History

Timelines, histomaps, chronological, synchronic and synoptic charts, genealogies

There are many other great chronological charts and timelines besides those found in the David Rumsey Map Collection and Daniel Rosenberg and Anthony Grafton’s excellent book Cartographies of Time. This collection contains rare or previously lesser-, or entirely unknown information graphics and data visualization which tell the history of a subject. The collection is constantly growing. For the best resolution available, click on the link in the caption!

Current number of works: 51
Thanks to Paul Kahn for the recommendations.

There is another collection about relations, connections, links, hierarchies, networks too!

Connections

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General history, countries, nations

Tira de Tepechpan (detail. Fol. 2, 3, 4, 7, 8). A chronological scroll which tells the story of the Chimicheca and Colhua people from the foundation of Tepechpan in 1334 to 1596. Ca. 1596. Image courtesy of Bibliotheque National de France/Gallica. Public domain. Country: Mexico/Aztec Empire. Scope: Local. Type: timeline.

Jacobus Scheltema: Biographical map of important Dutch people. Amsterdam: Jan ten Brink Gerritsz, 1805. Image courtesy of Rijksmuseum. Public domain. Country: Netherlands. Scope: Netherlands. Type: bar, timeline

Unknown: The Reign of George III. From his Accession to the Throne October 25th 1760 to the Present Period. Handkerchief. 1812. Image courtesy of Victoria and Albert Museum, London. Country: England. Scope. George III. Type: spiral timeline

Ferdinand Ritter von Dresdnern: Von den Regierungs-Jahren Kaiser Karls des Grossen im achten Jahrhunderte angefangen, bis zum Abschlusse des Münchner Staatsvertrages im Jahre 1816. Wien, 1826. Image courtesy of ÖNB. Public domain. Country: Austria. Scope: Austria. Type: vertical streamgraph

Joachim Lelewel: Ten Liquid Centuries of Ancient Poland, or a Chronology for the Image of Polish History (Dziesięć wieków dawnej Polski : oraz krajów i mocarstw z którymi ściślejsze związki lub bliższe stosunki miała). Warsaw, 1828-1829. Image courtesy of National Library of Poland/Polona. Three versions exist. Public domain. Country: Poland. Scope: Poland. Type: vertical stream

Joseph Ferdinand Damberger and Johann Georg Serz: Fürstentafel der Staaten-Geaschichte. Regensburg/Ratisbon: Friedrich Pustet, 1831. Image courtesy of ÖNB Digital. See our article here. Country: Germany. Scope: European royal houses. Type: genealogical timeline.

Johann Jakob Otto August Rühle von Lilienstern and Carl Brügner (engraving): Historiogramm des Preussischen Staats von 1280 bis 1830 n. Chr.: im sÿnchronistischen Verhältniss zu den Nachbarstaaten. Berlin: Ernst Siegfried Mittler, 1834. Image courtesy of National Library of Poland/Polona. Public domain. Country: Prussia/Germany. Scope: Prussia/Germany. Type: vertical streamgraph

Nikolai Ivanovich Pavlishchev: Chronographic Map of Russia (Хронографическая карта России). copy? Original in Nikolai Ivanovich Pavlishchev: Historical Atlas of Russia (Исторический атлас России). Poland, Warsaw, 1845. Image courtes of National Library of Poland/Polona. Public domain. Country: Poland/Russia. Scope: Russia. Type: vertical stream.

Eduardo Chao and Mauricio Sala y Canal: Cuadro sinóptico de la Historia de España por Chao ; grabado bajo la protección de S.M. el rey a quien lo dedica su más humilde servidor Mauricio Sala y Canal. Madrid: Furné hijo y. comp. 1846? Image courtesy of Biblioteca de la Real Academia de História. Public Domain. Country: Spain. Scope: Local. Type: vertical stream.

Rémy?: Nouveau Carré Séculaire Synoptique. Paris: Frick, 1852. Image courtesy of Musée Carnevalet Histoire de Paris/Pariscollections. Public domain. Country: France. Scope: France. Type: vertical block diagram

Jacop van Lennep, Theodor Brüggemann and Charles Rochussen: Timeline of the History of the Fatherland. Haarlem: Arie Cornelis Kruseman. ca. 1855. Image courtesy of Rijksmuseum. Country: Netherlands. Scope: Netherlands. Type: pictorial timeline

Stanislaw Zaranski: Universal history arranged in the style of yearbooks, chronicles, and proper history; with a symbolic-chronological and geographical picture of events. (Dzieje powszechne ułożone na wzór roczników, kronik i właściwej historyi ; z dziejobrazem symboliczno-chronologicznym i geograficznym). Tables 1-10. Vienna: Zamarski. 1857. Images courtesy of ÖNB. Public domain. Country: Poland. Scope: Europe. Type: Polish/Jazwinski method, pictorial

Marie Vadon: Tableau d’Histoire de France. Paris: Ed. Bouys, 1859. Image courtesy of BNF/Gallica. Public domain. Country: France. Scope: France. Type: circular diagram

Uknown: Quadro Cronológico-Histórico 1. da Pérsia até 1848 / 2. da Monarquía Inglésa até ao reinado da rainha Vitória, em 1837 / 3. das dynastias da Dinamarca - Escócia - Noruega - Sévia até 1863. After 1863. Images courtesy of Biblioteca Nacional do Portugal. Public domain. Country: Portugal. Scope: Europe and Persia. Type: circular/polar.

Vicente Pérez Rosales: Cuadro cronológico de la historia moderna de Chile. Hamburg: Anstalt von Gustav W. Seitz, 1862/1867?. Image courtesy of Biblioteca Nacional de Chile. Public domain. Country: Chile. Scope: Chile.

Uknown: Wall-chart of United States history, literature and geography. Bloomington, Indiana: S.C. Dodds & Co., ca. 1879. Image courtesy of Library of Congress. Public domain. Country: USA. Scope: USA. Type: timeline, bar, area

Gyula Rakssányi: The Synchronic Map of the Hungarian War of Independence and Revolution of 1848/1849. Original: 1879. Reprinted in: Somogyi E. (ed). Magyar Lexikon. Vol. 17. Táblák. Budapest: Rautmann, 1885. Own collection. Public domain. Country: Hungary. Scope: Local. Type: horizontal stream/river.

Gyula Rakssányi: The Synchronic Map of the History of Hungary. Original tableau: 1879. Reprinted in: Somogyi E. (ed). Magyar Lexikon. Vol. 17. Táblák. Budapest: Rautmann, 1885. Own collection. Public domain. Country: Hungary. Scope: Local. Type: horizontal stream/river.

Léon Vaquez: Graphique de L’Histoire de France. Paris: N. Nathan, 1885. Image courtesy of BNF/Gallica. Public domain. Country: France. Scope: France. Type: area chart.

Franz Schmid: Graphische Darstellung der Entwicklung von Österreich-Ungarn. Vienna: Sieger, 1894. Image courtesy of ÖNB. Public domain. Country: Austro-Hungarian Monarchy. Scope: Austria, Hungary. Type: timeline, bar chart.

Otto Berndt: Die Schwankungen der kriegerischen Spannung in Europa im 19. Jahrhundert (The fluctuations of warlike tension in Europe in the 19th Century). In Otto Berndt: Zahl im Kriege, statistische Daten aus der neueren Kriegsgeschichte in graphischer Darstellung. Wien: Freytag & Berndt, 1897, pp. 19–20. Image courtesy of ÖNB. Public domain. Country: Austria. Scope: Europe. Type: area chart

Charles Foster Kent: Jewish and Contemporary Chronology from 597 to 165 B.C. In Charles Foster Kent: The Historical Bible. The Makers and Teachers of Judaism. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1904. Image courtesy of the Library of University of Minnesota/Hathi Trust. Public domain. Country: USA. Scope: Land of Israel. Type: synchronic chart

Unknown: A Chronological Chart of the Jewish Kingdom. London Printing Company, 1920. Image courtesy of the Amnon Dor Collection/National Library of Israel. Public domain. Country: UK. Scope: Israel. Type: circles on a timeline

Constantin Ștefănescu Amza: Graphic History of the War of the Romanian Nation 1916–1919 (Istoric Grafic al Războiului Neamului Românesc 1916–1919.). Bucharest, 1921. Image courtesy of Romanian National Library. Public domain. Country: Romania. Scope: Local. Type: column chart.

Władysław Gostynski and Józef Michał Bazewicz: Wykres dziejów ojczystych (Diagram of the history of the homeland). Warsaw, 1923–1928. Image courtesy of National Library of Poland/ Polona. Public domain. Country: Poland. Scope: Poland. Type: vertical stream/area chart.

Organization of Autonomous Republics and Autonomous Oblasts and Their Further Transformation. In Stalin’s Constitution of Socialism (Сталинская конституция социализма). Moscow: All-Union Institute of Graphic Statistics Isostat: Central Scientific and Cultural University of the USSR State Planning Committee. Lit. Institute of IZOSTAT, 1937. Image courtesy of Russian State Library of St. Petersburg. Public domain. Country: Russia. Scope: Local. Type: circle timeline

Henrik Péchy: A történelem hullámai (The waves of history). In: Henrik Péchy: A történelmi hullámelmélet és a történelmi jövő kiszámítása I. (The theory of historical waves and calculating the historical future I.). Budapest: Private Publication. 1938. Appendix. Image courtesy of the Library of the Parliament of Hungary. Digitized by Dániel Takács (Library of the Faculty of Law of ELTE). With permission. Country: Hungary. Scope: Global. Type: area chart

René Bacharach: Tableau Synoptique des Écuyers Francais de XVIe au XXc Siécle. 1961. Image courtesy of Bibliothéque Mondiale du Cheval. Country: France. Scope: France. Type: chronological network

Louis-Henri Fournet: Tableau synoptique de l'histoire du monde pendant les cinquante derniers siècles. Fountenay-sous-Bois: Sides, 1987. Image from here. Country: France. Scope: universal history. Type: area chart

Religions

Hugh Pearson: A Chronological Chart Exhibiting the Rise and Progress of Christianity and of Mohammedism Throughout the World. In Hugh Pearson: A dissertation on the propagation of Christianity in Asia. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1808. Image courtesy of Library of Congress/Wikimedia Commons. Public domain. Country: England. Scope: Christianism and Islam. Type: area chart

Thomas Snowdon Peckston (design) and Edward Turrell (engraver): A Chronological Chart intended to show at one View which of the Patriarchs were Cotemporaries, how long they were so, and from thence to decuce the great probability of Moses having the best account of the Creation, Fall, etc. even if the Accounts had been handed down to him by Oral Tradition only. In Thomas Snowdon Peckston: A description of a chronological chart of the patriarchs, from Adam to Moses. London: J. Hatchard and Son, Piccadilly. 1828. App. 1. Image courtesy of The British Library. Public domain. Country: England. Scope: Judaism/Christianity. Type: bar chart.

Edward Denny: A Prophetical Stream Of Time; or An Outline of God’s Dealings With Man, From The Creation To The End Of All Things. London: G. Morrish, ca. 1850. Image courtesy of University of Manchester, Brethren Collection. Public domain. Country: England. Scope: Christianity. Type: vertical timeline.

Abbé Augustin Michel: Tableau synchronique et universel de la vie des peuples, carte XVII. Paris, Orléans, Rouen: Dumoulin, Jacob, Fleury, 1865. Image courtesy of Bibliotheque National France/Gallica. Public domain. Country: France. Scope: universal. Type: line/area chart.

Charles Taze Russell: Chart of the Ages. 1881. In Food for Thinking Christians. Image courtesy of Archive.org. Public domain. Country: USA. Scope: Christianity. Type: timeline/diagram.

L.A. Waddell: Genealogical tree of Lamaic sects. In H.H. Risley: The gazetteer of Sikhim. Calcutta: Bengal Secretariat Press, 1894. Image courtesy of Staatsbibliothek Berlin. Public domain. Country: India. Scope: Buddhism. type: flow

Stanley Lane-Poole: Genealogical Charts of Muslim Dynasties. The Mohammedan Dynasties. 1894. Image courtesy of Archive.org. Public domain. Country: USA Scope: the Muslim world. Type: area chart.

Daniel Hill: Daniel Hill's Chronological Chart of Old Testament Times. Richmond: M. Cullaton. 1895. Image courtesy of Archive.org/Earlham College. Public domain. Country: USA. Scope: Israel/Judaism/Christianity. Type: bar chart

Unknown: Prophetic chart, illustrating Jehovah's dealings with the Jew, the Gentile, and the church of God. Late 19th, early 20th century. Image courtesy of University of Manchester, Brethren Collection. Public domain. Country: UK. Scope: Christianity. Type: timeline

Unknown: Book of Mormon Chronology Chart. Department of Seminaries and Institutes of Religion, 1974 Image courtesy of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Country: US. Scope: Christianity, Mormonism. Type: area, timeline

Art, architecture, literature and music

Archibald Barrington: Chronological Chart of British Architecture. York: Roake and Varty, 1843. Image courtesy of The Map House. Country: England. Scope: England. Type: vertical timeline

Francis Bedford: Chronological Chart of Anglican Church Architecture. York: R. Sunter. 1844. Image courtesy of Getty Research Institute/Archive-org. Public domain. Country: England. Scope: England. Type: illustrated chronological table

Karl von Sonklar: Graphische Darstellung der Geschichte der Malerei von Giunto Pisano und Guido da Siena bis auf Louis Jacques David und Jacob Asmund Carstens: bestehend aus zehn Tableaux sammt kurzgefasster kunstgeschichtlicher Erläuterung. Table I. Vienna, 1853. Image courtesy of ÖNB. Public domain. Country: Austria. Scope: Europe. Type: Networked

Karl von Sonklar: Graphische Darstellung der Geschichte der Malerei von Giunto Pisano und Guido da Siena bis auf Louis Jacques David und Jacob Asmund Carstens: bestehend aus zehn Tableaux sammt kurzgefasster kunstgeschichtlicher Erläuterung. Table I–VI (out of X). Vienna, 1853. Image courtesy of ÖNB. Public domain. Country: Austria. Scope: Europe. Type: network/dendrogram

Dr. Cäsar Flaischlen: Graphische Litteratur-Tafel: Die Deutsche Litteratur und der Einfluss fremder Litteraturen auf ihren Verlauf vom Beginn einer schriftlichen Ueberlieferung an bis heute in graphischer Darstellung. Berlin: B. Behr, 1890. Image courtesy of Bayerische Staatsbibliothek/MDZ. Public domain. Country: Germany. Scope: Europe. Type: vertical stream.

Unknown: Deutschland. Die Baukunst des Mittelalters. (Medieval German Architecture) Chronologische Übersicht Tafel I 900–1135, Tafel II 1135–1250. Druck Die Baukunst des Mittelalters Tafel 4 und 6. 1890. Image courtesy of Landesarchiv NRW. Public domain. Country: Germany. Scope: Germany and Dania, and the Baltic countries. Type: timeline

Heinrich von Geymüller: Graphische Darstellung der Entwickelung Der Perioden und Phasen Des Renaissance-Stils in Frankreich von 1475–1895. In Josef Durm (ed.): Handbuch der Architektur. Teil 2. Die Baustile. Historische und Technische Entwickelung. Band 6. Die Baukunst der Renaissance in Frankreich. Heft. 1. Darmstadt: Diehl. 1898. pp. 42–43. Image courtesy of Bamberg Staatsbibliothek. MDZ. Country: Germany. Scope: Italy/France. Type: multiple

William Wallace: Chronological chart showing the development of music as contrasted with that of science, literature and other arts. In William Wallace: The Threshold of Music. An Inquiry into the Development of the Musical Sense. London: Macmillan, 1908. Image courtesy of Cornell University Library/Archive.org. Public domain. Country: England. Scope: Europe. Type: bar chart

Gerard Parker Smith: The Dowdeswell Chart. Chronological chart of artists of the Dutch, Flemish, French, German, Spanish and British schools of painting ; from 1350 to 1800. London: Dowdeswell & Dowdeswells ; London : Griggs & Sons, 1909. Image courtesy of Halle (Saale) Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Sachsen-Anhalt. Public domain. Country: England. Scope: Europe. Type: network diagram.

Giuseppe Fattorusso: Italian Schools of Painting. The Renaissance in Italy. New York and Florence, 1922. Image courtesy of Cleveland Museum of Art Library. Internet Archive. Public Domain. Country: Italy. Scope: Italy. Type: network. diagram

Paul Ligeti (Ligeti Pál): Die Kunst Greichenlands. (The Art of Greece). In Paul Ligeti: Der Weg aus dem Chaos: eine Deutung des Weltgeschehens aus dem Rhythmus der Kunstentwicklung. München: Callwey. 1931, Abbildung 146. Image courtesy of Heidelberg University Library. Public Domain. Country: Germany. Scope: Greece. Type: wave diagram

Paul Ligeti (Ligeti Pál): Die Musik der abendlandischen Kultur. (The Music of Western Culture). In Paul Ligeti: Der Weg aus dem Chaos: eine Deutung des Weltgeschehens aus dem Rhythmus der Kunstentwicklung. München: Callwey. 1931, p. 78, Abbildung 183. Image courtesy of Heidelberg University Library. Public Domain. Country: Germany. Scope: Europe. Type: wave diagram

Albert Gerhauser (Házy): Életrajzi táblázat a magyar irodalomtörténet tanításához (Bibliographic table for teaching the history of Hungarian literature). Szeged: Tett, 1936. Own collection. Public domain. Country: Hungary. Scope: Hungary. Type: bar timeline with typography