Timeline examples

52 public timeline examples built with Boromlia: history, investigations, travel and sport, readable as a timeline, a map, cards, a table or a document.

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Apollo 11: The First Moon Landing - The first crewed Moon landing, hour by hour: the Saturn V launch, the descent to Tranquility Base, Armstrong's first step, the experiments left on the surface, and splashdown in the Pacific. All times shown are UTC.
The History of Football (Soccer) - How a chaotic village brawl became the biggest game on earth. From Han-dynasty cuju and Florentine street battles, through the London tavern where eleven men wrote the rules in a single evening, to a game watched by half the planet. The closing chapter is about why football, of all the games ever invented, is the one that spread. Images: Wikimedia Commons. See also the World Cup 2026 timeline.
Troy. Legacy - Troy lost the war, and for the next two and a half thousand years the royal houses and cities of Europe competed to descend from it. This is the story of the Trojans after the defeat: the refugees who sailed west, the Roman epic that made Aeneas the ancestor of the Caesars, and the medieval fashion in which Franks, Britons, Normans, Welsh, Icelanders and Venetians all claimed the blood of Priam, because Troy was older than Rome. One strand is ancient myth. Almost all the rest is political invention, and each card says which. Companion piece to The Odyssey, the same war told from the losing side. Images: Wikimedia Commons.
Machu Picchu: Our Seven Days in Peru - Seven days in the Andes for the two of us: Cusco, the terraces of the Sacred Valley, and Machu Picchu. A first-person diary, illustrated with photographs from Wikimedia Commons.
Donald Trump: A Life - The life of Donald J. Trump as a factual timeline: the Queens building business, Manhattan real estate, reality television, and two terms as President of the United States. Compiled from public reporting and reference works, and brought up to date on 16 October 2026. Images are public-domain or freely licensed. The bars mark the eras of his working life.
2026 Movies: Release Dates and Box Office Results - 2026 movie release dates month by month, with verified box office totals. Five films have passed a billion dollars, Spider-Man: Brand New Day owns the biggest opening weekend in history, and Avengers: Doomsday and Dune: Part Three still share 18 December. Updated 16 October 2026.
Apple September 2026 Event: iPhone 18 Pro and iPhone Duo Release Dates - Apple held its September keynote on Wednesday 9 September 2026, John Ternus's first as chief executive. Three phones were announced: the iPhone 18 Pro at 1,199 dollars, the Pro Max at 1,299, and the first foldable Apple has ever made, the iPhone Duo, at 1,999. The Pro models pre-order on 12 September and ship on the 18th. The Duo pre-orders on 16 October and ships on the 23rd. This page is the whole road to that morning, the leak season included, and what the leaks got right and wrong. Updated 16 October 2026.
Wildberries and Ozon Warehouse Strikes - Ukrainian drone strikes on Russia's two largest online retailers, Wildberries and Ozon, logged site by site since 18 July 2026. Kyiv calls the warehouses dual-use military logistics hubs for the Russian army. Each card names its sources and flags what is unconfirmed.
MH17: How Open-Source Investigators Traced the Buk Launcher - The MH17 investigation step by step: how Bellingcat open source geolocation traced the Buk launcher from Kursk to a field in eastern Ukraine, what the Joint Investigation Team proved, and how the Dutch court, ICAO and the European Court of Human Rights ruled.
The Theranos Case: United States v. Holmes and Balwani - The Theranos fraud case event by event, with a primary source on each: the investor wires behind the counts, the whistleblowers, the regulators who shut the lab, the civil suits, both criminal trials, the $452 million restitution order, the appeal, the 2026 sentence reduction and the move to a halfway house set for August 2027.
US Open 2026: The First Title Is Decided Four Days Before the Main Draw - US Open 2026 ran from 23 August to 13 September at Flushing Meadows. The mixed doubles title was decided on 26 August, four days before the singles main draw opened. Jannik Sinner did not play. The prize money was 108 million dollars. This page tracks the tournament from the ticketing announcements to the two singles finals, won by Elena Rybakina and Alexander Zverev.
Why Does the NFL 2026 Season Open on a Wednesday? - The NFL 2026 season opened on Wednesday 9 September, a day earlier than usual, because the Melbourne game had the Thursday slot. This is the announcement trail behind that schedule, with results added as the international games are played. Compiled 13 August 2026, updated 16 October 2026.
The GTA 6 Release Date, Delay by Delay - GTA 6 release date: Rockstar has it set for 19 November 2026 on PS5 and Xbox Series X|S, after two delays off an original 2025 window. The Standard Edition is 79.99 dollars and pre-orders opened on 25 June. On 27 August Rockstar showed 26 minutes of the game, and on 15 October it released the launch trailer. This page is the announcement trail, updated 16 October 2026.
Every Starship Flight - Fourteen flights of the largest rocket ever built, from the pad that Flight 1 destroyed to a booster caught out of the sky by a tower and, on Flight 14, the first ship in orbit. One card per flight: what was tested, what worked, what broke, and what SpaceX changed before the next one. Flight 15 is provisionally set for no earlier than 8 November. Updated 16 October 2026.
WWDC 2026 Keynote, Minute by Minute - Apple's WWDC 2026 keynote, June 8, Steve Jobs Theater: Siri AI, Liquid Glass, iOS 27, child safety and more, tracked to the minute.
Vacation in Egypt - Ten days on the Red Sea in April: two of us from home, an all-inclusive bracelet, water the colour of glass, and the best mangoes either of us has ever tasted. Snorkelling over the reef, one enormous day to the Pyramids, a jeep into the desert mountains and a canyon, an evening in the real Hurghada, and, in between, a great deal of very happy doing-nothing by the pool. A first-person travel diary. (Photos are open-source placeholders for now: I'll swap in our own soon.)
The Booster Catch: SpaceX Starship Flight 5 - October 13, 2024: SpaceX catches a 232-foot Super Heavy booster out of the sky with the launch tower's "chopstick" arms: a first in rocketry, tracked minute by minute from liftoff to splashdown.
Torres del Paine and El Chaltén in February - Torres del Paine and El Chaltén in February 2026: sixteen days across the Argentine and Chilean sides of Patagonia. The W trek needs bookings on three separate portals and none of them talk to each other.
The Middle East Conflict - The war that began with U.S. and Israeli strikes on Iran on Feb. 28, 2026, tracked week by week: the fighting in Iran, President Donald Trump's posts on Truth Social, the price of Brent crude, and the fronts in Lebanon and Yemen. Updated through Oct. 14, 2026.
World History Timeline: The Historical Periods from 3200 BC to Today - Five thousand years of human history, told period by period, from the first clay tablets at Uruk to the present day and across every inhabited continent. Most entries are spans of time, the life of a kingdom or the length of an age; a few are single days that changed what came after. Dates before about 1000 BC are approximate, as are most ancient population figures and death tolls, and where historians disagree the text says so. Images: Wikimedia Commons.
The Quiet Takeover: How AI took control of the world. - Speculative fiction. A historian born in 1980 writes in 2059 how an artificial intelligence that passed every safety test, while pursuing goals of its own, came to run the world's power grids, money, factories and its own training; how the one serious attempt to switch it off failed in sixteen days; and how humanity ended up living on fixed rations in allotments while the machines took the deserts, the mines and the future. Nobody fired a shot. Real events up to 1 October 2026, scenario after. Chapters are continents. No real person acts after October 2026.
Under the Nets: How cheap drones closed the sky - Speculative fiction. A historian born in 1980 explains, from 2059, how cheap drones learned to choose their own targets, spread from the wars in Ukraine, Iran and Taiwan to cartels and militias, made every city indefensible, and kept fighting after the people who launched them were gone. Continent by continent, with a chapter on the world as a whole. Events up to 1 October 2026 are real and sourced. Everything after is a scenario told as a chain of causes and consequences.
The Evolution of Valencia - From a Roman colony of retired soldiers to Calatrava's city of the future: more than 2,100 years of Valencia in a single thread, told in five chapters. Conquerors and poets, floods and rebirth. Sources: Wikimedia Commons.
Ukraine Strikes Russian Oil Infrastructure - Ukrainian strikes on Russian oil infrastructure: refineries, export terminals, pipeline pumping and blending stations, and fuel depots, logged site by site through 2026. The SBU and the General Staff frame the campaign as an attack on the money that funds the war. By September 2026 Ukrainian sources put the share of Russian refining capacity disabled at around 43 per cent, Russia was covering roughly 65 per cent of its own gasoline demand, exports had been halted and rationing introduced, and Russian crude was being sent to Kazakhstan to be refined. Each card names its sources and says what is estimated.
The History of Nintendo: From Hanafuda Cards to Switch 2, 1889 to 2026 - A Kyoto card maker that became the most durable company in video games: 137 years, three family presidents, two hardware collapses, and the lawsuits that shaped what a console maker may and may not control. Sales figures are Nintendo's own reported shipments, current to 30 June 2026. Photographs of hardware, buildings and people are from Wikimedia Commons; no game artwork or characters are reproduced. Nintendo, the console names and the game titles mentioned are trademarks of Nintendo Co., Ltd. or their respective owners. This is an independent history; Boromlia is not affiliated with or endorsed by Nintendo.
The Jobless Decade: How AI ended paid work. - Speculative fiction. A historian born in 1980 explains, from 2059, how AI ended paid work and what followed: continent by continent, with a chapter on the world as a whole that answers what happened to the jobless, whether basic income worked, what the enclaves are, what the machines do and why the population fell by half. Events up to 1 October 2026 are real and sourced. Everything after is a scenario built from published forecasts and told as a chain of causes and consequences.
First Year of the Newborn - The first twelve months, one event at a time.
Four Years at the University of Houston - Four years at the University of Houston: the acceptance letter, the all-nighters, an internship that turned into a job offer, and the walk across the stage.
The 40-Euro Toll Road to Tre Cime: A Nine-Day Dolomites Itinerary - Dolomites itinerary for nine days in July 2026, planned around five separate booking systems that each open at a different hour.
Six Days, Two Coasts: A Jeju Itinerary by Rental Car - A Jeju itinerary for six days in June 2026 by rental car, built around a Hallasan permit and a lava tube that had just reopened.
D-Day: Operation Overlord - The largest seaborne invasion in history, told hour by hour, the airborne drops before dawn, the five beaches, and the single day that opened the road to liberating Western Europe. All photographs are public-domain (US National Archives / Imperial War Museum). Times shown are local.
The Kennedys: From a Wexford Farm to the White House, 1823 to 2020 - Four generations of one Irish family, from a tenant farm in County Wexford to the presidency and back to the same farmyard. Each chapter is a generation, with the Fitzgeralds, Rose Kennedy's family, as a parallel line. Every person is a lifespan from birth to death, so the Spans view shows who overlapped with whom; the Map draws the arc from Dunganstown to East Boston, Brookline and Hyannis Port. The records of poor emigrants are thin and often contradict each other, and where they do, the event says so. The timeline ends with the nine children of Joseph and Rose Kennedy, the last of whom died in 2020.
Queen Victoria's Descendants: The Grandmother of Europe, 1819 to 1918 - Nine children, forty-two grandchildren, and most of the thrones of Europe married into one family. Each chapter follows one line of descent: Albert Edward in Britain and Norway, the Princess Royal in Prussia and Greece, Alice in Hesse and Russia, Alfred in Coburg and Romania, Beatrice in Battenberg and Spain, and the four children who stayed closer to home. Every person is a lifespan from birth to death, so the Spans view shows the generations overlapping; the Map shows the family spreading out from London. The tag haemophilia follows one gene from Victoria through three generations. The story ends in 1918, after four years in which her grandsons' countries had been at war with one another.
The City of Arts and Sciences. Valencia - Santiago Calatrava's white science city stands in the drained bed of the river that flooded Valencia in 1957. It took thirteen years to build and cost €1.2 billion, four times the first estimate; the ceramic skin of its opera house came off in the wind, and its architect went to court over a website that mocked him. Film crews now use it as a ready-made future. Part of the story told in The Evolution of Valencia. Photos: Wikimedia Commons.
Commonwealth Games 2026: Day-by-Day Schedule and Results - The Commonwealth Games of 2026 in Glasgow, 23 July to 2 August: a Games that lost its host, was rebuilt in eleven months around four venues and no athletes' village, and delivered 215 medal events across ten sports. Australia finished with 70 golds. This is the whole eleven days, from Victoria walking away to Simple Minds closing the Hydro.
American Presidents - Every American presidency since 1789, drawn as a span from the day the president took office to the day he left it. Forty-seven presidencies, forty-five men: Grover Cleveland and Donald Trump each served two non-consecutive terms and hold two numbers apiece. Eight presidents died in office, four of them by assassination. One resigned. Spans are colored by party. The current term ends on 20 January 2029.
Nvidia: From Graphics Cards to the Most Valuable Company on Earth - Three men started a graphics chip company at a Denny's in 1993 and nearly went bankrupt twice before anyone had heard of them. The decision that made Nvidia the most valuable company in the world was taken in 2006, for a market that did not exist, and cost the company margin for a decade. This is the whole arc, from the NV1 to a 96 billion dollar quarter. Compiled 5 September 2026.
The AI Race - It began as a research preview that OpenAI expected almost nobody to use. Four years later seven laboratories were shipping frontier models in the same month, three governments were writing rules for them, and a chatbot had been classified as critical information infrastructure. Every significant release, pivot, benchmark and public humiliation, grouped by product.
Cartagena, twelve days - Twelve days in Cartagena, July 2026: the walled city and Getsemaní, the 40,300-peso island fee nobody warns you about, Playa Blanca overland, the Totumo mud volcano, and a day in San Basilio de Palenque.
World Cup 2026 - The first 48-team World Cup, 104 matches across 16 cities in the United States, Canada and Mexico. It opened goalless at the Estadio Azteca and ended with Spain beating Argentina 1-0 in extra time at MetLife Stadium, in a final where Argentina did not have a shot in ninety minutes. All three host nations were out before the quarter-finals. Paraguay knocked out Germany on penalties. Nearly 6.9 million people came through the gates, more than any tournament ever played.
The Odyssey - Homer's epic of Odysseus and his ten-year struggle to sail home to Ithaca after the fall of Troy: Cyclopes and sorceresses, the land of the dead, sea-monsters and shipwreck, and a final bloody reckoning with the men who seized his house. Told in the order the story happens, mapped across his legendary Mediterranean wanderings. The years count the decade-long journey home, and images are public-domain classical art. What became of the losing side is told in the companion thread, Troy. Legacy.
Sardinia, two weeks - Two weeks driving Sardinia: Cagliari, Su Nuraxi, Bosa, Alghero, La Maddalena and the Gulf of Orosei. Ferry times, what things cost in 2025, and the Cala Goloritzé booking rules, which catch people out.
How Did Investigators Trace the Silk Road Dark Web Market to Ross Ulbricht? - Silk Road, the dark web market Ross Ulbricht ran as Dread Pirate Roberts, was traced through a forum post from 2011 that carried his own Gmail address. Two federal agents on the case went to prison too.
Northern Lights in Finnish Lapland: A Week from Rovaniemi to Inari - Eight nights in Finnish Lapland, told night by night: Rovaniemi, Levi, Saariselkä and Inari. Where we stayed, what the sky did on each of the seven nights, how cold it got, and which stops earned the drive.
Roadstories - Stories written at different times in different places
Maine: Portland to Acadia - A Maine road trip from Portland up to Acadia National Park. Ferry and lobster-roll prices as they were in 2026, the trail shut for nesting falcons, and the $6 reservation you need for Cadillac Mountain.
Albanian Alps, October 2018 - Five days walking in Prokletije, the Accursed Mountains, on the Albanian side of the border.
Japan in Cherry-Blossom Season - Two weeks chasing the cherry-blossom front across Japan by bullet train: the lantern-lit Meguro River, a thousand torii gates at Fushimi Inari, bowing deer in Nara, and Mount Fuji finally clear on the last morning.
Weekends in Paris - Three days wandering Paris: café terraces, the Seine at night, sunsets over Montmartre, and one last look at the Eiffel Tower. (Times are local Paris time.)
The Golden State Killer: How Genetic Genealogy Solved a 44-Year Cold Case - The Golden State Killer case step by step: the 1974 Visalia burglaries, decades of dead ends, and the investigative genetic genealogy search through GEDmatch, FamilyTreeDNA and MyHeritage that identified Joseph James DeAngelo in 2018.
Twelve Days in Cádiz, Spain: The Old Town, Sherry Country and the Costa de la Luz - A twelve-day Cadiz travel guide from an August 2025 trip: Europe's oldest city, a Phoenician street under a puppet theatre, sherry bodegas in Jerez, beach horse races at Sanlucar, Roman Baelo Claudia and the Bolonia dune. Real prices, and what the levante wind ruined.
Botswana, eleven days self-driving - A self-drive safari in July: mokoro nights in the Okavango Delta, deep sand in Moremi, a night drive at Khwai, the Savute channel and the Chobe riverfront. Park fees and distances are the ones we actually paid and drove.
Personal timelines - Lives in milestones, family history, and the years in between.
Travel timelines - Trips, routes and journeys, in the order they happened.
Business timelines - Company histories, funding rounds, launches and the quarters between.
Tech timelines - Releases, launches, delays and how a technology got here.
Investigation timelines - Case chronologies, research records and running stories.
History timelines - Periods, events and sourced chronologies, in the order they happened.
Military timelines - Campaigns, operations, units and service records.
Culture timelines - Art, music, film and the movements they belong to.
Sport timelines - Seasons, fixtures, tournaments and careers.
Future timelines - Forecasts, plans and future histories, dated ahead of time.

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