Timeline
Five moments from world history, science and invention, in no particular order. Can you put them in the right sequence?
How to Play
- You get five events. Arrange them from earliest at the top to latest at the bottom.
- Drag a card, or use its up and down buttons. With the keyboard, press Space on a card to lift it, use the arrow keys to move it, and press Space again to drop it.
- Press Check order to reveal the years. Each card is marked right or wrong.
- Daily gives everyone the same five events each day. Practice deals a new set whenever you like.
- Get all five right to keep your perfect streak going.
Tips & Strategy
- Place the events you're sure about first, then fit the others around them.
- Think in eras: ancient (BCE), medieval, early modern, industrial and modern.
- Technology helps: an event that involves steam, electricity or computers places itself.
- "BCE" years count down towards year 1, so 500 BCE comes before 200 BCE.
Frequently Asked Questions
A hand-picked list of well-documented milestones from around the world. Each event has its standard reference date. Where the exact year is uncertain, the card says it's a traditional date.
Not in the same round. Every hand has five different years, so there's always exactly one correct order.
At midnight in your own time zone. Everyone gets the same five events on the same date.
Before the Common Era, the same years as BC. For example, 776 BCE is 776 years before year 1.
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