No place recorded for this event
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Timeline Builder
Compressed scale gives recent events more room and squeezes ancient history closer together, instead of every year getting equal space — useful for a timeline spanning millennia.
Add a second (or more) track to compare related timelines stacked on the same year axis — e.g. a country's history vs. world history.
Broad periods like "Renaissance" shown as a shaded band behind the events, distinct from a single event's own range bar.
Events sharing a category are colored the same on the timeline, with a legend below it.
Pick a place from the list and the coordinates fill in for you, or type any place name and enter its own latitude and longitude. Events with a place get a numbered pin on the “Map + timeline” print; events without one just stay off the map.
Spreads the whole timeline — the spatial view above, not the print list — across full-size pages scaled to fill the grid you pick below, so it can be trimmed and taped together into one strip for a hallway wall. Pages overlap slightly at each edge to make lining them up easier. Uses whatever scale, line style, and category colors are currently set.
One landscape page: a map on top with a numbered pin at every event that has a place, and the timeline along the bottom carrying the same numbers — so students can read when something happened and where in one look. Events without a place stay on the timeline and off the map. The map is drawn from map data already on this device; nothing is downloaded.
The same timeline strip students have been looking at all unit, with some events replaced by numbered blanks, a word bank of the titles that were taken out, and a matching answer key. Ask for more than one version and each one blanks a different set of events, so two students side by side get different papers from one timeline.
th event along the strip
The timeline’s events with no dates on them, dealt out of order for students to put back in sequence — as cards to cut apart, or as a numbered list to write the order against. The dates are on the answer key, on a page of its own.