List of timelines

Source: Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

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

History

Women in history

Arts

Biographical

Contemporary culture

Entertainment

Comic books

Crime

Disasters

Economics

Environment

Fictional timelines of history

Peoples, nations, cultures and geographical

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

Buddhism

Christianity

Hinduism

Islam

Jainism

Judaism

Sikhism

Science

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.

  • 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

    Astronautics and planetary science

    Astronomy, astrophysics, and cosmology

    Biology

    Chemistry

    Environmental sciences

    Meteorology

    Geology and paleontology

    Mathematics and statistics

    Physiology, medicine, and health

    Physics

    Psychology

    Sports

    Technology

    Communication and information media

    Computers and related technology

    Everyday necessities

    Light and optical instruments

    Measurement

    General mechanical engineering

    Transportation and space exploration

    Miscellaneous

    Terrorism

    See also

    External links