Who was alive, and which empires existed, in any year from 4004 BC to 1881.
The chart’s printed words, read by machine. Expect odd spellings.
1881 · 23 feet · 5,885 years
All of history, as one stream
Sebastian C. Adams’ Synchronological Chart of Universal History draws every people and empire as a coloured stream flowing along a single line of time, from 4004 BC to 1881. This page lets you zoom into all 23 feet of it.
Zoom with scroll, pinch or the + and − buttons. Move by dragging.
Travel through time with the bar at the bottom, or type a year like “1492” or “480 BC”.
Compare lives in Search: was Genghis Khan alive when Jesus was? Switch to Modern for a clean redraw.
Image courtesy of the David Rumsey Map Collection, David Rumsey Map Center, Stanford Libraries. Shared out of pure fascination, for personal, non-commercial use only.
