List of timelines

This is a list of timelines currently on Wikipedia.

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 human prehistory (350,000 BCE – 3400 BCE)

History

• Timeline of Philippine sovereignty
• Timeline of South Asian history

History, chronologically

Women in history

Arts

Biographical

Contemporary culture

Entertainment

Comic books

Crime

Disasters

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

Health

Law

Military

Military conflicts

Philosophy

Politics

Religion

Ayyavazhi

• Timeline of Ayyavazhi history (1809–present)

Buddhism

• Timeline of Buddhism (563 BCE – present)

Christianity

Hinduism

• Timeline of Hinduism
• Timeline of Hindu texts

Islam

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

Jainism

• Timeline of 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

• List of years in the environment and environmental sciences
  • 2024 in the environment and environmental sciences

Meteorology

• Timeline of meteorology (350 BCE – present)
• Timeline of temperature and pressure measurement technology (9th century CE–present)

Geology and paleontology

Mathematics and statistics

Physiology, medicine, and health

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

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 (c. 30–70 CE–present)
• Timeline of heat engine technology (Prehistory– present)
• History of robots (Ancient times – present)

Transportation and space exploration

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)

This list is incomplete; you can help by adding missing items. (August 2008)

See also

History
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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).