The galaxy far, far away from the first Jedi to the Legacy era, dated in years before and after the Battle of Yavin (BBY and ABY). Each moment is tagged by its continuity (canon, Legends, both for the original six films, or non-canon for V…
The Dune saga from the Butlerian Jihad to Sandworms of Dune: Frank Herbert's six novels and Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson's prequels and sequels, dated in years Before and After the Guild (BG and AG). Moments are tagged and colored b…
A biography of Abraham Lincoln, from his birth in a Kentucky cabin to his funeral train: the frontier, New Salem, the law, his family, his return to politics over slavery, the debates with Douglas, the presidency and the Civil War, emancip…
Ancient Egypt from its Predynastic cultures and its unification under Narmer to the death of Cleopatra VII and the Roman annexation in 30 BCE: its periods, dynasties and major reigns, its monuments, battles and treaties, and the writings w…
From the first farming villages, about 7000 BCE, through Uruk's first cities and writing, Sumer, Akkad, Ur, Hammurabi's Babylon, the Kassites and the Assyrian empires, to Nebuchadnezzar's Babylon and its fall to Cyrus in 539 BCE, with Alex…
A biography of George Washington on one line: his Virginia boyhood and surveying, the Virginia Regiment and the French and Indian War, Mount Vernon and the people enslaved there, the House of Burgesses, eight and a half years in command of…
Chinese history on one line: the Neolithic cultures, the Xia of tradition, the Shang and Zhou, the empire from Qin to Qing, and the Republic, to the founding of the People’s Republic on 1 October 1949, with two later milestones. Dynasties,…
The American Civil War with its causes and aftermath: the forty years of compromises and crises over slavery, secession and the founding of the Confederacy, the war in the East, the West and at sea, emancipation and the Black soldiers who …
The Great Depression in the United States and around the world: the boom of the 1920s and its cracks, the Crash of 1929 and the market's three-year fall, the banking panics, the European crisis and the end of the gold standard, the Hoover …
The COVID-19 pandemic worldwide, from the first reported cluster of pneumonia in Wuhan in December 2019 to the end of WHO’s public health emergency of international concern and of the US public health emergency in May 2023: WHO’s declarati…
The Second World War around the world, with the road to it from 1919 and its end in 1945–46: the war in China from 1937, the war in Europe from 1939, the Eastern Front, North Africa, the Pacific, the Holocaust, the conferences and the surr…
Ancient Rome from its legendary founding in 753 BCE through the kings, the Republic and the Empire, to the deposition of the last western emperor in 476 CE, with the Eastern Empire to the fall of Constantinople in 1453 as an epilogue: its …