Timelines

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A timeline is another way of looking at time. Timelines are timetables or chronologies of key events in a period of history. Timelines can also be used to plan future events - for example timelines for a project could document when various parts of a project should be started or completed.

Below is a simple time denoting when the thirteen colonies were admitted as states. The data is arranged in chronological order - that is from the first or earliest date to the last or latest date, which is typical for timelines.

Timelines can be arranged vertically or up and down as this one or horizontally. The range of dates can be narrow as this one which spans under twenty years or can be over millions of years as with geological timelines of prehistoric times.

Dec. 7, 1787	Delaware
Dec. 12, 1787	Pennsylvania
Dec. 18,1787	New Jersey
Jan. 2, 1788	Georgia
Jan. 9, 1788	Connecticut
Feb.6, 1788	Massachusetts
Apr. 28, 1788	Maryland
May 23, 1788	South Carolina
June 21, 1788	New Hampshire
June 25, 1788	Virginia
July 26, 1788	New York
Nov. 21, 1789	North Carolina
May 29, 1790	Rhode Island

Dates sometimes have BC or AD affixed to them. BC used to stand for Before Christ and now means Before the Common Time or Era (BCE). AD means Anno Domini or Year of the Lord.

The dates on a timeline with BC and AD dates looks something like the following: