List of timelines explained

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.

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

Women in history

Contemporary culture

Comic books

Fictional timelines of history

See also: Fictional universe.

• 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

Extant civilizations

Subnational regions and cities, narrow timelines

Military

Military conflicts

Religion

Ayyavazhi

• Timeline of Ayyavazhi history (1809–present)

Buddhism

• Timeline of Buddhism (563 BCE – present)

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

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)

Environmental sciences

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

Meteorology

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

Psychology

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

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

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

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

• Chronology
• Common Era (explains CE and BCE)
• Dating creation
• Hindu/Vedic chronometry
• Holocene calendar
• New chronology (Fomenko)
• Tamil chronometry
• Timeline
• Templates:
  • Human timeline
  • Life timeline
  • Nature timeline
• 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).