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List of timelines

This is a list of timelines currently on Wikipedia.

Overview[edit]

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 yearsorTables 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[edit]

General[edit]

Prehistory[edit]

• 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[edit]

• Timeline of Philippine sovereignty
• Timeline of South Asian history

History, chronologically[edit]

Timeline of the far future (10,000 CE – ${\displaystyle 10^{10^{10^{56}}}}$)

Women in history[edit]

Arts[edit]

Biographical[edit]

Contemporary culture[edit]

Entertainment[edit]

Comic books[edit]

Crime[edit]

Disasters[edit]

Economics[edit]

Environment[edit]

• List of years in the environment and environmental sciences (1927 – present)
• Timeline of environmental history (15,000 BCE – present)
• Timeline of the New Zealand environment (10th century CE – present)
• Timeline of history of environmentalism (630s – present)

Weather and environmental disasters

• Lists of earthquakes by period
• List of tornado events by year
• List of wildfires

Life

• Timeline of the evolutionary history of life
• List of years in birding and ornithology
• List of years in paleontology (17th century – present)
  • 2024 in paleontology

Fictional timelines of history[edit]

• Timeline of Star Trek – multimedia science fiction series.

Peoples, nations, cultures and geographical[edit]

• Timeline of food
• Chronology of colonialism
• Timeline of country and capital changes
• Timeline of maritime migration and exploration
• Timeline of the European migrant crisis

Ancient civilizations[edit]

Extant civilizations[edit]

Supranational entities and regions, peoples[edit]

Sovereign states[edit]

Subnational regions and cities, narrow timelines[edit]

Health[edit]

Law[edit]

Military[edit]

Military conflicts[edit]

Philosophy[edit]

Politics[edit]

Religion[edit]

Ayyavazhi[edit]

• Timeline of Ayyavazhi history (1809–present)

Buddhism[edit]

• Timeline of Buddhism (563 BCE – present)

Christianity[edit]

Hinduism[edit]

• Timeline of Hinduism
• Timeline of Hindu texts

Islam[edit]

• Timeline of Islamic history (545–present)
• Timeline of the Muslim presence in the Iberian Peninsula

Jainism[edit]

• Timeline of Jainism

Judaism[edit]

Sikhism[edit]

• Sikh gurus (1469–1666)

Science[edit]

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 educationorpopular science.

Anthropology[edit]

• Timeline of human development

• Timeline of anthropology (1870–2020)
• Timeline of archaeology (1506 – present)

Astronautics and planetary science[edit]

Astronomy, astrophysics, and cosmology[edit]

Biology[edit]

Chemistry[edit]

Environmental sciences[edit]

• List of years in the environment and environmental sciences
  • 2024 in the environment and environmental sciences

Meteorology

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

Geology and paleontology[edit]

Mathematics and statistics[edit]

Physiology, medicine, and health[edit]

Physics[edit]

Psychology[edit]

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

Sports[edit]

Technology[edit]

• 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

Communication and information media[edit]

Library science

• Timeline of women in library science

Computers and related technology[edit]

Everyday necessities[edit]

• Timeline of agriculture and food technology (12,000 BCE – present)
• Timeline of clothing and textiles technology (50,000 BCE–1963)

Light and optical instruments[edit]

• 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[edit]

• Timeline of temperature and pressure measurement technology (1450–1930)
• Timeline of time measurement technology (270 BCE–present)

General mechanical engineering[edit]

• Timeline of motor and engine technology (c. 30–70 CE–present)
• Timeline of heat engine technology (Prehistory– present)
• History of robots (Ancient times – present)

Transportation and space exploration[edit]

Miscellaneous[edit]

Terrorism[edit]

• 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)

This list is incomplete; you can help by adding missing items. (August 2008)

See also[edit]

External links[edit]

• 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).

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