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log10-timeline

Python script and web service to generate log-scale PDF timelines from arbitrary event data

There are two ways to generate timelines:

Fork the repo and run the python script manually
Enter event data in JSON format in the box below, and click 'generate'

Sample Output

Event Data

{
  "title": "Human evolution",
  "events": [
    {
      "date": "13.8 BYA",
      "title": "Big bang"
    },
    {
      "date": "13.6 BYA",
      "title": "First stars"
    },
    {
      "date": "12.7 BYA",
      "title": "First exoplanets"
    },
    {
      "date": "11.7 BYA",
      "title": "First galaxies"
    },
    {
      "date": "6.4 BYA",
      "title": "Earth-like planets form"
    },
    {
      "date": "4.57 BYA",
      "title": "Sun forms"
    },
    {
      "date": "4.56 BYA",
      "title": "Proto-earth forms"
    },
    {
      "date": "4.4 BYA",
      "title": "Oceans on earth"
    },
    {
      "date": "4.05 BYA",
      "title": "Life"
    },
    {
      "date": "2.1 BYA",
      "title": "Earliest multi-cellular life"
    },
    {
      "date": "320 MYA",
      "title": "First reptiles / brains?"
    },
    {
      "date": "231 MYA",
      "title": "First dinosaurs"
    },
    {
      "date": "66 MYA",
      "title": "Cretaceous extinction (asteroid)"
    },
    {
      "date": "60 MYA",
      "title": "First primates"
    },
    {
      "date": "6 MYA",
      "title": "Last common ancestor (humans & chimps)"
    },
    {
      "date": "2.6 MYA",
      "title": "Australopithecus made stone tools"
    },
    {
      "date": "2.2 MYA",
      "title": "First homo"
    },
    {
      "date": "1.5 MYA",
      "title": "Homo erectus & First use of fire"
    },
    {
      "date": "300 KYA",
      "title": "New homo sapiens fossils found in Morocco?"
    },
    {
      "date": "160 KYA",
      "title": "Anatomically modern humans in Ethiopia"
    },
    {
      "date": "120 KYA",
      "title": "Neanderthals & Homo Sapiens"
    },
    {
      "date": "40 KYA",
      "title": "Earliest cave paintings"
    },
    {
      "date": "12 KYA",
      "title": "Beginning of agriculture revolution"
    },
    {
      "date": "10 KYA",
      "title": "End of ice age"
    },
    {
      "date": "3300 YA",
      "title": "More advanced agriculture"
    }
  ]
}

Contribute

Want to customize the timelines? Pull requests very welcome in the repo.