Visual Timeline Series – Neurabites

Some study history to marvel at miraculous stories, reminisce about past glories, mourn great tragedies, honor sacrifices, or draw inspiration from remarkable figures. My interest lies in contextualizing how we got here and inferring recurring patterns.

“History doesn’t repeat itself but it certainly rhymes” – Mark Twain

But for this purpose, most history timelines are either too detailed or too vague. They lack interdisciplinarity and relevant visuals. This is why I’ve started curating this visual timeline series, with 4 guiding principles:

More brevity. Less fluff. My best attempt to only include what’s important.
More visual. Less text. More maps and charts. Less cringe low-quality textbook-style cartoonistic illustrations. More cinematic representations (even if not entirely historical accurate).
More interdisciplinary. Most timelines are too focused on political and socio-cultural events. Ours will also overlay economics, business, and environmental events.
More sociological than psychological: Most history narratives tend to take a ‘Great man‘ view of history. They over index the kings and generals, heroes and villains. While Visual Timelines also calls out specific individuals, I’ll do so with an overtone that is distinctly more sociological than psychological.
Broader perspective: Most timelines take a closed systems approach. For example, events for a certain country are potrayed as if they occured in isolation of other regional and global events. I’ve therefore intentionally included significantly important or relevant ripple-effect events happening elsewhere into the Visual Timelines.

Australia
Korea
Japan
China
Taiwan
Mongol Conquests
South East Asia
Singapore
Malaysia
Vietnam
Thailand
Indonesia
India
Pakistan

WEST and CENTRAL ASIA, MIDDLE EAST, AFRICA

WEST and CENTRAL ASIA

Afghanistan: Graveyard of Empires
Central Asia: An Overlooked Global Legacy
Modern Iran (1945-present)
Persian Empire
Modern Turkey (1920-present)
Anatolia and Ottoman Empire (-1921): Rise and Fall

MIDDLE EAST

Islam
Saudi Arabia
Israel and Palestine: Judea to Palestine and the Jewish People
Christianity
Modern Middle East: Post-colonialism, oil, and power vacuums
Ottoman Middle East: Rise and Fall
Caliphate Middle East
Ancient Middle East

NORTH AFRICA

Egypt

SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA

Sub-Saharan Africa
Nigeria
Congo
Ethiopia
South Africa

EUROPE

GENERAL EUROPE

Modern Europe (1945-present): A New Regional Identity
Imperial Europe (1648-1945): Westphalia to Colonial Empires
Medieval Europe (476-1648): Dark Ages to Renaissance
Ancient Europe (to 476): Greco-Roman Glory

WESTERN EUROPE

United Kingdom and British Empire
French Revolution and Napoleonic Wars (1789-1815)
Germany (inc Holy Roman Empire and Prussia)
Dutch Empire: Rise and Fall (1566-1795)
Austria
Spain
Portugal
Scandinavia (1000-present): Denmark, Sweden, Finland, Norway
Vikings (to 1066)
Italy (476-present)
Byzantine Rome (476-1453)
Roman Empire (to 476): Rise and Fall

CENTRAL, EASTERN & BALKAN EUROPE

Balkan Europe
Austro-Hungarian and Habsburg Empire
Modern Greece (1821-present)
Ancient Greece: Rise and Fall
Russia
Ukraine

*For Turkey and Ottoman Empire see WEST and CENTRAL ASIA, MIDDLE EAST, AFRICA section above

AMERICAS

United States

GENERAL

GLOBAL HISTORY

Big History: Big Bang to Artificial Intelligence
Future Timeline: Tomorrow to End of Universe

MILITARY

FINANCE / ECONOMICS / BUSINESS

Financial Crises: Perpetual Greed-Fear Cycle
Evolution of Financial Markets: Sharing Risk and Reward
History of Money: Money and Credit Cycles
Silicon Valley
Economy and Business Landscape of Australia
Banking Industry

PHILOSOPHY / SCIENCE / MATH

Philosophy
Physics
Medicine
Energy
Industrial Production
Mathematics
Food and Agriculture
Natural Disasters and Epidemics

HUMANITIES / SOCIAL SCIENCE / ARTS / RELIGION

Languages
Art
Religion

Visual Timeline of Austria

Visual Timeline of Italy

Visual Timeline of Vikings

Visual Timeline of South East Asia

Visual Timeline of Australia

Visual Timeline of Roman Empire

Visual Timeline of Egypt

Visual Timeline of Japan

Visual Timeline of World War I

Visual Timeline of India

Visual Timeline of United States

Visual Timeline of Dutch Empire

Visual Timeline of Sub-Saharan Africa

Visual Timeline of Russia

Visual Timeline of United Kingdom and British Empire

Visual Timeline of France

Visual Timeline of Revolutionary France and Napoleonic Wars

Visual Timeline of China

Visual Timeline of Korea

Visual Timeline of World War II