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An illustrated atlas of time

The Chronicles of History

Illustrated timelines of civilisations and empires, from the Bronze Age to the twentieth century.

Begin in the Bronze Age

15 regions11 wars156 chronicles

Across time

Every history, side by side

  1. Egyptian History
  2. Iraqi History
  3. Ancient Levant
  4. Persian History
  5. Indian History
  6. Chinese History
  7. Japanese History
  8. Greek History
  9. Italian History
  10. British History
  11. German History
  12. French History
  13. Spanish History
  14. Russian History
  15. American History
  16. Global Conflicts
The scale widens at AD 1 and again at 1500 (dashed lines) so recent centuries have room.Bars touching the left edge begin before 3500 BC. A dashed bar marks an uncertain start.

The collection

Choose a region to begin

The Ancient Near East

South & East Asia

Europe

The Americas

Plate XVI · Global Conflicts

Wars that shaped the world

11 conflicts, from 499 BC to 1991, each told as its own chronicle.

  1. I · 499–449 BC50 yearsGreco-Persian Wars
  2. II · 431–404 BC27 yearsPeloponnesian War
  3. III · 336–323 BC13 yearsWars of Alexander the Great
  4. IV · 264–146 BC118 yearsPunic Wars
  5. V · 1337–1453116 yearsHundred Years' War
  6. VI · 1618–164830 yearsThirty Years' War
  7. VII · 1756–17637 yearsSeven Years' War
  8. VIII · 1803–181512 yearsNapoleonic Wars
  9. IX · 1914–19184 yearsWorld War I
  10. X · 1939–19456 yearsWorld War II
  11. XI · 1947–199144 yearsThe Cold War

The app · Android, iOS soon

Chronicon, in your pocket

Every chronicle from the website, rebuilt for the phone: scrub through the centuries with your thumb, bookmark the years you want to return to, and pick up where you left off.

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