Interactive world history timeline & map
Compare world history, side by side.
Tardis World History is an interactive timeline and map for exploring history across countries and civilizations. Choose a period, explore countries, and see how events and civilizations overlap across the world. Read in English, Chinese, or Spanish.
221 BCE
- USUS: no record yet
- UKCeltic Britons (Iron Age)
- FRCeltic Gaul (the Gauls)
- ITAncient Rome+1
- GRHellenistic period
- CNQin
Six regions
Each row is one region’s periods, colored and textured by kind. Blank means no record yet. Showing a saved sample while the live timeline loads.
221 BCE
- USUS: no record yet
- UKCeltic Britons (Iron Age)
- FRCeltic Gaul (the Gauls)
- ITAncient Rome+1
- GRHellenistic period
- CNQin
What was happening in…?
Same moment, different places. Choose a year and see what each region was living through.
- USUS
No record yet
- UKUK
Virginia Woolf
1882 – 1941
- FRFrance
No record yet
- ITItaly
Kingdom of Italy proclaimed
1861 – 1946
- GRGreece
Kingdom of Greece
1832 – 1924
- ESSpain
No record yet
- RURussia
Tsarist Russia
1480 – 1917
- TRTurkey
World War I and Ottoman collapse
1914 – 1918
EGEgypt
British occupation
1882 – 1922
- IRIran
Qajar dynasty
1789 – 1925
- INIndia
British Raj
1858 – 1947
Also: Mewar dynasty
- Mewar dynasty
- Indian independence movement
- Mahatma Gandhi
- CNChina
Republic of China
1911 – 1949
- JPJapan
Modern: Meiji, Taishō, prewar Shōwa
1868 – 1925
- KRKorea
Japanese colonial rule
1910 – 1945
- MXMexico
Mexican Revolution
1910 – 1920
PEPeru
No record yet
- Dynasty or era
- War
- Movement
- Colonial
- Religion
- Economy
- Politics
- Technology
- Literature
- Other
- No record yet
Start from what you know. Zoom out.
One moment, three scopes. In 1861, the US plunges into the American Civil War. Widen the view and the same year shows its neighbors, then the world.
US: American Civil War
US: American Civil War; Mexico: Struggle between liberals and conservatives; Colombia: no record yet; Peru: no record yet; Argentina: no record yet
US: American Civil War; Mexico: Struggle between liberals and conservatives; UK: Victorian era; France: no record yet; Italy: Risorgimento; Russia: Tsarist Russia; India: British Raj; China: Qing; Japan: Early modern: Edo period
See where it happened.
The map shades each country by its entries in your range. Click one for a quick rundown of its events.
Compare them side by side.
Regions and faiths in one table, century by century.
Read it in multiple languages.
Labels come in English, Chinese and Spanish. Show two or more side by side to read history in your own language and in the one you’re learning.
CN · 618 – 907
Tang
唐
JP · 1603 – 1867
Early modern: Edo period
近世：江户时代
IN · 320 – 650
Classical: Gupta Empire
古典时期：笈多帝国
MX · 1325 – 1521
Aztec Empire
阿兹特克帝国
Logged by hand. Sourced where we can.
Every entry is transcribed by hand, so mistakes slip in. When one has a source, its card in the timeline links to it. Where there’s no record yet, the row stays empty.
History is contested. Dates, borders and names differ by source, and by who tells the story. Tardis is for learning and a starting point for conversation, not the final word.
Spot an error? Tell us- Entries
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- Regions and faiths
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- Earliest entry
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- Languages
- English, Chinese, Spanish
- Kinds
- Dynasty, war, movement, colonial, religion, economy, politics, technology, literature
By the numbers
Where will you start?
Pick a place you know, then follow the line to somewhere you don’t.