Explore — try these views

Every link opens the live map and timeline at an exact place and time. No login, no install. The URL in your address bar is the share link — copy it to share any view you discover.

• Eurasia, 600–900 CE →
  The default sweep — Byzantine–Sassanid wars, the early Tang, and everything in between, end to end across Eurasia.
• Tang China & Abbasid Baghdad, 700–900 CE →
  Two golden ages in the same window, at opposite ends of Eurasia — the core Annalium idea.
• The Mongol expansion, 1200–1300 →
  The conquests of Western Xia and the Jin, the sieges of Bukhara and Samarkand, the sweep west.
• The Black Death, 1340–1360 →
  The plague years across Europe and the Middle East, alongside the early Hundred Years' War.
• The world in 1492 →
  What else was happening — far from the Atlantic — the decade Columbus crossed.
• The world around 1914 →
  The decade of the First World War, worldwide: revolutions, earthquakes, and campaigns far from the Western Front.
• The Space Race, 1960–1972 →
  Sputnik, Mercury, Apollo 8 and 11 — the science and spaceflight of the 1960s, on one map.
• Renaissance Europe, 1450–1600 →
  Shown with the Renaissance period theme — the page chrome itself shifts to the era.
• Rome at its height, 100–200 CE →
  The empire near its greatest extent — the Dacian Wars and the frontier. A deliberately sparse, focused era.

Make your own

Pan and zoom to any region, scrub the timeline to a window, and the URL becomes a shareable link. Add a category to the end — /Conflict, /Science, /Culture — to filter.

Want the background? Read the guides on what was happening at the same moment in history.

Data from Wikipedia/Wikidata (CC-BY-SA); boundaries from OpenHistoricalMap (ODbL). Spotted a wrong date or border? Email [email protected].