List of timelines


This is a list of timelines currently on Wikipedia.

Overview

There are several types of timeline articles.
  • Timelines by topic 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

History

Disasters

Fictional timelines of history

Peoples, nations, cultures and geographical

Politics

Religion

Ayyavazhi

Buddhism

Hinduism

Islam

Jainism

Sikhism

Science

Image:Cosmic Calendar.png|thumb|right|550px|upright=2.0|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.

Anthropology

Environmental sciences

Psychology

Technology

Everyday necessities

Light and optical instruments

Measurement

General mechanical engineering

Terrorism