oneworldtimeline

What was happening everywhere else?

Most history is taught one country at a time. Drag through five thousand years and read a single moment across ten world regions at once — each event with its sources.

1492
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N. America
Europe
Central Asia
E. Asia
W. Asia
N. Africa
S. Asia
C./S. America
Sub-Sahara
Oceania

In 1492 — Construction of the Badaling Section of the Great Wall 1501 · E. Asia·Ottoman–Mamluk War of 1516–17 1516 · N. Africa·Beginning of the Renaissance 1301 · Europe·Outbreak of the Byzantine–Ottoman wars 1265 · W. Asia

5,146events
10world regions
9600 BC2000period covered
3languages

Read history sideways

A textbook moves through one place at a time: first Rome, then China, then the Americas. You finish knowing each thread, and still cannot say what the others were doing on the same afternoon.

This is a synchronological chart — ten parallel bands, one per world region, time running left to right. Put the cursor on a year and every band answers at once.

Start from a year

Pick a moment and see the whole world at it, not just the part your textbook covered.

1776Adoption of the United States Declaration of Independence14 events1789French Revolution10 events1848Revolutions of 184821 events1871Establishment of the Paris Commune20 events1945Potsdam Conference38 events1991Belovezh Accords33 events

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Every fact carries its source

Each event lists where it comes from — Wikidata, the language Wikipedias, and for World Heritage sites the UNESCO listing itself. You can check any claim without leaving the page.

Dates that are only known to a century are shown as a century, not a false exact year. Where a location is schematic rather than a precise site, the map says so.