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Help - Timeline
What is the Timeline?
The Timeline is a DHTML-based AJAXy widget for visualizing time-based events. It is like Google Maps for time-based information. The Key Events Timeline contains entries for events spanning the whole of world history. The Study Unit timelines contain events occurring in a fixed time period relating to a particular historical theme.
How do I get to the Timeline?
You can get to the Key Events Timeline from the Home Page or the Study Units search/browse page. Other, more specific timelines are accessible from the relevant Study Unit pages.
What can I do on the Timeline page?
Once the Timeline has loaded you will be presented with time bands which you can click and drag horizontally to access the timeline events (Note: you can also use the left and right cursor keys to pan each band).
Events that have a specific start and end date, like wars, are represented by a coloured bar the length of the event time span. Events which occur on a particular date are represented by a coloured bullet. Clicking on any of the above events will display the event details in a popup layer called an event bubble. Event bubbles include links to relevant Study Units.
Note: events on the Key Events Timeline are colour coded according to theme: blue for military, red for political, and green for social.
Below the timeline there are some further navigation aids to help access the years you are looking for:
To Center timeline by year - enter the year in the box provided and click the Go button. To access B.C. you must use minus symbol before the date.
To Center timeline by decade - click on the appropriate decade link.
To Center timeline by century - click on the appropriate century link.
Note: the decade and century options only appear when they are appropriate for the period covered by a particular timeline.
You can also print the timeline as it appears on screen, view a text-only version, or get a Durable URL for the page.