Global History Chronology
Scroll through a synchronized horizontal history stream. Compare active wars side-by-side with the lifespan of historical empires to examine overlapping occurrences.
461 Years Gap3050 BC - 2589 BCClick to Expand
226 Years Gap2560 BC - 2334 BCClick to Expand
478 Years Gap2270 BC - 1792 BCClick to Expand
272 Years Gap1750 BC - 1478 BCClick to Expand
97 Years Gap1450 BC - 1353 BCClick to Expand
41 Years Gap1320 BC - 1279 BCClick to Expand
651 Years Gap1210 BC - 559 BCClick to Expand
84 Years Gap420 BC - 336 BCClick to Expand
59 Years Gap200 BC - 141 BCClick to Expand
29 Years Gap80 BC - 51 BCClick to Expand
141 Years Gap20 AD - 161 ADClick to Expand
126 Years Gap180 AD - 306 ADClick to Expand
187 Years Gap340 AD - 527 ADClick to Expand
56 Years Gap570 AD - 626 ADClick to Expand
118 Years Gap650 AD - 768 ADClick to Expand
42 Years Gap820 AD - 862 ADClick to Expand
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Leadership of Narmer
LK
Leadership of Khufu
LA
Leadership of Sargon of Akkad
LH
Leadership of Hammurabi
LH
Leadership of Hatshepsut
LA
Leadership of Akhenaten
LT
Leadership of Tutankhamun
LI
Leadership of Ramesses II
RF
Reign of Cyrus the Great & Persian Foundation
LC
Leadership of Cyrus the Great
AC
Achaemenid Empire under Cyrus
LD
Leadership of Darius the Great
LP
Leadership of Pericles
RE
Reign of Alexander the Great & Hellenistic Expansion
LA
Leadership of Alexander the Great
MA
Macedonian Empire under Alexander
LM
Leadership of Chandragupta Maurya
RE
Reign of Ashoka & Buddhist Edicts
LA
Leadership of Ashoka the Great
MA
Mauryan Empire under Ashoka
QU
Qin Shi Huang's Reign & Imperial Unification
LH
Leadership of Qin Shi Huang
QB
Qin Empire Borders
LH
Leadership of Emperor Wu of Han
RI
Reign of Cleopatra VII & Ptolemaic Independence
LV
Leadership of Cleopatra VII
PC
Ptolemaic Egypt under Cleopatra
JR
Julius Caesar's Dictatorship & End of Republic
RJ
Roman Republic under Julius Caesar
LJ
Leadership of Julius Caesar
RR
Reign of Caesar Augustus & The Pax Romana
LA
Leadership of Augustus
RA
Roman Empire under Augustus
RR
Reign of Marcus Aurelius & Stoic Rule
LC
Leadership of Constantine the Great
RR
Reign of Justinian & Roman Restoration
LT
Leadership of Emperor Taizong of Tang
RE
Reign of Charlemagne & Holy Roman Empire
CB
Carolingian Empire Peak Borders
RR
Reign of Rurik
RA
Reign of Alfred the Great
RN
Reign of Oleg of Novgorod
RE
Reign of Edward the Elder
RK
Reign of Igor of Kiev
RÆ
Reign of Æthelstan
RI
Reign of Edmund I
RK
Reign of Olga of Kiev
RE
Reign of Eadred
RE
Reign of Eadwig
RP
Reign of Edgar the Peaceful
RK
Reign of Sviatoslav I of Kiev
RM
Reign of Edward the Martyr
RU
Reign of Æthelred the Unready
RV
Reign of Vladimir the Great
RI
Reign of Edmund Ironside
RC
Reign of Cnut the Great
RW
Reign of Yaroslav the Wise
RH
Reign of Harold Harefoot
RH
Reign of Harthacnut
RC
Reign of Edward the Confessor
RG
Reign of Harold Godwinson
RC
Reign of William the Conqueror
RI
Reign of William II
RI
Reign of Henry I
RM
Reign of Vladimir II Monomakh
RI
Reign of Mstislav I the Great
RS
Reign of Stephen
RI
Reign of Henry II
RD
Reign of Yuri Dolgorukiy
RB
Reign of Andrey Bogolyubsky
RN
Reign of Vsevolod the Big Nest
RL
Reign of Richard I Lionheart
RE
Reign of John, King of England
RE
Reign of Genghis Khan & Mongol Expansion
RI
Reign of Henry III
RN
Reign of Alexander Nevsky
LK
Leadership of Kublai Khan
RI
Reign of Edward I
RM
Reign of Daniel of Moscow
RI
Reign of Edward II
LM
Leadership of Mansa Musa
RK
Reign of Ivan I Kalita
RI
Reign of Edward III
RD
Reign of Dmitry Donskoy
RI
Reign of Richard II
RM
Reign of Vasily I of Moscow
RI
Reign of Henry IV
LE
Leadership of Yongle Emperor
RV
Reign of Henry V
RV
Reign of Henry VI
RB
Reign of Vasily II the Blind
LY
Leadership of Pachacuti Inca Yupanqui
LI
Leadership of Moctezuma I
RI
Reign of Edward IV
RI
Reign of Ivan III the Great
RI
Reign of Richard III
RV
Reign of Henry VII
LC
Leadership of Huayna Capac
LA
Leadership of Askia the Great
LI
Leadership of Moctezuma II
RV
Reign of Henry VIII
RA
Reign of Suleiman & Ottoman Golden Age
LA
Leadership of Atahualpa
RT
Reign of Ivan IV the Terrible
RI
Reign of Mary I
LA
Leadership of Akbar the Great
EE
Elizabethan Era & Golden Age of England
RI
Reign of Elizabeth I
LN
Leadership of Oda Nobunaga
LH
Leadership of Toyotomi Hideyoshi
RG
Reign of Boris Godunov
LI
Leadership of Tokugawa Ieyasu
RI
Reign of James I
RR
Reign of Michael I of Russia
RI
Reign of Charles I
LJ
Leadership of Shah Jahan
RA
Reign of Louis XIV & French Absolutism
RR
Reign of Alexis of Russia
RC
Reign of Oliver Cromwell
RI
Reign of Charles II
LE
Leadership of Kangxi Emperor
LS
Leadership of Shivaji
RP
Reign of Peter the Great
RI
Reign of James II
RI
Reign of William III
RA
Reign of Queen Anne
RI
Reign of George I
RR
Reign of Catherine I of Russia
RI
Reign of George II
RR
Reign of Anna of Russia
RR
Reign of Elizabeth of Russia
RI
Reign of George III
RC
Reign of Catherine the Great
PW
Presidency of George Washington
RR
Reign of Paul I of Russia
PA
Presidency of John Adams
PJ
Presidency of Thomas Jefferson
RR
Reign of Alexander I of Russia
RH
Reign of Napoleon & French Hegemony
PM
Presidency of James Madison
LZ
Leadership of Shaka Zulu
LO
Leadership of Bernardo O'Higgins
LM
Leadership of José de San Martín
PM
Presidency of James Monroe
LB
Leadership of Simón Bolívar
RI
Reign of George IV
LI
Leadership of Dom Pedro I
PA
Presidency of John Quincy Adams
RR
Reign of Nicholas I of Russia
PJ
Presidency of Andrew Jackson
RI
Reign of William IV
LP
Leadership of José Antonio Páez
LI
Leadership of Dom Pedro II
LS
Leadership of Francisco de Paula Santander
PB
Presidency of Martin Van Buren
RV
Reign of Queen Victoria
PH
Presidency of William Henry Harrison
PT
Presidency of John Tyler
PP
Presidency of James K. Polk
PT
Presidency of Zachary Taylor
PF
Presidency of Millard Fillmore
PP
Presidency of Franklin Pierce
RR
Reign of Alexander II of Russia
PB
Presidency of James Buchanan
LJ
Leadership of Benito Juárez
PW
Presidency of Abraham Lincoln & Civil War
PJ
Presidency of Andrew Johnson
P(
Premiership of John A. Macdonald (1st)
MJ
Meiji Restoration & Modernization of Japan
LM
Leadership of Emperor Meiji
PG
Presidency of Ulysses S. Grant
LB
Leadership of Antonio Guzmán Blanco
CU
Chancellorship of Otto von Bismarck & German Unification
PM
Premiership of Alexander Mackenzie
LD
Leadership of Porfirio Díaz
PH
Presidency of Rutherford B. Hayes
P(
Premiership of John A. Macdonald (2nd)
PG
Presidency of James A. Garfield
PA
Presidency of Chester A. Arthur
RR
Reign of Alexander III of Russia
P(
Presidency of Grover Cleveland (1st)
PH
Presidency of Benjamin Harrison
LI
Leadership of Menelik II
PA
Premiership of John Abbott
PT
Premiership of John Thompson
P(
Presidency of Grover Cleveland (2nd)
PB
Premiership of Mackenzie Bowell
RR
Reign of Nicholas II of Russia
PT
Premiership of Charles Tupper
PL
Premiership of Wilfrid Laurier
PM
Presidency of William McKinley
PR
Presidency of Theodore Roosevelt
RV
Reign of Edward VII
LG
Leadership of Juan Vicente Gómez
PT
Presidency of William Howard Taft
RV
Reign of George V
PB
Premiership of Robert Borden
LY
Leadership of Sun Yat-sen
PW
Presidency of Woodrow Wilson
RL
Reign of Vladimir Lenin
P(
Premiership of Arthur Meighen (1st)
PH
Presidency of Warren G. Harding
P(
Premiership of W. L. Mackenzie King (1st)
PM
Premiership of Benito Mussolini
PC
Presidency of Calvin Coolidge
PA
Presidency of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
RS
Reign of Joseph Stalin
P(
Premiership of Arthur Meighen (2nd)
P(
Premiership of W. L. Mackenzie King (2nd)
LS
Leadership of Hirohito (Emperor Shōwa)
PH
Presidency of Herbert Hoover
PB
Premiership of R. B. Bennett
LV
Leadership of Getúlio Vargas
LI
Leadership of Haile Selassie I
PR
Presidency of Franklin D. Roosevelt
CH
Chancellorship of Adolf Hitler
P(
Premiership of W. L. Mackenzie King (3rd)
RV
Reign of George VI
PC
Premiership of Winston Churchill
PT
Presidency of Harry S. Truman
LP
Leadership of Juan Perón
LN
Leadership of Jawaharlal Nehru
PL
Premiership of Louis St. Laurent
PB
Premiership of David Ben-Gurion
LZ
Leadership of Mao Zedong
RI
Reign of Elizabeth II
PE
Presidency of Dwight D. Eisenhower
RK
Reign of Nikita Khrushchev
PD
Premiership of John Diefenbaker
LN
Leadership of Kwame Nkrumah
PG
Presidency of Charles de Gaulle
PY
Premiership of Lee Kuan Yew
LC
Leadership of Fidel Castro
PK
Presidency of John F. Kennedy
PP
Premiership of Lester B. Pearson
PJ
Presidency of Lyndon B. Johnson
LK
Leadership of Jomo Kenyatta
RB
Reign of Leonid Brezhnev
LN
Leadership of Julius Nyerere
PS
Presidency of Mobutu Sese Seko
LG
Leadership of Indira Gandhi
P(
Premiership of Pierre Trudeau (1st)
PN
Presidency of Richard Nixon
PM
Premiership of Golda Meir
LG
Leadership of Muammar Gaddafi
LA
Leadership of Salvador Allende
PA
Presidency of Hafez al-Assad
LP
Leadership of Augusto Pinochet
PF
Presidency of Gerald Ford
PC
Presidency of Jimmy Carter
LX
Leadership of Deng Xiaoping
PC
Premiership of Joe Clark
SK
Supreme Leadership of Ruhollah Khomeini
PT
Premiership of Margaret Thatcher
PH
Presidency of Saddam Hussein
P(
Premiership of Pierre Trudeau (2nd)
PR
Presidency of Ronald Reagan
PM
Presidency of François Mitterrand
PM
Presidency of Hosni Mubarak
CK
Chancellorship of Helmut Kohl
RF
Reign of King Fahd
LN
Leadership of Manuel Noriega
PH
Premiership of Bob Hawke
PT
Premiership of John Turner
PG
Premiership of Rajiv Gandhi
PM
Premiership of Brian Mulroney
PS
Presidency of José Sarney
RG
Reign of Mikhail Gorbachev
PB
Presidency of Virgilio Barco
PS
Premiership of Yitzhak Shamir
PM
Presidency of Robert Mugabe
PB
Premiership of Benazir Bhutto
PS
Presidency of Carlos Salinas
PB
Presidency of George H. W. Bush
PK
Presidency of F. W. de Klerk
PM
Presidency of Carlos Menem
RY
Reign of Boris Yeltsin
PC
Premiership of Kim Campbell
PC
Presidency of Bill Clinton
PC
Premiership of Jean Chrétien
LM
Leadership of Nelson Mandela
LH
Leadership of John Howard
PB
Premiership of Tony Blair
LC
Leadership of Hugo Chávez
PP
Presidency of Vladimir Putin
PB
Presidency of George W. Bush
LV
Leadership of Álvaro Uribe Vélez
PM
Premiership of Paul Martin
PJ
Presidency of Hu Jintao
LS
Leadership of Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva
CM
Chancellorship of Angela Merkel
PH
Premiership of Stephen Harper
PO
Presidency of Barack Obama
PN
Premiership of Benjamin Netanyahu
LG
Leadership of Julia Gillard
PA
Premiership of Shinzo Abe
LJ
Leadership of Xi Jinping
PJ
Presidency of Xi Jinping
LM
Leadership of Nicolás Maduro
PM
Premiership of Narendra Modi
LM
Leadership of Narendra Modi
PT
Premiership of Justin Trudeau
FT
First Presidency of Donald Trump
PM
Presidency of Emmanuel Macron
LM
Leadership of Scott Morrison
LR
Leadership of Cyril Ramaphosa
LB
Leadership of Nayib Bukele
PB
Presidency of Joe Biden
RI
Reign of Charles III
LA
Leadership of Anthony Albanese
LU
Leadership of Gustavo Petro Urrego
LM
Leadership of Javier Milei
PS
Premiership of Keir Starmer
LS
Leadership of Claudia Sheinbaum
ST
Second Presidency of Donald Trump