About This Site

This site was created as a visual reference of historical world events. Like other wikis, it is up to the public to develop this into a useful resource. Thank you for visiting!

Generally:
This is an easily editable timeline of any type of history anyone decides to submit. Anyone can edit the timeline, and anyone can revise old entries. A history of past entries is stored.

Each event on the timeline can store details about that event, a sub-timeline of events, and relevant links to other sources of information.

Technically:
The timeline is database-driven and a visual version dynamically created each time a view request is made. This means that all events are searchable, the visualization can be customized, and events are easy to add and modify.

CSS is used to lay out the timeline on the page. It is not one large image but many <DIV> and <A> tags, one for each event, and one for each blank section.

Site best viewed with Mozilla Firefox.

1 known viewing problem with Internet Explorer - single-day-events sometimes do not appear on timeline.

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