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Main listing: List of timelines

Main categories: Category:Timelines, part of Category:Chronology

Main articles: Timeline and Chronology

Timelines describe the events that occurred before another event, leading up to it, causing it, and also those that occurred right afterward that were attributable to it.

Guidelines

Main article: Wikipedia:Timeline standards

WikiProject Timeline Tracer is making an effort, as of January 2008, to seek out and standardize timeline and chronological references.

See also the Featured list criteria and Wikipedia:Lists as style guides, and relevant Featured lists such as Timeline of chemistry and Narnian timeline as examples.

Graphical timelines

• Category:Graphical timelines
  • Uploaded images of timelines
  • {{Include timeline}}, an easy way of including editable template-based horizontal or vertical graphical timelines.
  • mw:Extension:EasyTimeline, editable code-based timelines using Erik Zachte's extension for MediaWiki, <timeline>

Days, years, decades, centuries, millenia

Wikipedia-wide date-based timeline (See any date: June 1, 1930s, 1952, 1900s, etc)

• Wikipedia:Timeline standards
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Years
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Days of the year
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Timeline Tracer