Timeline — a visual atlas of history

Timeline

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Field notes

World map + time dial

The “Google Earth of history” answer to “I see 1776 and can’t imagine the world.” Drag the index along the bottom rail and every border on the map moves with it.

Territories are real research data — 18 snapshots between 3000 BCE and 1994 — coloured by sovereign, the British Empire in its traditional atlas pink. Scroll to zoom, drag to pan, and click any territory to select it — the card that comes up can drill a core sample through everything that ever happened at that exact spot.

Snapshots: 3000 · 1000 · 323 BCE · 1 CE · 400 · 800 · 1000 · 1279 · 1492 · 1600 · 1715 · 1783 · 1815 · 1880 · 1914 · 1938 · 1960 · 1994. Border data: aourednik/historical-basemaps (GPL-3.0) — scholarly approximation, since historical borders are fuzzy and contested by nature.

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