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How will you mark and label them? For instance, you could write on the timeline, attach colored labels, or make a code that refers back to your chronology.
Using the chronology that you made of events and dates, figure out where they would fall on your timeline.Label the dates on the appropriate segments, left to right.Draw a line and divide it into the number of equal segments that you figure you will need.Calculate the number of segments that your timeline will have.
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These decisions may be a matter of trial and error, based on the size of your paper. Decide what units of time you will use (days, months, years, decades, centuries, etc.) to divide your timeline into segments.
Choose the period of time that your timeline will cover, being sure to include your earliest and latest dates.What are the earliest and latest dates that you wish to include.List the events in a chronology, a sequence of earliest to latest.It is a good idea to note your source(s), too, so that you can return later and verify the dates, if necessary. Research and note the specific dates when the events that you wish to include occurred.Make a list of events that you wish to put on your timeline.How will you choose which events to include and exclude? Decide what the timeline will show: personal events, big political events, events related to a geographic area, randomly chosen events, and so on.In the process, culling from the many possible dates sharpens ones appreciation for the dates necessarily excluded. Thus, making a timeline allows one to plot events in a graphic way, to see possible relationships, to help memory, and to grasp sequence. Thematic timelines suggest turning points, linear trends, and progressions, whether or not these exist in fact. They suggest that events exist in relationship to one another, in a context. Sequences in a timeline, where some events happen before others, also suggest the possibility of cause and effect. Portrayed in a line, events are unique in history and do not repeat themselves in exact ways. The direction says that time and history proceed in a line, not a circle. We make a sequence that suggests a past, present, and future. When we make a timeline of historical events, we create a graphic representation of how we in Western secular society think about time. Western historical thought is based on certain assumptions about the nature of time. Over the eons, different cultures and peoples have held different beliefs about the nature of time.