Western thinking about nature
26. Space Program timeline - from NPR, clicking the left and right arrows to scroll through images and facts.
27. Strange Science timeline - This list chronicles some of the major events in the history of paleontology and biology.
28. Technology and Inventions Timeline - This is a time line from 1752 - 1990 identifying and describing inventions on everything from the lightning rod, sewing machine, and escalator, to the artifical heart, air conditioner, and zipper.

Individuals

1. Samuel Taylor Coleridge (scroll down after his works)
2. William Faulkner
3. Abraham Lincoln
4. Elvis Presley
5. Ronald Reagan
6. Jackie Robinson
7. Lewis & Clark

Customize your own Timeline

1. Customize your own timeline - This free service is offered by OurTimeLines.com. They request that webmasters not link to the timeline generator. Therefore you must go to the bottom of their page where you see the phrase, Ready to check it out? Just... Click!
2. Free Timelines - This free timeline maker allows you to build, save, and print arbitrary timelines absolutely free. Use the control buttons located on the blue bar below the ads.
3. Make your own Timeline , thanks to Teachnology - ( scroll down past the membership information ) Their generator can be used to make time lines of up to 9 events of your choice. Select either a horizontal or vertical timeline.
4. Use Excel to create a Timeline - This activity collects data about the Pilgrims and uses the data to make a timeline.
5. Use Excel to create a Timeline - This activity creates a timeline using TCAP format.