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Timeline

Five thousand years of traditions, dynasties, figures, events, sites and texts on one axis.

  • 13,494 historical dates
  • 402 dates of a source
  • 0 inside a story
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Six lanes, three clocks, one axis.

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Period

Collections

Historical date

13,494 dated

What happened, or is attested, then — lives, reigns, events, buildings and the inceptions traditions are credited with.

Traditions 1,097 dated

none dated in this age

Zoroastrianism Mosaic Judaism Nyaya Buddhism Judaism Jainism Essenes Catholic Church Christianity Coptic Orthodox Church Sethianism Manichaeism Buddhism in Japan Sunni Islam Islam Catholicism Eastern Orthodox Church flagellant Russian Orthodox Church Sikhism Protestantism Lutheranism Reformed Christianity Church of England Din-e Ilahi Haitian Vodou Hasidic Judaism Rahmaniyya Reform Judaism Conservative Judaism The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints Baháʼí Faith Jehovah's Witnesses Ahmadiyya Ramakrishna Math True Jesus Church Wicca

Houses dynasties and lineages 235 dated

none dated in this age

First Dynasty of Egypt Second Dynasty of Egypt Third Dynasty of Egypt Fourth Dynasty of Egypt Fifth Dynasty of Egypt Xia dynasty Eleventh Dynasty of Egypt Third Dynasty of Ur Tenth Dynasty of Egypt Shang dynasty Eighteenth Dynasty of Egypt Kassites Nineteenth Dynasty of Egypt Twentieth Dynasty of Egypt Twenty-fifth Dynasty of Egypt Imperial House of Japan Chola dynasty Qin dynasty Han dynasty Hasmonean dynasty Xin dynasty Sasanian dynasty Jin dynasty Liu Song dynasty Chalukya dynasty Tang dynasty Bagrationi dynasty Goryeo Almoravid dynasty Zengid dynasty Timurid dynasty Joseon Taungoo dynasty Shaybanids Safavid dynasty House of Farnese Saadi dynasty House of Romanov Konbaung dynasty Qajar dynasty Nguyen dynasty House of Bernadotte House of Glücksburg House of Windsor Mountbatten family Pahlavi dynasty House of Romania

Figures 3,713 dated

none dated in this age

Enmerkar Imhotep Abraham in Islām Zoroaster Amenhotep, son of Hapu Kashyapa Moses in Islam Hattusili III Khaemweset Dhu'l-Kifl Omri Ahab Jehoram The Buddha Mahavira Confucius Alexander the Great Manetho Mahinda Cicero Hillel the Elder Jesus Christ Paul the Apostle Nagarjuna Geta Mani Faxian Jerome Augustine of Hippo Clovis I Bodhidharma Unknown Archon Muhammad Alī ibn Abī Ṭālib Xuanzang Penda of Mercia Kūkai Ādi Shankara Ragnar Lodbrok Rollo Olga of Kiev Sviatoslav I of Kiev Vladimir the Great Rashi Abraham ibn Ezra Qiu Chuji Genghis Khan Dōgen Thomas Aquinas Hafez Jan Hus Joan of Arc Kabir Guru Nanak Martin Luther John Calvin Akbar Guru Arjan Mulla Sadra Guru Hargobind Yamazaki Ansai Guru Har Krishan Guru Gobind Singh Tsangyang Gyatso Baal Shem Tov Gaon of Vilnius Kamehameha I Alexander I of Russia Shamil Marie Laveau Dalai Lama 09 Lungtok Gyatso Abdelkader El Djezairi Ramakrishna Swami Vivekananda Abraham Isaac Kook Tenzin Gyatso Pope Francis Fethullah Gülen Alexander Bard Anwar al-Awlaki His Holiness the 17th Gyalwang Karmapa Orgyen Trinley Dorje

Events councils, schisms, wars, trials 457 dated

none dated in this age

Council of Jerusalem Yellow Turban Rebellion Diocletianic Persecution First Council of Nicaea Council of Chalcedon Acacian schism Synod of Whitby Third Council of Constantinople Reconquista Second Council of Nicaea East-West Schism Crusades First Crusade Fifth Crusade Seventh Crusade Western Schism Hussite Wars Protestant Reformation Leipzig Debate Marburg Colloquy Council of Trent Uppsala Synod Thirty Years' War Synod of Dort Westminster Assembly Salem Witch Trials 1700 papal conclave 1724 papal conclave 1730 papal conclave Our Lady of Ortiga Synod of Pistoia 1799–1800 papal conclave Synod of Qarqafe LDS succession crisis Holy War of the Seven Khojas Lourdes apparitions First Vatican Council 1903 conclave 1914 conclave 1922 conclave 1939 conclave Rosa Mystica Second Vatican Council Our Lady of Zeitoun Our virgen de katy Synod of 1980 2013 conclave 2018 Moscow–Constantinople schism 2025 conclave 2026 Écône consecrations

Sites buildings and places, by their recorded dates 4,977 dated

none dated in this age

Jerusalem Ur Thebes Uruk Babylon Mycenae Troy Great Pyramid of Giza Assur Nazareth Nippur Serabit el-Khadim Rhodes Valley of the Kings Abu Simbel Temple of Khonsu Ephesus Medina Carthage Petra Pompeii Parthenon Takht-e Soleyman Western Wall Bagan Pantheon Constantinople Church of the Holy Sepulchre Chichen Itza Hagia Sophia Itsukushima Shrine Lhasa Kaaba Borobudur Temple Qom Mashhad Prambanan Temple Mosque of Ibn Tulun Banteay Srei Prahadisvarar Temple Cahokia Tower of London Angkor Wat Notre-Dame de Paris Leaning Tower of Pisa Old New Synagogue Templo Mayor Temple of Heaven Machu Picchu Sistine Chapel Tomb of Askia Jerónimos Monastery St. Peter's Basilica Old Goa Novodevichy Convent Amritsar Apostolic Palace Harmandir Sahib Akal Takht Sultan Ahmed Mosque Nikkō Tōshō-gū Wat Arun Jama Masjid, Delhi Badshahi Mosque St Paul's Cathedral Portuguese Synagogue Paro Taktsang Church of Our Lady Panthéon Blue Mosque Wat Phra Kaew Wat Pho Rongbuk Monastery Wat Suthat Kalighat Kali Temple Stadttempel La Madeleine Dakshineswar Kali Temple Dohány Street Synagogue New Synagogue Berlin Yasukuni Shrine Basilica and Expiatory Church of the Holy Family Great Mosque of Djenné Wat Benchamabophit Christ the Redeemer Vatican City Takht Sri Patna Sahib Erawan Shrine Lotus Temple Faisal Mosque Cathedral of Christ the Saviour Akshardham Sheikh Zayed Mosque Quba Mere Diwane Ram Mandir

Date of the source

402 dated

When a work was composed, copied or printed. Not when the events it describes are said to have happened.

Texts 360 dated

none dated in this age

Song of the hoe Epic of Gilgamesh Baal Cycle Atra-Hasis Book of Gates Vedas Iliad Aitareya Brahmana Works and Days Theogony Book of Ruth The Republic Lindos Chronicle Aeneid New Testament Amitabha Sutra Babylonian Talmud Avesta Record of Buddhist Kingdoms Gospel of Pseudo-Matthew Qur’an Kojiki Diamond Sutra Ynglingatal Bogurodzica Shahnameh The Tale of Genji Chennakesava Temple Lex Mahumet pseudoprophete Tripitaka Koreana Poetic Edda The Divine Comedy Le Morte d'Arthur Hanuman Chalisha Nun komm, der Heiden Heiland Gelobet seist du, Jesu Christ Pardes Rimonim Es ist ein Ros entsprungen Don Quixote Macbeth Paradise Lost Den blomstertid nu kommer Dream of the Red Chamber Qianlong Dazangjing Hark! The Herald Angels Sing Großer Gott, wir loben dich Ramakien Les Misérables Kalevala Book of Mormon Doctrine and Covenants Kalevipoeg Kitáb-i-Aqdas Lāčplēsis Parable of the Friend at Night Assemblies of God Assumption of Mary Dune Jesus Christ Superstar Sutta Nipāta Gospel of Jesus' Wife The Da Vinci Code

Time within the story

0 dated

Time inside a story. It has no historical counterpart, and comparing the two is the mistake this chart exists to prevent.

None yet. A zero, which means none, rather than a missing row, which would mean nobody measured: time inside a story is an editorial record, and the structured data imported here has no equivalent.

  • historical date date of the source time within the story
  • certain
  • the range a coarse or derived date could occupy
  • no recorded end
  • the source hedged
  • archaeological site, not a sacred place
  • 383 of the 457 dated events are in Christianity: the lane takes each collection in turn, so a thin stretch elsewhere is a gap in the record, not a quiet century
  • 12,480 records carry no date at all and are not drawn

Anonymous Chinese painter of the Western Han period · Public domain

Selected record

Confucius

Figure · East Asian traditions

5th-century BCE Chinese philosopher and politician

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Its dates, clock by clock

  1. Historical date on the chart c. 551 BCE – c. 479 BCE
  2. Date of the source on the chart None recorded
  3. Time within the story on the chart None recorded

Each date is on its own clock. None is ever read as another.

What else was there, then.

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Collection

Selected moment

Around 500 BCE

550 BCE – 450 BCE · historical date
East Asian traditions 317 of 1,007 dated · records from 14000 BCE to 2013 CE
1 figure · 1 tradition 6 more possibly
Anatolia and the ancient Balkans 11 of 156 dated · records from 7000 BCE to 264 BCE
1 place 7 more possibly
Mesopotamia and the Levant 44 of 247 dated · records from 6000 BCE to 1982 CE
1 figure · 3 places · 1 other record 8 more possibly
Ancient Egypt 62 of 377 dated · records from 4000 BCE to 1999 CE
1 place 20 more possibly
Judaism 1,012 of 1,562 dated · records from 4000 BCE to 2022 CE
1 tradition · 1 place 16 more possibly
Christianity 6,923 of 8,680 dated · records from 4000 BCE to 2026 CE
1 figure 65 more possibly
Islam 1,604 of 2,177 dated · records from 4000 BCE to 2026 CE
nothing certain 29 more possibly
Greek and Roman 123 of 2,123 dated · records from 3000 BCE to 2015 CE
20 places · 1 other record 27 more possibly
South Asian traditions 213 of 1,718 dated · records from 2000 BCE to 2020 CE
3 figures · 1 tradition 3 more possibly
Iranian traditions 36 of 94 dated · records from 1500 BCE to 2019 CE
7 figures 6 more possibly
Buddhist traditions 921 of 1,943 dated · records from 1000 BCE to 2023 CE
5 figures · 1 tradition 3 more possibly
Mesoamerica and the Andes 17 of 287 dated · records from 100 CE to 1697 CE
nothing certain 1 more possibly
Nothing dated

Norse and Germanic · Celtic, Slavic and Baltic · Steppe, Siberia and the Arctic · Native North America · African traditions · Oceania and Australia

Abraham Ortelius · Public domain

The whole of history, on one canvas.

HistorIQly Timeline is the family's general history canvas: eleven thousand years of empires, wars and figures on one pannable surface. This page keeps to the dates in this collection, and to keeping the three clocks apart.

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