Yearline · all-years release
Pick any year from AD 1 to 2026.
Open a year and read what named sources place in it, where, and how firmly. Every record quotes its source, carries a note on its source and limits, and leads back to the passage it rests on.
2,026 years, one line
Each bar is a year; taller bars hold more records. Every year has at least three, from at least two regions.
Point at the line to read a year, click to open it.
- 6,529 source-attributed records
- 2,026 / 2,026 years with three or more separate events from two or more regions
- 854 sources (editions, volumes and single documents), quoted in 9 languages. Browse the sources
- 21 records kept off the line: 3 approximate ranges and 18 with no year. See them
Browse by century
Ranges are for navigation only, not historical eras.
By region
Where the source places the event. Labels are broad groupings, not borders.
- East Asia3,079
- Europe1,524
- Northern Africa605
- Southeast Asia264
- Western Asia251
- Americas210
- South Asia110
- Oceania34
- Central Asia21
- Mediterranean10
- Western Africa1
- No region assigned420
By theme
One theme per record, for finding things; history does not sort this neatly.
Every record answers three questions
- What does the source say? Each statement is attributed to a named source, and a key passage it rests on is quoted: in the original language with a working translation, or, where a published translation or an editor’s published English abstract is what was read, in that.
- What are its limits? Each record carries a note on its source and, where there is one, on what the passage cannot establish, in the list as well as on its own page.
- How is it dated? By the year a source places it in, by an approximate range, or not at all. These are never mixed.
This is an AI-researched, sample-audited collection. It is not a complete account of any year. How to read this site · What it covers and what it does not