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Browse every Ever-When timeline — 195 lenses on history, from world history and country timelines to wars, religions, music and podcasts.

By place

Britain & Ireland

United Kingdom (combined) — The four nations' shared story on one timeline. (1645 entries)
England — England's story, from Roman Britain to today. (1417 entries)
England: Monarchs — Every ruler of England in one unbroken line of succession. (111 entries)
UK: Prime Ministers — Every prime minister since Walpole, ministry by ministry. (110 entries)
Scotland — Scotland's story, from the Picts to devolution. (115 entries)
Wales — The history of Wales, from the ancient Britons to the Senedd. (57 entries)
Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland — Ireland north and south — plantation, famine, independence, peace. (144 entries)
British Empire — The empire on which the sun never set — rise, rule and retreat. (268 entries)
English Civil War — Crown against Parliament, 1638–1660: the Covenant, the New Model Army, a king on trial, and the republic that died with Cromwell. (52 entries)

Europe

France — Gauls, kings, revolutions and republics. (869 entries)
Germany — From the Holy Roman Empire to reunification. (564 entries)
Spain — Al-Andalus, Reconquista, empire and modern Spain. (282 entries)
Italy (post-476 CE) — From the fall of Rome to the Republic — Italy after antiquity. (301 entries)
Russia & the USSR — Rus, tsars, Soviets and after. (458 entries)
Eastern Europe & the Balkans — From Byzantium and the medieval Slavic empires through the Ottoman and Habsburg centuries to 1989 and the wars of Yugoslav succession. (337 entries)
The Habsburg Dynasty — One family, six centuries: from a Swiss castle to world empire — the marriages, wars and Vienna of the House of Habsburg. (214 entries)
Scandinavia, the Nordic World & the Viking Age — Longships to welfare states: the Viking diaspora, the Kalmar Union, Sweden's imperial century and the modern North. (154 entries)
The Low Countries — Cloth towns to world empire: Flanders, the Dutch Golden Age, Leopold's Congo and the fields of Ypres. (142 entries)
Roman History — Rome from village to empire to fall. (370 entries)
Rome: Emperors — Every emperor from Augustus to the end in the West. (39 entries)
Ancient Greece — City-states, philosophers and the world they argued into being. (223 entries)

Middle East

Anatolia / Byzantium / Ottoman / Turkey — From Constantinople to Ankara — the empires of Anatolia. (239 entries)
Persia and Iran — Persia and Iran, from Cyrus the Great to the present. (151 entries)
The Levant — The crossroads of empires and faiths. (199 entries)
Mesopotamia & the Ancient Near East — The first cities and the first writing — where history begins. (58 entries)

Africa

Ancient Egypt — Pharaohs, pyramids and three thousand years on the Nile. (66 entries)
North Africa — Carthage to the Arab Spring, along Africa's Mediterranean shore. (119 entries)
Sub-Saharan Africa — Great kingdoms, trade empires and modern nations south of the Sahara. (238 entries)

Asia

China — Dynasties, revolutions and rebirth — China's four thousand years. (373 entries)
Japan — Emperors, shoguns and the road to modern Japan. (216 entries)
India — Empires, faiths and independence on the subcontinent. (420 entries)
Korea — Three kingdoms, one peninsula, two Koreas. (66 entries)
Southeast Asia — Khmer temples to modern tigers — Southeast Asia's story. (98 entries)
Mongol Empire — The largest land empire in history, at full gallop. (56 entries)
The Silk Road & the Steppe — Horses, silk, faiths and hordes: five thousand years of the corridor between China and the West. (97 entries)

Americas

USA — From first peoples and thirteen colonies to superpower. (919 entries)
USA: Presidents — Every US president, from Washington to the present day. (89 entries)
Canada — First peoples to the true north — New France, Confederation and modern Canada. (112 entries)
Latin America — Conquest, liberation and modern Latin America. (333 entries)
Pre-Columbian Americas — The Americas before 1492 — Maya, Aztec, Inca and more. (111 entries)
History of Hip-Hop — From Bronx block parties to the Southern takeover. Cross-referenced to the documentary series Hip-Hop Evolution; not affiliated with its makers. (288 entries)

Oceania

Australia & the Pacific — Australia and the Pacific, from first peoples to today. (71 entries)

By theme

The big picture

Master — All of history on one line — from the Big Bang to this morning. (11797 entries)
Arts and Thoughts — Art, ideas, books and breakthroughs that changed how we think. (2147 entries)
People — The lives that shaped history, laid end to end. (952 entries)

Wars & conflicts

World War I — The Great War, 1914–1918, battle by battle. (192 entries)
World War II — The world at war, 1939–1945. (208 entries)
Cold War — Four decades on the nuclear brink, 1945–1991. (293 entries)
Napoleonic Wars — Europe remade by one man's wars, 1803–1815. (85 entries)
Crusades — Two centuries of holy war for the Levant. (96 entries)

Key events & periods

Greco-Persian Wars — 499–479 BCE: earth and water refused — Marathon, the pass at Thermopylae, the straits of Salamis, and the world's first clash of East and West. (24 entries)
The Peloponnesian War — 431–404 BCE: Athens against Sparta for the Greek world — plague, Sicily, betrayal, and the fall of the first democracy's empire. (27 entries)
The Spartacus Revolt — 73–71 BCE: seventy-eight gladiators with kitchen knives become an army of seventy thousand — and Rome answers with six thousand crosses. (9 entries)
Caesar's Conquest of Gaul — 58–50 BCE: eight years, a million dead, a bridge over the Rhine and a wall around Alesia — the campaign that made Caesar unstoppable. (14 entries)
Alexander the Great's Conquests — 336–323 BCE: from Macedon to the Indus in eleven years — the Knot cut, Persia taken, an army that refused to go further, and an empire with no heir. (36 entries)
The Wars of the Diadochi — 323–281 BCE: 'to the strongest' — forty years of Alexander's generals murdering each other for an empire, until three dynasties stand on its grave. (15 entries)
Second Punic War — 218–201 BCE: an oath at an altar, an army over the Alps, Cannae's annihilation — and the republic that refused to know when it was beaten. (26 entries)
Fall of the Roman Republic — The Gracchi to the Principate: street gangs and proscriptions, Caesar and the Rubicon, the Ides — and the heir who ended the Republic while claiming to restore it. (62 entries)
The Year of the Four Emperors — 68–69 CE: Nero falls, and the secret is out — emperors can be made outside Rome. Galba, Otho, Vitellius, Vespasian: eighteen months, four crowns, three corpses. (10 entries)
Justinian and Theodora — 527–565: an emperor born a peasant, an empress born a showgirl — law codified, Rome reconquered, Hagia Sophia raised, and half the world dead of plague. (21 entries)
The An Lushan Rebellion — 755–763: a favourite general turns on the golden age of Tang — the deadliest war the world would see for a thousand years. (13 entries)
Alfred and the Vikings — 865–899: a Great Army swallows every English kingdom but one — and a king in a marsh burns the cakes, wins at Edington, and invents England. (17 entries)
Norman Conquest — 1066, day by day: a comet, three claimants, three battles — and the kingdom remade from Hastings to Domesday. (22 entries)
The First Crusade — 1095–1099: Deus vult at Clermont, starvation at Antioch, the Holy Lance — and Jerusalem taken in blood. (20 entries)
Crusades — Two centuries of holy war for the Levant. (96 entries)
The Anarchy — 1120–1154: a drowned heir, a stolen crown, an empress escaping over the ice — nineteen winters when Christ and his saints slept. (14 entries)
Mongol Empire — The largest land empire in history, at full gallop. (56 entries)
Magna Carta — 1204–1225: a king who lost Normandy, taxed England raw and met his barons at Runnymede — a failed peace treaty that became the law of the land. (17 entries)
The Hundred Years' War — 1337–1453: five kings a side, longbows against chivalry, a peasant girl in armour — the 116-year war that made England English and France French. (31 entries)
The Black Death — 1346–1353: a bacillus rides the Silk Road and kills half of Europe — the deadliest pandemic in human history, city by city. (17 entries)
The Peasants' Revolt — 1381: a poll tax, a preacher's rhyme, London in rebel hands — and a fourteen-year-old king riding out to face thirty thousand angry men. (11 entries)
Joan of Arc — 1425–1456: a farm girl hears voices, crowns a king, burns at nineteen — and wins her case twenty-five years dead. (12 entries)
Fall of Constantinople — 1453: Mehmed's monster cannon, the chain across the Golden Horn, ships dragged over the hills — and a thousand years of Byzantium ending in a single dawn. (14 entries)
Wars of the Roses — 1455–1487: cousins at war for the crown — Towton's snow, the Kingmaker's turn, the Princes in the Tower, and a Tudor at Bosworth. (36 entries)
The Fall of Granada — 1482–1492: the Reconquista's ten-year endgame — a divided emirate, a city built for a siege, and the Moor's last sigh. (10 entries)
The Voyages of Columbus — 1492–1506: four crossings, a wrecked flagship, a triumph, chains and a marooning — the decade that joined two worlds, for better and worse. (16 entries)
The Reformation — 1517–1555: a monk's theses to the Peace of Augsburg — Luther defiant at Worms, the Bible in the vernacular, and Christendom split for good. (44 entries)
Conquest of the Aztec Empire — 1519–1521: five hundred Spaniards, tens of thousands of indigenous allies, smallpox and a lake fleet — and the fall of the largest city in the Americas. (30 entries)
Magellan's Voyage — 1519–1522: five ships sail west, one limps home — mutiny, a hidden strait, 98 days of starvation, and the first voyage around the world. (12 entries)
The Conquest of Peru — 1524–1572: smallpox, civil war, 168 men and an empire of millions — Cajamarca to Vilcabamba, gold to silver. (18 entries)
Henry VIII's Break with Rome — 1527–1547: a divorce the pope refused, a church seized, monasteries stripped, two queens and two ministers beheaded — England leaves Rome. (26 entries)
The Unification of Japan — 1560–1615: three warlords, one realm — Nobunaga breaks it, Hideyoshi builds it, Ieyasu eats it. (21 entries)
The French Wars of Religion — 1562–1598: eight civil wars, a wedding that became a massacre, three assassinated leaders — and a king who decided Paris was worth a mass. (14 entries)
The Dutch Revolt — 1566–1609: iconoclasts, Sea Beggars and cut dykes — eighty years of revolt that invent a republic and make it rich. (16 entries)
The Spanish Armada — 1587–1588: Philip's great fleet, Drake's raid, the Calais fireships, Gravelines — and the storms that finished what the English began. (16 entries)
Thirty Years' War — 1618–1648: a window in Prague to the Peace of Westphalia — four wars in one, the Lion of the North, and a Germany that lost a third of its people. (23 entries)
English Civil War — Crown against Parliament, 1638–1660: the Covenant, the New Model Army, a king on trial, and the republic that died with Cromwell. (52 entries)
The Plague and Fire of London — 1665–1666: a hundred thousand dead of plague, then four days of fire — and a diarist writing it all down while London burns behind him. (14 entries)
Peter the Great's Revolution — 1682–1725: a tsar who worked incognito in Dutch shipyards, taxed beards, built a capital on a swamp — and dragged Russia into Europe by force. (14 entries)
The 1683 Siege of Vienna — 1683–1699: two months of mines under the walls, then the largest cavalry charge in history — the high-water mark of the Ottoman Empire in Europe. (11 entries)
The Glorious Revolution — 1685–1691: a Catholic king, a Protestant wind, seven bishops acquitted — and a crown handed to William and Mary on Parliament's terms. (23 entries)
The Salem Witch Trials — 1692–1693: two girls in a parsonage, spectral evidence in court, twenty dead — and a colony's public repentance. (9 entries)
The Forty-Five — 1745–1746: seven men land on a Hebridean beach, an army reaches Derby — and the last battle on British soil ends a cause and a way of life. (14 entries)
The Seven Years' War — 1754–1763: the first world war — fought in Silesia, Bengal, Quebec and on every ocean, and won, mostly, by Britain. (17 entries)
American Revolution — Stamp Act to the Bill of Rights: taxes, tea and muskets, a declaration, a world war — and the constitution that followed. (43 entries)
French Revolution — From the Estates-General to Brumaire: a decade of revolution that remade French and European politics — liberty, terror and war. (56 entries)
The Haitian Revolution — 1791–1804: the only successful slave revolution in history — Bois Caïman to Vertières, and the price France exacted for losing. (19 entries)
Napoleonic Wars — Europe remade by one man's wars, 1803–1815. (85 entries)
Napoleon's Downfall — The Niemen to Saint Helena, 1812–1815: half a million men into Russia, the wreck at the Berezina, Leipzig, Elba — and a hundred days that end at Waterloo. (29 entries)
The Liberation of South America — 1808–1830: Napoleon breaks Spain's crown, and a continent walks free — Bolívar from the north, San Martín from the south, meeting at Guayaquil. (23 entries)
The Greek War of Independence — 1821–1832: a secret society, a poet's death at Missolonghi, an accidental naval battle — and the first new nation carved from the Ottoman Empire. (10 entries)
The Opium Wars — 1839–1860: a drug the emperor banned, gunboats the empire couldn't answer — and the century of humiliation begins. (14 entries)
The Irish Famine — 1845–1852: a fungus, a doctrine, and a million dead — the famine that halved Ireland and scattered it across the world. (11 entries)
The Revolutions of 1848 — 1848–1849: Europe's year of barricades — thrones totter from Palermo to Paris to Vienna, and then the old order strikes back. (23 entries)
The Taiping Rebellion — 1851–1864: a failed exam candidate who thought he was Christ's brother raises the bloodiest civil war in history — twenty million dead. (16 entries)
The Meiji Restoration — 1853–1877: black ships in Edo Bay, the shogunate's slow fall — and a samurai nation's headlong leap into the modern world. (22 entries)
The Crimean War — 1853–1856: the Light Brigade, the Lady with the Lamp, the first war reporters and photographers — modernity arrives on a medieval battlefield. (17 entries)
The Indian Rebellion of 1857 — 1857–1858: greased cartridges, Meerut to Delhi in a day, sieges and massacres on both sides — and the end of both the Mughals and the Company. (15 entries)
The Unification of Italy — 1848–1871: Cavour's chessboard and Garibaldi's thousand red shirts — a peninsula of eight states becomes one kingdom. (21 entries)
American Civil War — Secession to Appomattox and after: Sumter, the ironclads, Gettysburg, emancipation — and the assassination that darkened the peace. (41 entries)
Bismarck Unifies Germany — 1862–1871: blood and iron — three short wars, one edited telegram, and an empire proclaimed in the Hall of Mirrors. (21 entries)
The Scramble for Africa — 1875–1914: a continent partitioned on paper in Berlin and taken by Maxim gun — ninety per cent of Africa colonised in a single generation. (31 entries)
The Zulu War — 1879: an empire picks a fight and loses a regiment in a morning — Isandlwana, Rorke's Drift, and the six months that broke the Zulu kingdom. (14 entries)
Votes for Women — 1893–1928: petitions, prison bars and a king's horse — the thirty-five-year fight that won women the vote, country by country. (22 entries)
The Dreyfus Affair — 1894–1906: a forged memo, a degraded captain, a novelist's open letter — the miscarriage of justice that split France in two. (11 entries)
The Boxer Rebellion — 1899–1901: the Fists of Righteous Harmony against the world — 55 days at the legations, eight armies on Beijing, and a dynasty's last decade begins. (14 entries)
The Russo-Japanese War — 1904–1905: a surprise night attack, an 18,000-mile voyage to annihilation — the first modern defeat of a European great power by an Asian one. (10 entries)
The Mexican Revolution — 1910–1920: Madero's spark, Zapata's land, Villa's cavalry — a million dead, a dictator gone, and the constitution the twentieth century copied. (14 entries)
The Race to the South Pole — 1901–1917: dogs against ponies, a secret telegram, a tent eleven miles short of salvation — and the open boat that saved twenty-eight men. (10 entries)
July Crisis & Outbreak of WW1 — Thirty-seven days from Sarajevo to world war — the blank cheque, the ultimatum, the telegrams that failed — and the five months that dug the trenches. (39 entries)
World War I — The Great War, 1914–1918, battle by battle. (192 entries)
Russian Revolution — 1905 to the death of Lenin: the abdication, the sealed train, Red October, civil war and famine — and the state that came out of it. (43 entries)
Irish Revolutionary Period — Home Rule to the Free State, 1912–1923: covenants and gun-running, the Rising and its executions, the Tan war, the Treaty — and the civil war it split open. (29 entries)
Gandhi's Road to Independence — 1915–1948: salt, spinning wheels and satyagraha against the world's largest empire — and the assassination that ended the march six months after it arrived. (33 entries)
The Spanish Flu — 1918–1920: a virus rides the troopships home from the war that bred it — fifty million dead, and the century's forgotten catastrophe. (11 entries)
Atatürk and the Birth of Modern Turkey — 1915–1938: the commander of Gallipoli lands at Samsun, unmakes an empire's peace treaty — and legislates a republic, an alphabet and a hat. (20 entries)
The Chinese Civil War — 1921–1949: comrades, massacre, the Long March, an uneasy truce against Japan — and the four years that ended with Mao in Beijing and Chiang on Taiwan. (22 entries)
Hitler's Rise to Power — 1919–1934: a beer-hall party of fifty-four to the Führer state — putsch, prison, the ballot box, the fire, and the night of knives. (37 entries)
The Great Depression — 1929–1939: the Crash, the breadlines, the dust — and the decade that rewrote what governments owe their people. (23 entries)
The Holocaust — 1933–1946: from boycott placards to the death camps and the courtroom at Nuremberg — the murder of six million Jews, step by documented step. (29 entries)
Spanish Civil War — 1936–1939: the generals rise, the democracies look away — Madrid holds, Guernica burns, and the Republic dies at Barcelona. (27 entries)
World War II — The world at war, 1939–1945. (208 entries)
1940: Britain's Darkest Hour — Norway to the Coventry Blitz: Chamberlain falls, France falls, the little ships sail — and the Few hold the sky over England. (29 entries)
Stalingrad — 1942–1943: a city on the Volga, fought for room by room — the battle that broke the German army and turned the Second World War. (13 entries)
The Manhattan Project — 1939–1945: a letter to Roosevelt, secret cities in the desert, a light brighter than the sun at Trinity — and two cities to end a war. (22 entries)
D-Day & the Liberation of Europe — June 1944 to VE Day: the Channel crossed, Normandy broken open, Paris freed, the Bulge held — and the drive over the Rhine to the Elbe and the end. (31 entries)
Partition of India — The Lahore Resolution to the Radcliffe Line: two nations at midnight, fourteen million on the move — and Gandhi's last fast against the fire. (27 entries)
The Berlin Blockade — 1948–1949: Stalin closes the roads, the West answers by air — 277,000 flights, two Germanys, and the Cold War's first battle won without a shot. (16 entries)
The Fall of Apartheid — 1948–1998: the system built by law, broken by boycott, township and prison cell — and dismantled at the ballot box without the civil war everyone predicted. (29 entries)
The Korean War — 1950–1953: a dawn invasion, Inchon's gamble, China across the Yalu — and three years to an armistice that never became a peace. (18 entries)
The Decolonisation of Africa — 1945–1980: from four independent states to fifty — Ghana's midnight, the Year of Africa, the wind of change, and the wars where the empires would not go quietly. (28 entries)
The Cuban Revolution — 1952–1961: a failed barracks raid, twelve survivors in the Sierra Maestra, a dictator fleeing at New Year — and the revolution that brought the Cold War to the Americas. (14 entries)
The Civil Rights Movement — 1954–1968: from a Montgomery bus seat to the Memphis balcony — the fourteen years that remade America's conscience and its law. (38 entries)
The Vietnam War — 1945–1975: from Ho Chi Minh's declaration to the last helicopter off the roof — the thirty-year war America couldn't win and couldn't leave. (34 entries)
The Suez Crisis — 1956: Nasser takes the canal, Britain and France collude with Israel — and America pulls the plug on an empire in six days. (15 entries)
The Space Race — Sputnik to Apollo, 1957–1972: a beeping sphere, a man in orbit, a president's deadline — and two bootprints on the Moon before the decade was out. (25 entries)
Cold War — Four decades on the nuclear brink, 1945–1991. (293 entries)
Cuban Missile Crisis — Thirteen days in October 1962 — the photographs, the quarantine line, Black Saturday, and the secret deal that stepped back from the brink. (34 entries)
The Six-Day War — 1967: three weeks of brinkmanship, six days of war — Israel triples in size, and the Middle East's map is redrawn to this day. (14 entries)
The Prague Spring — 1968: socialism with a human face, eight months of free air — then half a million Warsaw Pact soldiers, and a student's torch in Wenceslas Square. (13 entries)
The Troubles — 1968–1998: civil rights to the Good Friday Agreement — Bloody Sunday, the H-Blocks, the bombs in Britain, and thirty years to an uneasy peace. (19 entries)
Watergate — 1972–1974: a third-rate burglary, a taped White House, a Saturday night of resignations — and the only US president ever to resign. (14 entries)
The Yom Kippur War — 1973: total surprise on the holiest day, tank battles to rival Kursk, a superpower nuclear alert — and the shock that led, strangely, to peace. (15 entries)
The Iranian Revolution — 1963–1981: an exiled cleric, a cinema fire, millions in the streets — the fall of the Shah, and 444 days that broke a US presidency. (19 entries)
Fall of the Soviet Union — Gorbachev's gamble, 1985–1991: glasnost, Chernobyl, the wall down, the empire out — and the red flag lowered over the Kremlin on Christmas Day. (35 entries)
Chernobyl — 1986: a safety test at 1:23 a.m., a graphite fire, a secret the wind refused to keep — the disaster that helped end the Soviet Union. (11 entries)
The Gulf War — 1990–1991: Saddam swallows Kuwait, a half-million-strong coalition answers — and war arrives live on television for the first time. (15 entries)
The Break-up of Yugoslavia — 1980–2008: after Tito, the deluge — a federation unravels into Europe's bloodiest wars since 1945, one republic at a time. (21 entries)
9/11 and the War on Terror — 1993–2011: a September morning that killed 2,977 people — and the two decades of war, from Tora Bora to Abbottabad, that followed it. (16 entries)
The Arab Spring — 2010–2013: a fruit-seller's match, eighteen days in Tahrir, four fallen rulers — and the springs that turned to winter in Syria and Libya. (15 entries)

Religion & belief

Major Religions — The world's great faiths and how they spread. (760 entries)
Christianity — From a Galilean movement to a global faith. (357 entries)
Islam — From the Prophet's revelation to a worldwide community. (171 entries)
Judaism — Four millennia of Jewish history and survival. (106 entries)
The Bible — The story the Bible tells, Genesis to Revelation — on its own timeline. (156 entries)
The Papacy — Two thousand years of the world's oldest institution — from Peter's crucifixion to the conclaves of the present day. (128 entries)

Science, medicine & money

Science & Technology — Discoveries and inventions, from fire to AI. (393 entries)
Medicine & Public Health — The long fight against disease, from four humours to gene therapy. (118 entries)
Economic History — Money, trade, booms and crashes through the ages. (180 entries)
Spaceflight — From Tsiolkovsky's equation to Starship: the rockets, the race, the stations and the probes that left Earth behind. (78 entries)
Pandemics & Plagues — The Black Death to COVID: the microbes that shaped history, and the long fight back from quarantine to eradication. (91 entries)

Arts & popular culture

Arts and Thoughts — Art, ideas, books and breakthroughs that changed how we think. (2147 entries)
UK Popular Music — The soundtrack of Britain, decade by decade. (1866 entries)
UK No. 1 Singles — Every UK No. 1 single since the charts began in 1952. (1457 entries)
US Popular Music — The soundtrack of America, decade by decade. (1607 entries)
US No. 1 Singles — Every US No. 1 single on the Billboard Hot 100 since 1958. (1201 entries)
World Popular Music — Songs that moved the world beyond the English-speaking charts. (98 entries)
History of Hip-Hop — From Bronx block parties to the Southern takeover. Cross-referenced to the documentary series Hip-Hop Evolution; not affiliated with its makers. (288 entries)
Painting & Sculpture — From the caves of Chauvet to a girl with a balloon — the paintings and sculptures everyone knows, and the hands that made them. (341 entries)
Classical Music — A thousand years of the concert canon — from Gregorian chant to the Rite of Spring riot, by way of Bach, Beethoven and a deaf man's Ninth. (266 entries)

Eras & movements

The Age of Dinosaurs — From the Cambrian Explosion to the asteroid: fins to feet, sails to fur — the long road to T. rex and the first mammals, and 186 million years of dinosaurs. (49 entries)
Human Origins & the Ice Age — Seven million years from the chimpanzee split to the first farmers — Lucy, fire, Neanderthals, the great migrations and the painted caves. (36 entries)
The Bronze Age — 3300–1100 BCE: the first cities, writing, the pyramids, Hammurabi and Troy — and the collapse that ended the first international age. (84 entries)
The Viking Age — 793–1066: longships from Lindisfarne to Baghdad and Newfoundland — raiders, traders, settlers and the kings who ended by building kingdoms. (48 entries)
The Islamic Golden Age — 750–1258: Baghdad's House of Wisdom, algebra, optics and the canon of medicine — five centuries of learning that ended when the Mongols came. (64 entries)
Renaissance — Europe rediscovers art, science and itself. (196 entries)
The Enlightenment — 1651–1804: dare to know — Newton's laws, Locke's rights, Voltaire's wit and Kant's critiques, argued out in salons and a 28-volume Encyclopédie. (97 entries)
Industrial Revolution — Steam, steel and the machines that made the modern world. (130 entries)
Age of Exploration — The voyages that stitched the world together. (109 entries)
British Empire — The empire on which the sun never set — rise, rule and retreat. (268 entries)
Slavery & Abolition — From Spartacus to the last emancipations: the systems that traded human beings, and the long fight that ended them. (117 entries)
The Silk Road & the Steppe — Horses, silk, faiths and hordes: five thousand years of the corridor between China and the West. (97 entries)
The Digital Revolution — 1936 to now: from Turing's paper machine to the phone in your pocket and the AI on it — the transistor, the web and everything they rewired. (52 entries)

Rulers & leaders

England: Monarchs — Every ruler of England in one unbroken line of succession. (111 entries)
UK: Prime Ministers — Every prime minister since Walpole, ministry by ministry. (110 entries)
USA: Presidents — Every US president, from Washington to the present day. (89 entries)
Rome: Emperors — Every emperor from Augustus to the end in the West. (39 entries)
The Habsburg Dynasty — One family, six centuries: from a Swiss castle to world empire — the marriages, wars and Vienna of the House of Habsburg. (214 entries)
The Papacy — Two thousand years of the world's oldest institution — from Peter's crucifixion to the conclaves of the present day. (128 entries)

People & lives

People — The lives that shaped history, laid end to end. (952 entries)
Women in history — History through the lives and victories of women. (415 entries)

The ancient world

Ancient Egypt — Pharaohs, pyramids and three thousand years on the Nile. (66 entries)
Mesopotamia & the Ancient Near East — The first cities and the first writing — where history begins. (58 entries)
Ancient Greece — City-states, philosophers and the world they argued into being. (223 entries)
Troy: Iliad & Odyssey — Ten years of war and ten of wandering, as Homer sang them. (68 entries)
Roman History — Rome from village to empire to fall. (370 entries)
Rome: Emperors — Every emperor from Augustus to the end in the West. (39 entries)
Persia and Iran — Persia and Iran, from Cyrus the Great to the present. (151 entries)
Pre-Columbian Americas — The Americas before 1492 — Maya, Aztec, Inca and more. (111 entries)

For school

Medicine through Time — The GCSE syllabus, c.1250 to the present, on one zoomable line. (107 entries)
BBC Bitesize (revision guides) — BBC Bitesize revision guides, pinned to their periods. (10 entries)

Books, podcasts & museums

Resources: Combined — Podcasts, books, films, documentaries, videos, museum objects and revision guides mapped onto history, in one feed. (2189 entries)
The Rest Is History (podcast) — The Rest Is History's back catalogue, mapped onto the events themselves. (711 entries)
Popular history books — History's best books, shelved by the centuries they cover. (326 entries)
British Museum — A hundred objects from the British Museum, in the context of everything. (100 entries)
BBC Bitesize (revision guides) — BBC Bitesize revision guides, pinned to their periods. (10 entries)
In Our Time (BBC podcast) — Melvyn Bragg's In Our Time archive, mapped to the moments it explores. (471 entries)
Documentaries — The great history documentaries, placed at the periods they cover. (81 entries)
Historical films — Films of real events, sitting where the events actually happened. (60 entries)
History on YouTube — The best history on YouTube, pinned to the past it explains. (326 entries)
Heritage Minutes (Canada) — Historica Canada's sixty-second dramas — a minute of Canadian history at a time. (104 entries)

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