History World Timelines

While reading the Technology Tidbits blog, I saw this awesome website that I wish I had known about before, especially while writing history papers.

How many times have you been either writing a history paper or studying for a history test and suddenly realized that you are completely confused about the order of events associated with an event in the world's past?  Maybe it's a war, economic crisis, or revolution.  What happened first?  What caused it?  Well, my friends, I have found the solution to this problem: Historyworld Timelines.  With this website, you can search a particular event (don't forget to use parenthesis) and see all of the events associated with that timeline.  For instance, if you type "world war I" the very first "cause" of World War I is a planned attack by Germany in 1895 against France and Russia and it goes on from there.  The end of the war is on June 21, 1919.  You can look at everything in between without missing any of the all to often missed facts.  You can also search by year.  And, if you want to, you can search from the "Big Bang" to now.  Although, I think that that might be a little too much reading for one person.

The only flaw that I have with this tool is that you cannot jump ahead in a timeline.  Using the World War I example I used earlier, I can not go to the year 1918 of World War I.  I just have to keep clicking next until I get to where I want to go.  There is a timeline on the left that lets you pick a decade, but nothing that let's you pick a specific point.  Other than that.  I have no issues with this website and I think it is awesome.  Here it is again: Historyworld Timelines.