All timelines

Browse every Ever-When timeline — 59 lenses on history, from world history and country timelines to wars, religions, music and podcasts.

By place

United Kingdom (combined) — The four nations' shared story on one timeline. (796 entries)
England — England's story, from Roman Britain to today. (692 entries)
England: Monarchs — Every ruler of England in one unbroken line of succession. (75 entries)
Scotland — Scotland's story, from the Picts to devolution. (63 entries)
Wales — The history of Wales, from the ancient Britons to the Senedd. (51 entries)
Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland — Ireland north and south — plantation, famine, independence, peace. (71 entries)

France — Gauls, kings, revolutions and republics. (454 entries)
Germany — From the Holy Roman Empire to reunification. (319 entries)
Spain — Al-Andalus, Reconquista, empire and modern Spain. (149 entries)
Italy (post-476 CE) — From the fall of Rome to the Republic — Italy after antiquity. (151 entries)
Russia & the USSR — Rus, tsars, Soviets and after. (230 entries)
Roman History — Rome from village to empire to fall. (280 entries)
Rome: Emperors — Every emperor from Augustus to the end in the West. (25 entries)
Ancient Greece — City-states, philosophers and the world they argued into being. (144 entries)

Anatolia / Byzantium / Ottoman / Turkey — From Constantinople to Ankara — the empires of Anatolia. (171 entries)
Persia and Iran — Persia and Iran, from Cyrus the Great to the present. (102 entries)
The Levant — The crossroads of empires and faiths. (136 entries)
Mesopotamia & the Ancient Near East — The first cities and the first writing — where history begins. (49 entries)

Ancient Egypt — Pharaohs, pyramids and three thousand years on the Nile. (46 entries)
North Africa — Carthage to the Arab Spring, along Africa's Mediterranean shore. (74 entries)
Sub-Saharan Africa — Great kingdoms, trade empires and modern nations south of the Sahara. (151 entries)

China — Dynasties, revolutions and rebirth — China's four thousand years. (264 entries)
Japan — Emperors, shoguns and the road to modern Japan. (162 entries)
India — Empires, faiths and independence on the subcontinent. (259 entries)
Korea — Three kingdoms, one peninsula, two Koreas. (50 entries)
Southeast Asia — Khmer temples to modern tigers — Southeast Asia's story. (82 entries)
Mongol Empire — The largest land empire in history, at full gallop. (47 entries)

USA — From first peoples and thirteen colonies to superpower. (465 entries)
USA: Presidents — Every US president, from Washington to the present day. (58 entries)
Latin America — Conquest, liberation and modern Latin America. (191 entries)
Pre-Columbian Americas — The Americas before 1492 — Maya, Aztec, Inca and more. (77 entries)

Australia & the Pacific — Australia and the Pacific, from first peoples to today. (50 entries)

Master — All of history on one line — from the Big Bang to this morning. (6910 entries)
Arts and Thoughts — Art, ideas, books and breakthroughs that changed how we think. (1062 entries)
People — The lives that shaped history, laid end to end. (792 entries)

Science & Technology — Discoveries and inventions, from fire to AI. (165 entries)
Medicine & Public Health — The long fight against disease, from four humours to gene therapy. (65 entries)
Economic History — Money, trade, booms and crashes through the ages. (98 entries)

Arts and Thoughts — Art, ideas, books and breakthroughs that changed how we think. (1062 entries)
UK Popular Music — The soundtrack of Britain, decade by decade. (1855 entries)
UK No. 1 Singles — Every UK No. 1 single since the charts began in 1952. (1457 entries)

Renaissance — Europe rediscovers art, science and itself. (92 entries)
Industrial Revolution — Steam, steel and the machines that made the modern world. (92 entries)
Age of Exploration — The voyages that stitched the world together. (40 entries)

England: Monarchs — Every ruler of England in one unbroken line of succession. (75 entries)
USA: Presidents — Every US president, from Washington to the present day. (58 entries)
Rome: Emperors — Every emperor from Augustus to the end in the West. (25 entries)

People — The lives that shaped history, laid end to end. (792 entries)
Women in history — History through the lives and victories of women. (131 entries)

Ancient Egypt — Pharaohs, pyramids and three thousand years on the Nile. (46 entries)
Mesopotamia & the Ancient Near East — The first cities and the first writing — where history begins. (49 entries)
Ancient Greece — City-states, philosophers and the world they argued into being. (144 entries)
Roman History — Rome from village to empire to fall. (280 entries)
Rome: Emperors — Every emperor from Augustus to the end in the West. (25 entries)
Persia and Iran — Persia and Iran, from Cyrus the Great to the present. (102 entries)
Pre-Columbian Americas — The Americas before 1492 — Maya, Aztec, Inca and more. (77 entries)

Medicine through Time — The GCSE syllabus, c.1250 to the present, on one zoomable line. (73 entries)
BBC Bitesize (revision guides) — BBC Bitesize revision guides, pinned to their periods. (10 entries)

Resources: Combined — Every podcast, book and museum object we've mapped, in one feed. (750 entries)
The Rest Is History (podcast) — The Rest Is History's back catalogue, mapped onto the events themselves. (332 entries)
Popular history books — History's best books, shelved by the centuries they cover. (308 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)