History, side by side

Events from every field of human activity, set against one another in time. Explore a topic, or put several on the same timeline.

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Politics and exploration
Empires reach outward, and the world rearranges around them.
Science and religion, 1500–1700
The Reformation and the Scientific Revolution unfold side by side.
Art, religion and the press
How printing reshaped what people read, believed and made.

Topics

Culture

Art 43 Baroque music 24 Calvinism 32 Counter-Reformation 34 Early Christianity 18 Huguenots 8 Humanism 24 Islamic Golden Age 26 Italian Renaissance 82 Jesuits 11 Judaism 38 Literature 66 Music 46 Papacy 59 Protestant Reformation 70 Religion 178 Siglo de Oro 18 The Bible 65 Writing 27

Figures

Albrecht von Wallenstein 11 Alexander the Great 24 Aristotle 35 Augustus 20 Bartolomé de las Casas 15 Christopher Columbus 15 Cicero 7 Cleopatra 5 Francis Drake 16 Francisco Pizarro 9 Gaius Marius 6 Gustavus Adolphus 9 Hannibal 9 Henry VIII 9 Hernán Cortés 17 Jesus of Nazareth 5 John Calvin 10 José de San Martín 3 Josephus 2 Julius Caesar 21 Kublai Khan 14 Leonardo da Vinci 17 Marco Polo 10 Mark Antony 13 Martin Luther 15 Napoleon Bonaparte 29 Pericles 8 Philip II of Macedon 10 Plato 3 Pompey 19 Simón Bolívar 3 Socrates 3 Sulla 9 The Gracchi 3 Toussaint Louverture 16 Zheng He 14

Knowledge

Archaeology 33 Exploration 55 Greek philosophy 42 Humanism 24 Science 40 Technology 31

Material culture

Peoples

Bronze Age Aegean 19 Canary Islands 10 Etruscans 13 Judaism 38 Sea Peoples 7 Taíno 22

Places

Al-Andalus 16 Brazil 20 Canary Islands 10 Catalonia 5 Chile 4 Cuba 29 Dominican Republic 25 Haiti 32 Hispaniola 75 Netherlands 32 New Spain 24 Peru 32 Portugal 47 Roman Judea 19 Spain 187 United Kingdom 70

Society

Dutch Revolt 18 Expansionism 105 Exploration 55 First Jewish-Roman War 12 French monarchy 83 French Revolution 30 Gallic Wars 3 Haitian independence debt 21 Haitian Revolution 25 House of Medici 25 Huguenots 8 Iberian Reconquista 11 Jesuits 11 Late Bronze Age 34 Mithridatic Wars 5 Napoleonic Wars 25 Papacy 59 Peloponnesian War 16 Persian Wars 19 Politics 349 Punic Wars 16 Religion 178 Religious persecution 26 Religious toleration 8 Silk Road and East-West contact 38 Slave trade 38 Thirty Years' War 81 War 232

States

Achaemenid Persia 43 Al-Andalus 16 Athens 71 Austrian Empire 25 Aztec Empire 14 Brazil 20 Byzantine Empire 10 Carthage 23 Catalonia 5 Chile 4 Cuba 29 Dominican Republic 25 Duchy of Savoy 6 Greek city-states 135 Haiti 32 Hasmonean kingdom 12 Hellenistic kingdoms 56 Herodian dynasty 11 Hittite Empire 13 Holy Roman Empire 92 Inca Empire 13 Macedon 43 Ming dynasty 14 Mongol Empire 27 Netherlands 32 New Kingdom Egypt 16 New Spain 24 Ottoman Empire 16 Peru 32 Portugal 47 Prussia 9 Ptolemaic Egypt 16 Roman Empire 28 Roman Judea 19 Roman Republic 139 Russian Empire 10 Seleucid Empire 17 Spain 187 Spanish American independence 8 Sparta 30 Thebes 11 United Kingdom 70

States/Places

Bohemia 22 Denmark 8 Electoral Palatinate 14 Hungary 3 Republic of Geneva 19 Sweden 22 Swiss Confederation 9

By era

Antiquity3000 BCE – 475 · 435
Middle Ages476 – 1499 · 226
Early Modern1500 – 1799 · 497
19th century1800 – 1899 · 93
1900s1900 – 1909 · 4
1910s1910 – 1919 · 6
1920s1920 – 1929 · 4
1930s1930 – 1939 · 8
1940s1940 – 1949 · 6
1950s1950 – 1959 · 4
1960s1960 – 1969 · 3
1970s1970 – 1979 · 1
2000s2000 – 2009 · 3
2010s2010 – 2019 · 2
2020s2020 – 2029 · 2