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This timescale is dependent on the events in the timeline. A <a href="/wiki/Timeline_of_evolution" class="mw-redirect" title="Timeline of evolution">timeline of evolution</a> can be over millions of years, whereas a <a href="/wiki/Timeline_for_the_day_of_the_September_11_attacks" title="Timeline for the day of the September 11 attacks">timeline for the day of the September 11 attacks</a> can take place over minutes, and that of an explosion over milliseconds.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> While many timelines use a linear timescale—especially where very large or small timespans are relevant -- <a href="/wiki/Logarithmic_timeline" title="Logarithmic timeline">logarithmic timelines</a> entail a <a href="/wiki/Logarithmic_number_system" title="Logarithmic number system">logarithmic</a> scale of time; some "hurry up and wait" chronologies are depicted with <a href="/wiki/Zoom_lens" title="Zoom lens">zoom lens</a> <a href="/wiki/Visual_metaphor" title="Visual metaphor">metaphors</a>. </p><p>More usually, "timeline" refers merely to a data set which could be displayed as described above. For example, this meaning is used in the titles of many Wikipedia articles starting "Timeline of ..." </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="History">History</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Timeline&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: History"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><a href="/wiki/Time#Spatial_conceptualization" title="Time">Time and space</a> (particularly the line) are intertwined concepts in human thought. The line is ubiquitous in clocks in the form of a circle, time is spoken of in terms of length, intervals, a before and an after.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The idea of orderly, segmented time is also represented in almanacs, calendars, charts, graphs, genealogical and evolutionary trees, where the line is central.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Originally, chronological events were arranged in a mostly textual form. This took form in <a href="/wiki/Annals" title="Annals">annals</a>, like <a href="/wiki/Regnal_list" title="Regnal list">king lists</a>. Alongside them, the <a href="/wiki/Table_(information)" title="Table (information)">table</a> was used like in the Greek tables of Olympiads and Roman lists of consuls and triumphs.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Annals had little <a href="/wiki/Narrative#Historiography" title="Narrative">narrative</a> and noted what happened to people, making no distinction between natural and human actions.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In Europe, from the 4th century, the dominant chronological notation was the table. This can be partially credited to <a href="/wiki/Eusebius" title="Eusebius">Eusebius</a>, who laid out the relations between Jewish, pagan, and Christian histories in parallel columns, culminating in the Roman Empire, according to the Christian view when Christ was born to spread salvation as far as possible. His work was widely copied and was among the first printed books. This served the idea of Christian world history and providential time. The table is easy to produce, append, and read with indices, so it also fit the <a href="/wiki/Renaissance" title="Renaissance">Renaissance</a> scholars' absorption of a wide variety of sources with its focus on commonalities. These uses made the table with years in one column and places of events (kingdoms) on the top the dominant visual structure of time.<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>By the 17th century, historians had started to claim that chronology and geography were the two sources of precise information which bring order to the chaos of history.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (January 2024)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup><sup class="noprint Inline-Template" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Accuracy_dispute#Disputed_statement" title="Wikipedia:Accuracy dispute"><span title="The material near this tag is possibly inaccurate or nonfactual. (January 2024)">dubious</span></a> – <a href="/wiki/Talk:Timeline#Dubious_claim" title="Talk:Timeline">discuss</a></i>]</sup> In geography, Renaissance mapmakers updated Ptolemy's maps and the map became a symbol of the power of monarchs, and knowledge. Likewise, the idea that a singular chronology of world history from contemporary sources is possible affected historians. The want for precision in chronology gave rise to adding historical eclipses to tables, like in the case of <a href="/wiki/Gerardus_Mercator" title="Gerardus Mercator">Gerardus Mercator</a>.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (January 2024)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> Various graphical experiments emerged, from fitting the whole of history on a calendar year to series of historical drawings, in the hopes of making a metaphorical map of time.<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Developments in printing and engraving that made practical larger and more detailed book illustrations allowed these changes, but in the 17th century, the table with some modifications continued to dominate.<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The modern timeline emerged in <a href="/wiki/Joseph_Priestley" title="Joseph Priestley">Joseph Priestley</a>'s <i><a href="/wiki/A_Chart_of_Biography" title="A Chart of Biography">A Chart of Biography</a></i>, published in 1765.<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It presented dates simply and provided an analogue for the concept of historical progress that was becoming popular in the 18th century. However, as Priestley recognized, history is not totally linear. The table has the advantage in that it can present many of these intersections and branching paths. For Priestley, its main use was a "mechanical help to the knowledge of history", not as an image of history. Regardless, the timeline had become very popular during the 18th and 19th centuries. <a href="/wiki/Positivism" title="Positivism">Positivism</a> emerged in the 19th century and the development of <a href="/wiki/Chronophotography" title="Chronophotography">chronophotography</a> and <a href="/wiki/Dendrochronology" title="Dendrochronology">tree ring analysis</a> made visible time taking place at various speeds. This encouraged people to think that events might be truly objectively recorded.<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>However, in some cases, filling in a timeline with more data only pushed it towards impracticality. <a href="/wiki/Jacques_Barbeu-Dubourg" title="Jacques Barbeu-Dubourg">Jacques Barbeu-Duborg</a>'s 1753 <i>Chronologie Universelle</i> was mounted on a 54-feet-long (16½ m) scroll. <a href="/wiki/Charles_Joseph_Minard" title="Charles Joseph Minard">Charles Joseph Minard</a>'s 1869 <a href="/wiki/Thematic_map" title="Thematic map">thematic map</a> of casualties of the French army in its Russian campaign put much less focus on the one-directional line. <a href="/wiki/Charles_Renouvier" title="Charles Renouvier">Charles Renouvier</a>'s 1876 <i>Uchronie</i>, a branching map of the history of Europe, depicted both the actual course of history and <a href="/wiki/Counterfactual_history" title="Counterfactual history">counterfactual</a> paths. At the end of the 19th century, <a href="/wiki/Henri_Bergson" title="Henri Bergson">Henri Bergson</a> declared the metaphor of the timeline to be deceiving in <i><a href="/wiki/Time_and_Free_Will" title="Time and Free Will">Time and Free Will</a></i>.<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The question of <a href="/wiki/Big_History" title="Big History">big history</a> and <a href="/wiki/Deep_time" title="Deep time">deep time</a> engendered estranging forms of the timeline, like in <a href="/wiki/Olaf_Stapledon" title="Olaf Stapledon">Olaf Stapledon</a>'s 1930 work <i><a href="/wiki/Last_and_First_Men" title="Last and First Men">Last and First Men</a></i> where timelines are drawn on scales from the historical to the cosmological. Similar techniques are used by the <a href="/wiki/Long_Now_Foundation" title="Long Now Foundation">Long Now Foundation</a>, and the difficulties of chronological representation have been presented by visual artists including <a href="/wiki/Francis_Picabia" title="Francis Picabia">Francis Picabia</a>, <a href="/wiki/On_Kawara" title="On Kawara">On Kawara</a>, <a href="/wiki/Jean_Ignace_Isidore_G%C3%A9rard_Grandville" class="mw-redirect" title="Jean Ignace Isidore Gérard Grandville">J. J. Grandville</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Saul_Steinberg" title="Saul Steinberg">Saul Steinberg</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Types">Types</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Timeline&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Types"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>There are different types of timelines: </p> <ul><li>Text timelines, labeled as text</li> <li>Number timelines, the labels are numbers, commonly <a href="/wiki/Line_graph" title="Line graph">line graphs</a></li> <li>Interactive, clickable, zoomable</li> <li>Video timelines</li></ul> <p>There are many methods to visualize timelines. Historically, timelines were static images and were generally drawn or printed on paper. Timelines relied heavily on <a href="/wiki/Graphic_design" title="Graphic design">graphic design</a>, and the ability of the artist to visualize the data. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Uses">Uses</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Timeline&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Uses"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/List_of_timelines" title="List of timelines">List of timelines</a></div> <p>Timelines are often used in education<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> to help students and researchers with understanding the order or chronology of historical events and trends for a subject. To show time on a specific scale on an axis, a timeline can visualize time lapses between events, durations (such as lifetimes or wars), and the simultaneity or the overlap of spans and events. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="In_historical_studies">In historical studies</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Timeline&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: In historical studies"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Timelines are particularly useful for studying history, as they convey a sense of change over time. Wars and social movements are often shown as timelines. Timelines are also useful for <a href="/wiki/Biography" title="Biography">biographies</a>. 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Timelines help team members know what <a href="/wiki/Milestone_(project_management)" title="Milestone (project management)">milestones</a> need to be achieved and under what time schedule. An example is establishing a project timeline in the implementation phase of the <a href="/wiki/Systems_development_life-cycle" class="mw-redirect" title="Systems development life-cycle">life cycle of a computer system</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Software">Software</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Timeline&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Software"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Timelines (no longer constrained by previous space and functional limitations) are now digital and interactive, generally created with computer software. <a href="/wiki/Encarta" title="Encarta">Microsoft Encarta</a> encyclopedia provided one of the earliest multimedia timelines intended for students and the general public. <a href="/wiki/ChronoZoom" title="ChronoZoom">ChronoZoom</a> is another examplespa of interactive timeline software. </p> <div 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project for visualizing the timeline of Big History</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Detailed_logarithmic_timeline" title="Detailed logarithmic timeline">Detailed logarithmic timeline</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_timelines" title="List of timelines">List of timelines</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Living_graph" title="Living graph">Living graph</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Logarithmic_timeline" title="Logarithmic timeline">Logarithmic timeline</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Many-worlds_interpretation" title="Many-worlds interpretation">Many-worlds interpretation</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sequence_of_events" class="mw-redirect" title="Sequence of events">Sequence of events</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Synchronoptic_view" title="Synchronoptic view">Synchronoptic view</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Timecode" title="Timecode">Timecode</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Timestream" title="Timestream">Timestream</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Timelines_of_world_history" title="Timelines of world 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timekeeping">Chinese</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Decimal_time" title="Decimal time">Decimal</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hexadecimal_time" title="Hexadecimal time">Hexadecimal</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hindu_units_of_time" title="Hindu units of time">Hindu</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Metric_time" title="Metric time">Metric</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Roman_timekeeping" title="Roman timekeeping">Roman</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sidereal_time" title="Sidereal time">Sidereal</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Solar_time" title="Solar time">Solar</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Time_zone" title="Time zone">Time zone</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:6.5em;font-weight:normal; text-align:center;"><a href="/wiki/Calendar" title="Calendar">Calendars</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Calendar#Systems" title="Calendar">Main types</a> <ul><li><a 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style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Astronomical_chronology" title="Astronomical chronology">Astronomical chronology</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Big_History" title="Big History">Big History</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Calendar_era" title="Calendar era">Calendar era</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Deep_time" title="Deep time">Deep time</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Periodization" title="Periodization">Periodization</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Regnal_year" title="Regnal year">Regnal year</a></li> <li><a class="mw-selflink selflink">Timeline</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Philosophy_of_space_and_time" title="Philosophy of space and time">Philosophy of time</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/A_series_and_B_series" title="A series and B series">A series and B series</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/B-theory_of_time" title="B-theory of time">B-theory of time</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chronocentrism" title="Chronocentrism">Chronocentrism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Duration_(philosophy)" title="Duration (philosophy)">Duration</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Endurantism" title="Endurantism">Endurantism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Eternal_return" title="Eternal return">Eternal return</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Eternalism_(philosophy_of_time)" title="Eternalism (philosophy of time)">Eternalism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Event_(philosophy)" title="Event (philosophy)">Event</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Perdurantism" title="Perdurantism">Perdurantism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Philosophical_presentism" title="Philosophical presentism">Presentism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Temporal_finitism" title="Temporal finitism">Temporal finitism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Temporal_parts" title="Temporal parts">Temporal parts</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Unreality_of_Time" title="The Unreality of Time">The Unreality of Time</a></i></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><div class="hlist"><ul><li><a href="/wiki/Category:Time_in_religion" title="Category:Time in religion">Religion</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Template:Time_in_religion_and_mythology" title="Template:Time in religion and mythology">Mythology</a></li></ul></div></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Ages_of_Man" title="Ages of Man">Ages of Man</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Destiny" title="Destiny">Destiny</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Immortality" title="Immortality">Immortality</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_Dreaming" title="The Dreaming">Dreamtime</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/K%C4%81la" title="Kāla">Kāla</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Time_and_fate_deities" title="Time and fate deities">Time and fate deities</a> 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