What is a timeline?

Important words:

Timeline: a time line is a diagram that shows when events took place.
Decade: a period of ten years
Century: one hundred years
Millennium: one thousand years

Chronological order: a sequence of events arrnged from oldest to newest.

AD ‘Anno Domini’: Latin for ‘In the Year of Our Lord’
BC: Before Christ
BCE: ‘before Common Era’ instead of BC
CE: Common Era instead of AD
C. around
 Timeline?

Units of Horizontal
time or vertical

days, months,
years, decades,
centuries,
etc.)etc.).
Use of timeline
Astronomy

Geology
History

Project Time line

Wars

Biology
 A fast 'snapshot' of
time, people and
A graphic design events

Displaying events
Time line

Chronological sequence

Helps to understand how each event might

impact on another
 What is a time line?

A time line is a diagram that shows when events took place.

Time lines are read from left to right.

Benefits

Understand
quickly how
each event
might impact
on another
Plot events in a See possible
graphic way relationships

Help memory
Why should I learn how to read a time line?
To understand history, we need to know when things happened. We also
need to know in which order they happened. We can read history books and
other books for this information. But, sometimes it can be confusing to
understand what happened first and next!

Reading a time line can clear that confusion. A time line not only shows when
events took place, but it also shows the amount of time that passes between
events. In this way, a time line helps to give a sense of sequence, or order, to
history.
 A vertical or horizontal timeline?
When creating a timeline first choose the type of
line required
The timeline is usually created by drawing a line
from left to right, or bottom to top.
Creating a horizontal timeline - Recommended for
creating short span timelines
Creating a vertical timeline - Vertical timelines
which are drawn from bottom to top, allow
substantial in fact unlimited entries to be made.
Plot History on a Line
1- Give your timeline a heading.
2- Include what the timeline will show: personal events,
political events, events related to a geographic area, randomly
chosen events, and so on.
3- List the events in a chronology, a sequence of earliest to
latest.
4- What are the earliest and latest dates that you wish to
include
5- Choose the period of time that your timeline will cover .
6- Decide what units of time you will use (days, months, years,
decades, centuries, etc.).
7- Divide your timeline into segments or intervals.
8- Draw a line and divide it into the number of equal segments
or intervals.
9- Label the dates and write the events.
 Things you should follow when drawing a time line

Text should be clear The dates

must be
Establish the entered
total Time span sequentially
you need to
create Enter the most
significant dates
on the timeline
What is the start
and then provide
date of the
facts and
timeline?
information of
people or events

Determine the
What is the end date of the timeline?
style of line
required i.e.
horizontal or
vertical timeline
 Heading Still life timeline
This timeline covers a span
of 21 years

Horizontal timeline Wins US Open

Wins Wimbledon
Wins Davis Cup

Events Wins Adelaide Open

Born
Professional player

1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 2 2 2
9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 0 0 0
8 8 8 8 8 9 9 9 9 9 0 0 0
0 1 2 3 5 0 5 7 8 9 0 1 2

The end date of

The start date of the timeline
the timeline
Dates
Scale : 1 square = 1 year
Example 1
Hewitt’s life

Age event
1981 born
1997 professional player
1998 wins Adelaide Open
1999 wins Davis cup
2001 wins the US Open
2002 Wins Wimbledon

This timeline covers a span

of 21 years
Age event
1981 born Heading Hewitt’s life
This timeline covers a span
1997 professional player
of 21 years
1998 wins Adelaide Open
1999 wins Davis cup
2001 wins the US Open Horizontal timeline Wins US Open
2002 Wins Wimbledon
Wins Wimbledon
Wins Davis Cup

Events Wins Adelaide Open

Born
Professional player

1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 2 2 2
9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 0 0 0
8 8 8 8 8 9 9 9 9 9 0 0 0
0 1 2 3 5 0 5 7 8 9 0 1 2

The end date of

The start date of the timeline
the timeline
Dates
Scale : 1 square = 1 year
Age event
1981 born Heading Hewitt’s life
This timeline covers a span
1997 professional player
of 21 years
1998 wins Adelaide Open
1999 wins Davis cup
2001 wins the US Open Horizontal timeline Wins US Open
2002 Wins Wimbledon
Wins Wimbledon
Wins Davis Cup

Events Wins Adelaide Open

Born
Professional player

1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 2 2 2
9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 0 0 0
8 8 8 8 8 9 9 9 9 9 0 0 0
0 1 2 3 5 0 5 7 8 9 0 1 2

The end date of

The start date of the timeline
the timeline
Dates
Scale : 1 square = 1 year
 Age event
1981 born Heading 1- Give your timeline a heading.
1997 professional player
Hewitt’s life
1998 wins Adelaide Open 2- Include what the timeline will show
Personal events
1999 wins Davis cup
2001 wins the US Open 3- List the events in
2002 Wins Wimbledon a chronology

4- What are the earliest

Wins Wimbledon and latest dates that
you wish to include?
1980 and 2004
Wins US Open
5- Choose the period of time that
Wins Davis Cup
your timeline will cover .
Wins Adelaide Open This timeline covers a span of 21
years (From 1981 to 2002)

Born Professional player

6- Decide what units
of time you will
use :Years

7- Choose the scale for your timeline and divide it into

segments or intervals
Each square Scale: 1 unit=1 year
represents 1 year

8- Label the dates and write the events.

Example 2
Date event
1807 First steamboat
1825 First steam engine developed
1839 National road is built
1903 Wright brothers’ first flight
1908 Henry Ford made a car called
the Mode T
1928 Ford sold more than fifteen
million cars

scale : 1 unit = 10 years because This timeline covers a span of 130 years.
we have a long span of time From 1800 to 1950.
 This timeline covers a span
of 130 years.
From 1800 to 1930.
First
steamboat
Ford sold more
First steam engine
than fifteen
developed
million cars

National road
is built 1928
1807
1825 1839

Date event
1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1
1807 First steamboat
8 8 8 8 8 8 9 9 1825 First steam engine
0 1 2 3 4 9 0 3 developed

0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1839 National road is built

1903 Wright brothers’ first
flight

1908 Henry Ford made a

car called the Mode
T
Scale : 1 unit or 1 1928 Ford sold more than
square = 5 years fifteen million cars
 This timeline covers a span
of 130 years.
First From 1800 to 1930.
steamboat

First steam engine Ford sold more

developed than fifteen
million cars
National road
is built
1807 1825 1928
1839

Date event
1807 First steamboat
1825 First steam engine
developed

1839 National road is built

1903 Wright brothers’ first
flight

1908 Henry Ford made a

car called the Mode
T
Scale : 1 unit or 1 1928 Ford sold more than
square = 5 years fifteen million cars
Numeracy
in Visual
Arts
Example 3
Still Life Timeline

Name Year
German painter Albrecht 1502
Durer(Hare)
Jacopo de' Barbari(Dead Bird) (1504)
German artist Hans Holbein  (1523),
(Erasmus of Rotterdam)
Hans Holbein (Lady with a (1527–28);
Squirrel and a Starling)
Hans Holbein (The Merchant (1532
Georg Gisze)
Hans Holbein (The (1533).
Ambassadors)

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This timeline covers a span
of 21 years
 Still life This timeline covers a span of
Timeline 31 years.
From 1502 to 1533
1523
Hare
Erasmus of Rotterdam

1528
1502 Dead Bird Lady with a Squirrel
and a Starling
1504
1532 (The Merchant Georg Gisze)

1 11 1 1 1 Name Year
5 55 5 5 5 German painter Albrecht 1502
0 00 2 2 3 Durer(Hare)
0 24 3 8 2 Jacopo de' Barbari (Dead Bird) (1504)
German artist Hans Holbein  (1523)
(Erasmus of Rotterdam)

Hans Holbein (Lady with a (1528)

Squirrel and a Starling)
Sometimes Hans Holbein (The Merchant (1532)
there is a Georg Gisze)

Scale : 1 unit or 1 huge gap Hans Holbein (The (1533).

Ambassadors)
square = 4 years
By Zani Alam