the long ledger
Timeline
Every bar is a life, drawn to scale. Drag to travel through the centuries, scroll to zoom, sweep the cursor to see who was alive in any year, and click a bar to open the record.
era:
2000 BCE2026
800 BCE to 300 BCE · 34 lives drawn · drag to travel, scroll to zoom, F for full screendrag to travel, pinch to zoom, tap a bar for detailsBusiest decade here: 340 BCEs (11 lives) · Longest life: Laozi (104 years)