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Timeline: A Visual History of Our World is a children's picture book by Belgian author Peter Goes that was published by Gecko Press in 2015. It illustrates the timeline of the world's events from the prehistoric eras to the present, spanning the Big Bang theory, Medieval Europe, civilizations, and the 2010s.
Numerous tables and references document significant figures shown on the nation streams, such as significant poets, historians, and literary works, which are noted in coloured scrolls near the top of the chart. For example, entries for Joan of Arc, the invention of gunpowder, and the change in navigation with the invention of the compass.
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 ...
A timeline is a list of events displayed in chronological order. [1] It is typically a graphic design showing a long bar labelled with dates paralleling it, and usually contemporaneous events. Timelines can use any suitable scale representing time, suiting the subject and data; many use a linear scale, in which a unit of distance is equal to a ...
1491: Columbus sets sail aboard the Niña, Pinta, and Santa Maria. 1492: Columbus reaches the Bahamas, [5] Cuba and Hispaniola.; 1492: La Navidad is established on the island of Hispaniola; it was destroyed by the following year.
A chronicle (Latin: chronica, from Greek χρονικά chroniká, from χρόνος, chrónos – "time") is a historical account of events arranged in chronological order, as in a timeline. Typically, equal weight is given for historically important events and local events, the purpose being the recording of events that occurred, seen from ...
Christopher Lloyd (born 1 April 1968 [citation needed]) is a historian, educationalist and author on Big History.He is the author of What on Earth Happened: The Complete Story of the Planet (Bloomsbury, 2008) [1], which has sold 500,000 copies.
This clickable timeline template, wikilinked to over 30 Wikipedia articles, translated into over 25 languages, edited by over 40 editors, transcluded to over 120 articles, was originally derived from {{Life timeline}} for inclusion in the article "Timeline of human evolution".