# TimelineTraveler > TimelineTraveler is a web app for making interactive timelines that zoom from billions of years ago down to a single minute. Events sit in parallel lanes on one time axis, and more events appear as you zoom in. Every event can list its sources. Each timeline below has an interactive page and a Markdown version with every event, its date, its lane and its sources. ## Timelines - [Star Wars Timeline: Canon Films, Series and Games in Story Order](https://www.timelinetraveler.com/timeline/star-wars-timeline.md): The Star Wars canon on its in-universe calendar (BBY and ABY): every film and every live-action and animated series, with major games, books and comics beside the key story events. Zoom in on a war to see its battles. As of September 24, 2026. - [2026 Iran War Timeline: From the First Strikes to Today](https://www.timelinetraveler.com/timeline/iran-war-2026-timeline.md): The war between the United States, Israel and Iran, from the February 28 strikes that killed Ali Khamenei through the April ceasefire, the Strait of Hormuz blockades, the June memorandum and its collapse, and the renewed strikes and talks of September. Zoom in for the first day hour by hour. As of September 24, 2026. - [Things That Happened at the Same Time: Surprising Overlaps in History](https://www.timelinetraveler.com/timeline/things-that-happened-at-the-same-time.md): Twenty-two pairs of events that feel eras apart but sit close together on one timeline, from Cleopatra and the Moon landing to the last guillotine execution and Star Wars. Each pair shares a tag, so you can filter to one overlap and see the two events side by side in different lanes. - [Titanic Sinking Timeline: The Last 2 Hours 40 Minutes](https://www.timelinetraveler.com/timeline/titanic-sinking-timeline.md): The sinking of RMS Titanic on April 14 to 15, 1912, minute by minute: the bridge, the wireless room, every lifeboat, Carpathia and Californian side by side, from the iceberg sighting at 11:40 pm to Carpathia taking aboard the last boat at about 8:30 am. Times are Titanic's ship's time, as used in the 1912 inquiries; Carpathia and Californian times are those ships' own clocks, as their officers testified. Zoom out for the ship's building, the inquiries and the wreck. - [9/11 Timeline: The September 11 Attacks Minute by Minute](https://www.timelinetraveler.com/timeline/9-11-timeline.md): The four hijacked flights, the FAA and military response, the President's day and the fall of the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001, with the lead-up and aftermath. Zoom into the morning to follow each flight minute by minute, as the 9/11 Commission and NIST record it. - [The Race to the Moon](https://www.timelinetraveler.com/timeline/race-to-the-moon-timeline.md): From Sputnik to the last footsteps on the Moon, 1957–1975, then the return: robotic landers from China, India, Japan and private companies, and Artemis II, the first crewed flight around the Moon since 1972. Zoom in on any programme to see its missions, and keep zooming into Apollo 11 to follow the landing minute by minute. - [Epstein Files Timeline: The Case, the Court Records and the Releases](https://www.timelinetraveler.com/timeline/epstein-files-timeline.md): The Jeffrey Epstein case from the 2005 Palm Beach police investigation and the 2008 plea deal through his 2019 federal arrest and death, Ghislaine Maxwell's conviction, the unsealing of court records, the Epstein Files Transparency Act and the Justice Department's releases and the court fights over them. As of September 24, 2026. - [Trump Administration Statements on Epstein](https://www.timelinetraveler.com/timeline/trump-administration-statements-on-epstein.md): What Donald Trump, Pam Bondi, Kash Patel, Dan Bongino, JD Vance and Howard Lutnick said about Jeffrey Epstein and the Epstein files, before and after taking office, beside the key dates in the case. As of September 24, 2026. - [Geologic Time Scale: Earth's 4.6-Billion-Year History](https://www.timelinetraveler.com/timeline/geologic-time-scale-timeline.md): An interactive geologic time scale, from Earth's formation 4.54 billion years ago to today, with eons, eras, periods and epochs dated to the current International Chronostratigraphic Chart. Zoom in to see each unit open into the next, alongside the history of life, climate, the five mass extinctions and human origins. - [World War II Timeline: 1939–1945, Every Front Side by Side](https://www.timelinetraveler.com/timeline/world-war-2-timeline.md): World War II from the invasion of Poland to Japan's surrender, with Europe, the Eastern Front, the Pacific, North Africa, the Holocaust and the home fronts in parallel lanes, plus the lead-up from 1931 and the postwar trials. Zoom in on Pearl Harbor, D-Day and Hiroshima to see them minute by minute. - [JFK Assassination Timeline: November 22, 1963 and the Investigations](https://www.timelinetraveler.com/timeline/jfk-assassination-timeline.md): The assassination of President John F. Kennedy in Dallas, from Lee Harvey Oswald's background and the Texas trip through the Warren Commission, the House Select Committee on Assassinations and the release of the JFK records. Zoom into November 22, 1963 to follow the day minute by minute. As of September 24, 2026. - [History of AI Timeline: From Turing to 2026](https://www.timelinetraveler.com/timeline/history-of-ai-timeline.md): Artificial intelligence from the first neural network model in 1943 through the booms, the AI winters, expert systems, machine learning, deep learning and the generative AI era, with research, products, chips, public milestones and law side by side. Zoom into 2022 to 2026 for model releases, GPU generations and new rules. As of September 24, 2026. ## Site - [Explore](https://www.timelinetraveler.com/explore): the public gallery of timelines - [Pricing](https://www.timelinetraveler.com/pricing): plans and what each includes - [Privacy policy](https://www.timelinetraveler.com/privacy) - [Terms of service](https://www.timelinetraveler.com/terms) ## Use cases - [Story timeline maker for writers and worldbuilders](https://www.timelinetraveler.com/for/writers): Keep a story’s chronology straight with a lane for each character and your own era names, such as BBY and ABY. Zoom from your world’s deep history to a single year. Free to start. - [Interactive timelines for journalists and explainers](https://www.timelinetraveler.com/for/journalists): Embed an interactive timeline in an article, with a lane for each person and sources on every event. Edit once and the embed shows the change. TimelineJS spreadsheets import. - [Research and case chronology timelines with sources](https://www.timelinetraveler.com/for/researchers): Build a chronology with sources on every event. Minute-level and year-level events on one axis, a lane per person or source, and password links and citation export on Pro. - [Interactive timelines for history and science teachers](https://www.timelinetraveler.com/for/teachers): Geologic time and a single day on one zoomable timeline. Compare places in parallel lanes, present tours in class, and embed timelines in a class site. - [Timeline videos for YouTube and history channels](https://www.timelinetraveler.com/for/video-creators): Record a guided tour of an interactive timeline as a video: pick the stops, write captions, and download MP4 or WebM up to 1920 pixels wide. PNG export for overlays. ## Comparisons - [TimelineJS alternative](https://www.timelinetraveler.com/compare/timelinejs): TimelineJS is a free, open-source tool from Northwestern University’s Knight Lab. You build a timeline in a Google Sheets template, and readers see it one event at a time as a slide, with a track of events below. - [Preceden alternative](https://www.timelinetraveler.com/compare/preceden): Preceden is a web-based timeline maker. You build timelines in a browser editor, and paid plans add spreadsheet import, collaboration and custom branding. - [Time.Graphics alternative](https://www.timelinetraveler.com/compare/time-graphics): Time.Graphics is a web-based timeline maker with a free plan, short paid passes, and pricing for teachers, students and companies. - [Tiki-Toki alternative](https://www.timelinetraveler.com/compare/tiki-toki): Tiki-Toki is a browser-based timeline maker from Webalon. It offers several views, including a category band view and a 3D view. - [Timetoast alternative](https://www.timelinetraveler.com/compare/timetoast): Timetoast is a web-based timeline maker for projects, teams and classrooms. It shows timelines in horizontal, vertical list and spreadsheet-style views. - [Aeon Timeline alternative](https://www.timelinetraveler.com/compare/aeon-timeline): Aeon Timeline is an installed app for Mac, Windows and iOS, used by writers, legal professionals and researchers. It links events to people, places and other entities.