Timeline facts for kids
A timeline is a cool way to show a list of events exactly as they happened. This is called chronological order. Think of it like a story told in time! A timeline can be a simple list or a picture. Often, it looks like a long bar with dates and important events marked along it. But timelines can also have many other designs.
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Why Timelines Are Useful
Timelines are super helpful in schools. They help students and people studying history understand when things happened. They show the order of events for any topic. A timeline can also help you see how much time passed between events. It can show how long things lasted, like a person's life or a war. You can even see if events happened at the same time.
Timelines in History
Timelines are great for learning about history. They help us see how things changed over time. Big events like wars or important social movements are often shown on timelines. Timelines are also useful when you want to learn about someone's life story, which is called a biography.
Timelines for Projects
Another type of timeline is used for managing projects. These are important to help team members know what big steps, called milestones, need to be finished. A project timeline also shows the plan for when things should happen. For example, it can show the timeline for building a new computer system.
Images for kids
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A graphical timeline of the history of Taiwan
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ChronoZoom is an example of interactive, zoomable timeline software.
See also
In Spanish: Eje cronológico para niños
