This is a list of timelines currently on Wikipedia. Overview There are several types of timeline articles. Historical timelines show the significant historical events and developments for a specific topic, over the course of centuries or millennia. Graphical timelines provide a visual representation for the timespan of multiple events that have a particular duration, over the course of centuries or millennia. Timelines by year are timelines for one particular year that show the developments for that year within the topical area of that timeline. Lists of years or Tables of years are indexes that list all of the individual timelines by year that pertain to a specific topic. Timespans next to the timeline articles listed here include the date of the earliest item included in the linked timeline article. Types General History Arts Biographical Contemporary culture Entertainment Comic books Crime Disasters Economics Environment Fictional The following is a list of fictional timelines. Ex Machina timeline – comic book series created by Brian K. Vaughan and Tony Harris, and published by DC Comics under the WildStorm imprint. Foundation series timeline – events detailed in Isaac Asimov's Foundation series. New Crobuzon timeline – fictional city-state created by China Miéville. Timeline of Star Trek – science fiction television series, later expanded to other media. Ware Tetralogy timeline – four science fiction novels by author Rudy Rucker. Future History, a list of future events chronicled in much of the science fiction of Robert A. Heinlein, and one of the first fictional timelines published by an author. Peoples, nations, cultures and geographical Timeline of food Chronology of colonialism Timeline of country and capital changes Timeline of maritime migration and exploration Timeline of the European migrant crisis Ancient civilizations Extant civilizations Supranational entities and regions, peoples Sovereign states Subnational regions and cities, narrow timelines Health Law Military Military conflicts Philosophy Politics Religion Ayyavazhi Timeline of Ayyavazhi history (1809–present) Buddhism Timeline of Buddhism (563 BCE – present) Christianity Hinduism Timeline of Hinduism Timeline of Hindu texts Islam Timeline of Islamic history (545–present) Timeline of the Muslim presence in the Iberian Peninsula Jainism Timeline of Jainism Judaism Sikhism Sikh gurus (1469–1666) Science The Cosmic Calendar is a method to visualize the chronology of the universe, scaling its current age of 13.8 billion years to a single year in order to help intuit it for pedagogical purposes in science education or popular science. Timeline of scientific discoveries (17th century