History Year By Year

Discover the world’s most significant events since 3000 BCE through a detailed, dynamic, book-long timeline.

When did Hannibal cross the Alps? What caused the war of Jenkins’ Ear? Who was Rosa Parks? How did the Arab Spring unfold? Discover history’s most decisive moments when they happened, and where they all took place. Taking a chronological approach, Timelines of History invites you to explore momentous discoveries, ingenious inventions, and important events in the context of their time, wherever they occurred. Along the way you’ll meet charismatic leaders, brutal dictators, influential thinkers, and innovative scientists from every corner of the globe.

Follow in the footsteps of your human ancestors as they migrate around the planet, develop tools, harness fire, and paint cave walls. Learn how their descendants established great civilizations, founded huge empires, domesticated animals, built pyramids, produced great art, authored epic poems, and even traveled into space. There are wars and rebellions, voyages of adventure and discovery, extraordinary developments in technology, and incredible sporting feats.

Accessible to everyone, Timelines of History’s combination of bite-sized information, eye-catching images, crystal-clear maps, and memorable stats will delight history-lovers and make an ideal gift for trivia fans wanting facts at their fingertips. If you’ve ever wondered exactly what happened when – and where it all took place – this is the book for you.