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

500 CE to 1400 · 44 lives drawn · drag to travel, scroll to zoom, F for full screendrag to travel, pinch to zoom, tap a bar for detailsBusiest decade here: 1180s (7 lives) · Longest life: Justinian I (83 years)