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.