Highlights

Our selection of significant events, on each of the listed themes, gives you a Tour through Time on your chosen subject. Click on a title to go to the start of a Tour

The site contains more than 200 Tours. Nearly all the highlighted events fit more than one theme, so you can divert at a click into another related Tour.

You can read about any event at slightly greater length by clicking 'Summary'. Or 'Go to History' will bring you to the appropriate narrative at the correct moment.



Aegean civilization
Africa
Albania
Alexander the Great
Alexandria
Algeria
America
American Indians
American Revolution
Andean civilization
Arabia
Arabs
Architecture
Argentina
Arms and armour
Asia
Assyria
Astronomy
Athens
Augustus Caesar
Austria
Austrian empire
Aztecs
Babylon
Balkans
Before the earth was formed
Belgium
Bible
Biology
Boats and ships
Bohemia
Bolivia
Brazil
British art
British colonial America
British empire
British Isles
Buddhism
Bulgaria
Byzantine empire
Caliphs
Canada
Canals
Caribbean (West Indies)
Carthage
Ceramics (pottery and porcelain)
Charlemagne
Chemistry
Chile
China
Christians
Chronology
Cleopatra
Clocks
Colombia
Communication
Communism
Constantine
Cosmology
Counting systems and numerals
Crimean War
Crops and livestock
Crusades
Cuba
Dance
Democracy
Denmark
Discoveries - archaeology
Dutch empire
Ecuador
Egypt
England (2nd century AD to 1707)
England (in British Isles, from prehistory)
England (in Great Britain, from 1707)
English literature
Estonia
Europe
Evolution
Exploration
Falkland Islands
Finland
Florence
France
Franks
French art
French colonial America
French empire
French literature
French Revolutionary Wars
Geography
German literature
Germanic peoples
Germany
Great Britain
Great Britain (British Isles)
Greco-Persian Wars
Greece
Greek literature
Greek science
Guatemala
Habsburgs
Haiti
Hinduism
Holy Roman Empire
Hominids and humans
Hundred Years' War
Hungary
Iceland
Incas
India - the subcontinent
Industrial Revolution
Inventions and discoveries
Ireland
Ireland (British Isles)
Ireland, Republic of
Italian art
Italian literature
Italy
Japan
Jews
Joan of Arc
Julius Caesar
Korea
Latin America
Latin literature
Latvia
Libya
Literature
Literature in English
Lithuania
Mamelukes
Maps
Measurement
Medicine
Mesoamerican civilization
Mesopotamia
Metallurgy
Mexico
Moghul empire
Mongols
Morocco
Movement of peoples
Music
Muslims
Napoleon
Napoleonic wars
Netherlands
Netherlands art
Nicaragua
North America
Northern Ireland
Norway
Olympic Games
Opera
Ottoman empire
Pacific Islands
Painting
Palestine and Phoenicia
Panama
Papacy
Paraguay
Performing arts
Persia
Peru
Phoenicians
Physics
Poland
Portugal
Portuguese empire
Pottery and porcelain
Printing
Prussia
Punic Wars
Reformation
Religion
Religious orders
Renaissance
Roman empire
Romania
Romantic movement
Rome
Russia
Saint Paul
Scandinavia
Science
Scotland
Scotland (British Isles)
Sculpture
Seven Wonders of the World
Sicily
Slavery
South Africa
Southeast Asia
Spain
Spanish empire
Sparta
Sports and games
Sri Lanka
Stone Age man
Sub-Saharan Africa
Sweden
Switzerland
Syria and Palestine
Technology
The earth and the heavens
Theatre
Tibet
Timur
Trade and economics
Transport and travel
Tunisia
Turkey
Turks
United States of America
Uruguay
Venezuela
Venice
Vikings
Wales
Wales (British Isles)
Warfare - land
Warfare - sea
Wars and battles
West Indies
World War I
World War II
Writing
Writing materials