The Tudors
1485 to 1603
Henry VII to Elizabeth I, fourteen events covering Bosworth, the break with Rome, the Dissolution of the Monasteries, the Spanish Armada and the Globe Theatre.
Timeline Builder Pack Library
Twenty curated event packs spanning British history, world history, science and exploration. Drop straight into Sequence, Pin, Build or Compare mode for chronology lessons in Year 3 to Year 6.
20 entries · tap any name to open it in the live Timeline Builder.
British history
Romans in Britain
55 BC to AD 410
Caesar's landings, the Claudian conquest, Boudicca's revolt, Hadrian's Wall and the legions' departure.
The Vikings
793 to 1066
Lindisfarne raid, the Great Heathen Army, Alfred the Great, the Danelaw, Cnut and the end at Stamford Bridge.
Anglo-Saxons and Scots
410 to 1066
Britain after the Romans: Sutton Hoo, the conversion to Christianity, Bede, Offa and the rise of Wessex.
Stone Age to Iron Age
10,000 BC to 43 AD
From the first hunter-gatherers in Britain through Skara Brae and Stonehenge to Iron Age hillforts.
British Monarchs
1066 to today
A run of England's most-tested rulers from William the Conqueror in 1066 through to today's reign.
Industrial Revolution
1760 to 1900
Spinning Jenny, steam engine, canals, Stephenson's Rocket and the railways that reshaped Britain.
Plague and Fire of London
1665 to 1666
Two disasters that reshaped Stuart London: the Great Plague of 1665 and the Great Fire of 1666.
Votes for Women
1903 to 1928
How British women won the vote: WSPU, hunger strikes, the Cat and Mouse Act, Emily Davison and the 1928 settlement.
World wars and modern
World Wars (overview)
1914 to 1945
Headline events from both global wars on a single timeline so a class can see their relationship at a glance.
World War 1 (1914 to 1918)
1914 to 1918
Sarajevo to the Armistice: Western Front, the Somme, Verdun, Ypres, Jutland and the war's end.
World War 2 (1939 to 1945)
1939 to 1945
Invasion of Poland to V-J Day: Dunkirk, the Battle of Britain, D-Day, El Alamein, Stalingrad and the atomic bombs.
US Civil Rights movement
1954 to 1968
Brown v Board, the Montgomery bus boycott, the March on Washington, the 1964 Civil Rights Act and the Voting Rights Act.
The Space Race
1957 to today
Sputnik through the Apollo Moon landing to today's Mars rovers and the JWST.
World history
Ancient Egyptians
3100 BC to 30 BC
Three thousand years of pharaohs, pyramids, the Nile and the Rosetta Stone.
Ancient Greeks
800 BC to 146 BC
City-states, Marathon, the first democracy, Socrates, Alexander and the Hellenistic world.
Maya Civilisation
2000 BC to 1500 AD
Astronomers, pyramid-builders, glyph-writers and the long-count calendar of Mesoamerica.
Science, tech and exploration
Famous Inventions
1440 to today
Big inventions that changed daily life: the printing press, the steam engine, the telephone, the lightbulb, powered flight, antibiotics, the World Wide Web.
Great Explorers
1492 to today
Sea voyages, polar expeditions and the maps they made: Columbus, Da Gama, Magellan, Cook, Shackleton, Hillary, Earhart.
History of Computers
1820 to today
Babbage to AI: Lovelace, Turing, ENIAC, the microchip, the personal computer, the smartphone and machine learning.