About Annalium
What if you could see what was happening everywhere in the world at any moment in history?
Annalium is a free, browser-based exploration tool for world history. Pan a world map, scrub a vertical multi-track timeline, and see the events and political boundaries of any era — with the page itself styled in an era-appropriate visual theme. It is powered by Wikipedia in nine languages.
What makes it different
- The map redraws borders as you scrub time. Move the selection to 700 CE and you see Tang, Abbasid, Byzantine, and Carolingian borders — not modern ones.
- A “Rivers of History” multi-track timeline. Vertical columns per civilization (China · Europe · Mid-East · South Asia) with a selection band crossing all of them, so you see what was happening simultaneously across the world.
- Era-appropriate visual themes. A default theme works everywhere; a Tang dynasty theme ships at launch with warm earth tones and a 大唐盛世 banner. New themes can be contributed as packages.
- Nine languages of Wikipedia. Content is ingested from Wikipedia in English, Chinese, Japanese, Arabic, Spanish, French, German, Russian, and Korean — because the same event is written differently by different people in different languages.
How it works
Events are pre-indexed from Wikidata and Wikipedia (not queried live), so the map stays fast. Each event links back to its Wikipedia source, and political polygons are drawn for the era you are viewing rather than today’s borders.
Free & open
Annalium is free to use and always will be. Event text and titles come from Wikipedia (CC-BY-SA); base map data is © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL). Running the servers costs real money — if the map is useful to you, you can help cover the bills via the Support link in the menu.
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