List of timelines

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For other uses of "Timeline", see Timeline (disambiguation).

This is a list of timelines currently on Wikipedia.

Overview[]

See also the categories Historical timelines, Graphical timelines, Timelines by year, Lists of years by topic, Tables of years, and History

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[]

  • Chronology of the Universe
  • Timeline of cosmological epochs (13,700,000,000 BCE – present)
  • List of time periods
  • List of decades, centuries, and millennia
  • 3rd millennium (expected future events)
  • List of years
    • 2021

History[]

See also: § Peoples, nations, cultures and geographical
  • Timeline of ancient history (3500 BCE – 500 CE)
  • Timeline of ancient Greek mathematicians (700 BCE – 600 CE)
  • Timeline of country and capital changes (3850 BCE – present)
  • Timeline of early modern history (1500 CE – 1899)
  • Timeline of environmental history (15,000 BCE – present)
  • Timeline of European exploration
  • Timeline of European imperialism
  • Timeline of the far future (10,000 CE – )
  • Timeline of human prehistory (200,000 BCE – 3400 BCE)
  • Timeline of LGBT history (9660 BCE – present)
  • Timeline of modern American conservatism (1933 CE – present)
  • Timelines of modern history (1500 CE – present)
  • Timeline of natural history (13,700,000,000 BCE – 200,000 BCE)
  • Timeline of the Middle Ages (410 CE – 1499)
  • Timeline of women in the United States (1756 CE – present)
  • Timeline of pre-Columbian trans-oceanic contact (47,000 BCE–1492 CE)
  • Chronology of European exploration of Asia (330 BCE–1595 CE)
  • Chronology of colonialism
  • Chronology of the colonization of North America
  • Abolition of slavery timeline (1102 CE–present)
  • Timeline of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender history (25th century BCE – present)
  • List of lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender firsts by year
  • Timeline of same-sex marriage (1989 CE–present)
  • Timeline of the open-access movement (1942–present)
  • Timeline of Philippine sovereignty
  • Timeline of the Salem witch trials (1688–1713)
  • List of African-American firsts (1738–present)

Women in history

Arts[]

See also: Category:History of fiction

Biographical[]

See also: Category:Personal timelines

Contemporary culture[]

See also the categories Culture-related timelines and History of fiction
See also: § Sports

Entertainment[]

See also: Category:History of fiction

Crime[]

See also: § Terrorism

Disasters[]

See also: § Environment
  • List of historic fires (356 BCE – present)
  • List of massacres
  • List of epidemics
  • Lists of nuclear disasters and radioactive incidents
  • Chronology of the sinking of the RMS Titanic

Economics[]

Environment[]

General
  • List of years in the environment and environmental sciences
    • 2021 in the environment and environmental sciences
  • Timeline of environmental history (15,000 BCE – present)
  • Timeline of the New Zealand environment (10th century CE – present)
  • Timeline of history of environmentalism (630s – present)
Weather and environmental disasters
Life

Fictional[]

The following is a list of fictional timelines.

  • Ex Machina timeline – comic book series created by Brian K. Vaughan and Tony Harris, and published by DC Comics under the WildStorm imprint.
  • Foundation series timeline – events detailed in Isaac Asimov's Foundation series.
  • New Crobuzon timeline – fictional city-state created by China Miéville.
  • Sky Girls timeline
  • Timeline of Star Trek – science fiction television series, later expanded to other media.
  • Ware Tetralogy timeline – four science fiction novels by author Rudy Rucker.
  • Future History, a list of future events chronicled in much of the science fiction of Robert A. Heinlein, and one of the first fictional timelines published by an author.
  • Publication history of DC Comics crossover events – a timeline of major events in the comic book universe of the DC Universe.

Peoples, nations, cultures and geographical[]

See also: § History, and § Politics
  • 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[]

  • Chronology of the ancient Near East (Ancient Orient including Babylonia and Assyria)
  • Conventional Egyptian chronology (3200 BCE – 525 BCE)
  • Egyptian chronology
  • History of ancient Israel and Judah (1700 BCE – 200 BCE)
  • Kings of Rome (prior to the establishment of the Roman Republic) (753 BCE – 510 BCE)
  • List of Roman Consuls
  • Mesoamerican chronology
  • Seljuk Rulers (1037 CE – 1194)
  • Timeline of ancient Greece (800 BCE – 146 BCE)
  • Timeline of ancient Mesopotamia
  • Timeline of Roman history (754 BCE – 1461 CE)
  • Timeline of prehistoric Scotland (10,800 BCE – 1 BCE)
  • Timeline of the Three Kingdoms period (184 CE – 251)

Extant civilizations[]

Supranational entities and regions, peoples[]

Sovereign states[]

Subnational regions and cities, narrow timelines[]

See also: Category:City timelines

Health[]

See also: § Physiology, medicine, and health
  • List of epidemics
  • Timeline of global health (18th century-present)
  • Timeline of hospitals
  • Timeline of deworming
  • Timeline of colorectal cancer
  • Timeline of cancer treatment development
  • Timeline of healthcare in the United Kingdom
  • Timeline of healthcare in Italy
  • Timeline of the COVID-19 pandemic

Law[]

See also: § Politics

Military[]

See also: § Politics

Military conflicts[]

Philosophy[]

Politics[]

See also: § Peoples, nations, cultures and geographical

Religion[]

Ayyavazhi[]

Buddhism[]

  • Timeline of Buddhism (563 BCE – present)

Christianity[]

  • Timeline of Christianity (6 BCE – present)
  • Chronology of the Bible
  • Chronology of Revelation
  • Book of Mormon chronology
  • Chronology of Jesus
  • Timeline of Christian missions (31 CE–present)
  • Timeline of Eastern Orthodoxy in America
  • Timeline of the English Reformation (1415–1554)
  • Timeline of women as Anglican and Protestant bishops (1929–present)
  • Timeline of women as archbishops (1934–present)

Islam[]

  • Timeline of Muslim history (545–present)
  • Timeline of the Muslim presence in the Iberian peninsula

Jainism[]

  • Timeline of Jainism

Judaism[]

Sikhism[]

  • Sikh Gurus (1469–1666)

Science[]

See also: § Technology
A graphical view of the Cosmic Calendar, featuring the months of the year, days of December, and the final minute.

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.

  • Chronology of the universe
  • List of years in science (1st century BCE – present)
    • 2021 in science
  • Timeline of historic inventions (7th century BC – present)
  • Timeline of scientific discoveries (17th century BCE – present)
  • Timeline of scientific experiments (240 BCE – present)
  • Timeline of scientific thought (3000 BCE – present)
  • Timeline of the history of scientific method (2000 BCE – 2009 CE)
  • Timeline of science and engineering in the Islamic world (610 CE – present)
  • Timeline of Polish science and technology (1251 – present)
  • Timeline of dendrochronology timestamp events (~10,000 BCE–present)

    • Anthropology[]

    • Timeline of anthropology (1870 – 2020)
    • Timeline of archaeology (1506 – present)

    Astronautics and planetary science[]

    Astronomy, astrophysics, and cosmology[]

    • Timeline of cosmology (16th century BCE – present)
    • Timeline of cosmological theories (16th century BCE – present)
    • Timeline of stellar astronomy (137 BCE – 1967 CE)
    • Timeline of solar astronomy (850 CE – present)
    • Timeline of solar system astronomy (2137 BCE – present)
    • Space by year (2011 – present)
    • Timeline of discovery of Solar System planets and their moons (3,300,000 BCE – present)
    • Timeline of white dwarfs, neutron stars, and supernovae (185 CE – 2006)
    • Timeline of knowledge about galaxies, clusters of galaxies, and large-scale structure (964 CE – present)
    • Timeline of knowledge about the interstellar and intergalactic medium (1848 CE – 1990)
    • Timeline of cosmic microwave background astronomy (1896 CE – 2009)
    • Timeline of astronomical maps, catalogs, and surveys (1800 BCE – present)
    • Timeline of the Big Bang (13,700,000,000 BCE – 100,000,000,000,000 CE)
    • Timeline of black hole physics (1640 CE – present)
    • Timeline of planetary exploration
    • Timeline of telescopes, observatories, and observing technology
    • List of asteroid close approaches to Earth

    Biology[]

    • Timeline of biology and organic chemistry
    • Timeline of biotechnology (7,000 BCE–present)
    • Timeline of evolution
    • Timeline of extinctions
    • Timeline of human evolution
    • Timeline of senescence research
    • Timeline of zoology

    Chemistry[]

    • Timeline of chemistry
    • Timeline of chemical elements discoveries
    • Timeline of physical chemistry

    Environmental sciences[]

    • List of years in the environment and environmental sciences
      • 2021 in the environment and environmental sciences
    Meteorology

    Geology and paleontology[]

    • Timeline of geology (1025–1980)
    • Geologic time scale (Prehistory)
    • Timetable of the Precambrian (Prehistory)
    • Timeline of paleontology (1027–2009)
    • Timeline of glaciation (Prehistory)
    • New Zealand geologic time scale (Prehistory)
    • Timeline of women in geology

    Mathematics and statistics[]

    Physiology, medicine, and health[]

    See also: § Health
    • Progress of the SARS outbreak (2002–2004)
    • Timeline of AIDS (1930s–present)
    • Timeline of antibiotics (1935 CE–present)
    • Timeline of medicine and medical technology (27th century BCE–present)
    • Timeline of sexual orientation and medicine (1886–present)
    • Timeline of vaccines (1796–present)
    • 2009 flu pandemic timeline (2009–2010)
    • 2014 Ebola virus disease epidemic timeline (2013–present)

    Physics[]

    Psychology[]

    • Timeline of psychology (1550 BCE–present)
    • Timeline of coaching psychology (1926–present)
    • Timeline of psychotherapy (1550 BCE–present)

    Sports[]

    Technology[]

    See also: § Science
    • 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[]

    • Timeline of communication technology (36th century BCE–present)
    • Timeline of postal history (1639–present)
    • Timeline of the telephone (1849–present)
    • Timeline of the introduction of television in countries and regions (1928–2012)
    • Timeline of the introduction of color television in countries (1950–1986)
    • Timeline of CGI in film and television (1971–present)
    Library science
    • Timeline of women in library science

    Computers and related technology[]

    See also: Category:Computing timelines

    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 (1826–present)
    • Timeline of telescope technology (antiquity–present)
    • Timeline of telescopes, observatories, and observing technology (1000–present)

    Measurement[]

    General mechanical engineering[]

    Transportation and space exploration[]

    See also: Category:Rail transport timelines
    • List of years in rail transport
      • 2021 in rail transport
    • Maritime timeline (45,000 BCE–1994)
    • Timeline of transportation technology (20,000 BCE–present)
    • Timeline of railway history (428 BCE–present)
    • Timeline of United States railway history (1810s–present)
    • Timeline of the London Underground (1820s–present)
    • Timeline of motorized bicycle history (1868–1986)
    • Timeline of aviation (1700/1000 BCE–present)
    • Timeline of rocket and missile technology (1st century–2010)
    • Timeline of spaceflight
    • Timeline of artificial satellites and space probes (1957–2010)

    Miscellanea[]

    Terrorism[]

    • Timeline of the September 11, 2001 attacks (1972–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)
    • September 11, 2001 timeline for the day of the attacks (11 September 2001)

    See also[]

    History
    • Index
    • Outline
    • Portal
    • Timelines
    • Category
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    • Chronology
    • Common Era (explains CE and BCE)
    • Dating Creation
    • Hindu/Vedic chronometry
    • Holocene calendar
    • New Chronology (Fomenko)
    • Tamil chronometry
    • Timeline
    • Ussher chronology

    External links[]

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