History, horizontally
Dates are hard to remember. Order is not. TimeAxis lays events out on one continuous axis you can drag and zoom, so you can see what came before what — and how far apart things really were.
A live timeline with a sample of world events — drag it, zoom it, search it.
How the timeline works
One continuous axis you move through, rather than a list you scroll past.
- Navigate
- Click and drag the timeline left or right. The date updates in real time as you move.
- Zoom
- Scroll to change the level of detail — century, decade, years, months, days.
- Events
- Markers show what happened. Click one to open its description and context.
- Pin
- Long-press an event or range to pin it. Pinned items stay visible through any filter.
When the gaps are
bigger than the events
True spacing has a cost: five empty centuries eat the screen while a crowded afternoon collapses into one pixel. Switch the explorer to Compressed and every event gets equal room — the time between them moves out of the spacing and into colour.
- Every event gets its own slot, however tight the cluster it belongs to.
- Colour carries the real gap — blue for the shortest, red for the longest, exact duration on hover.
- Bound it to a range (“1500” to “1800”, or “44 BC”), and click any event to send the axis to its date.
Paste a Wikipedia link.
Get a timeline.
An article is a wall of prose with the dates buried in it. Drop its URL into the AI box and TimeAxis reads the article, pulls out what happened when, and lays it along the axis in order.
- Events come from the article itself — not invented around its title.
- Any language Wikipedia, and mobile links, work the same.
- The result is yours to edit, extend and keep.
A tool for understanding, not memorising
Built for self-directed research
Follow a thread wherever it goes. Filter by category or search across everything, and keep only what matters to the question you are actually asking.
Your own events and timelines
Add events and periods, group them into timelines, and keep them. Your reading becomes a structure you can come back to instead of notes you lose.
Describe it, or paste a Wikipedia link
Start from a prompt rather than a blank axis — or drop in a Wikipedia article and TimeAxis pulls its dated events onto the axis. Either way you get a first pass to correct and extend yourself; the draft is a starting point, not the answer.
Geographic and temporal context
See where events happened alongside when. Switch between horizontal and vertical layouts so the timeline works on a phone as well as a wide screen.
Start with a question
The explorer is free to use and needs no account. Create one when you want to save your own events and timelines.