It has been an amazing year for Histropedia, we have moved ever closer to achieving our vision of creating the world’s first interactive timeline of everything in history. With each new feature we deploy we place another stepping stone towards that end goal and excitement grows as we start to see the final vision take shape. We were also lucky enough this year to be given the opportunity of presenting Histropedia to the Wikimedia community during the annual Wikimania conference.

A collection of different timelines for 2014. We have a timeline of major events created directly from a Wikidata query, some timelines of top films and music of 2014 and a timeline of 2014 deaths. 2014 Events Open in main timeline site for more controls and features This timeline was created automatically using a Wikidata query, the timeline does not show people or published works. If you would like to create similar timeline for a different year, use the query url below and simply replace each 2014 (marked in red) with the year you would like to create a timeline for.

Explore the History of Christmas music! With songs and albums from the modern day all the way back to 1530 you’re sure to find the perfect Christmas song. Make sure to use the YouTube tab on these timelines, you should be able to listen to the song or album straight from the timeline. Christmas compilation albums Open in main timeline site for more controls and features There are over a hundred Christmas compilation albums on this timeline, find you favourite "

From films where the plot revolves around Christmas, like Miracle on 34th Street, to films set during the holidays, like Die Hard, there are hundreds of films that can be classed as Christmas films, and at the bottom of the post you can find a massive timeline showing over 400 of them. But first we have some other timelines to share with you. Films based on A Christmas Carol Open in main timeline site for more controls and features By far the most famous, most adapted and probably the best Christmas story ever told is A Christmas Carol.

25 years ago today the first episode of the Simpsons aired on network television. 561 episodes and 26 seasons later the animated show is the longest running American sitcom. One of the most popular TV shows of all time, The Simpsons has influenced many adult-orientated animated sitcoms and has won dozens of awards including 31 Primetime Emmy Awards. To celebrate the anniversary we have timelines for seasons and episodes of the show and an opportunity to help us create the ultimate timeline of Simpsons episodes.

This tutorial will teach you how create an instant timeline based on a specific location and radius. Just like the “descendants of” timelines from the previous tutorial these location based timelines are made using Wikidata queries To create the query we are going to select a specific location using a geo-coordinate and set a radius in km. The query then will then populate the timeline with all the events that have their location set within the defined radius.

Stephen King's full body of work is considerable, containing over 200 novels, novellas, non-fiction books, screenplays, poems and short stories. By using Histropedia’s ability to create timelines from Wikipedia categories we have individual timelines for each type of work, as well as one timeline containing them all. Explore the embedded timelines below or scroll down for a list of all the timelines of works by Stephen King. The second part of this post also has information on how the timelines were made, how we will soon be importing tens of thousands of timelines and how you can help to improve them.

This timeline shows the chronology of publication of some of the most important works in the field of mathematics from all over the world. Timeline: Publications in mathematics Time Range: 1600 BC to present day Category: Science and Mathematics No of Events: 51 The timeline starts at the Rhind Mathematical Papyrus published in Ancient Egypt circa 1650 BC and stretches up to the modern day. It includes many publications in mathematics that revolutionised our understanding of the subject such as Isaac Newton's famous Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica, which also had profound implications for the study of Physics.

Useful Histropedia Links About Histropedia Timeline app Tour of features Ideas and feedback forum All knowledge base articles Featured Timelines Other Links Wikipedia Wikidata Below are the slides from our presentation at ISWC 2014, including slides representing the live portions of the presentation. With the slides you'll find any related knowledge base articles and links to the timelines used during the presentation. If you have any comments regarding the presentation please leave them in the comments.

For those who enjoy films based on comic book superhero characters we appear to are living in a golden age. With Marvel Studios releasing 10 big budget box office films so far, all set in the same universe, the hugely successful Christopher Nolan / Christian Bale Batman series and what some people have said might be too many Spider-Man movies. We've also had the 7 X-men movies, the Fantastic Four adaptations.

Discover the history of the Apollo program, private space flight, missions to Jupiter and more with these space exploration timelines Embedded timelines are read-only, click on the icon to open the timeline on the main site for full controls and all the features. Missions to Mars The red planet has long been an object of fascination, and continues to yield new mysteries as the different Rovers explore its surface. See also: Orbiter Missions to Mars Successful missions to Mars Apollo Program The program that succeeded in landing the first human on the surface of the moon.

Timeline: Novels by Charles Dickens Time Range: 1837 to 1870 Category: Literature No of Events: 20 Charles Dickens was born on February 7 1812, he is regarded as the greatest novelist of the Victorian period and is responsible for creating some of the world's most memorable characters.Including, Oliver Twist, Ebenezer Scrooge, Tiny Tim, The artful Dodger, David Copperfield and many more. His 1843 Novella, A Christmas Carol, is one of the most influential works ever written and has been adapted and has been adapted countless times: for theatre, film, television and opera.

New tutorial now available: Create instant location based timelines using Wikidata queries Our previous tutorial showed you how to use a Wikidata query to create a “descendants of” timeline. This time we are going to look at how we can combine some of the examples from the previous post to make more refined timelines and explore some other properties you can use to refine the query. If you haven’t read the previous post you probably want to take a look at it before continuing.

From Actors to Descendants of Queen Victoria we've been busy adding new timelines to our people category. We've embedded a few, but make sure you follow the link to see them all. UPDATE: You can now search for and add all of our people timelines (and more) straight from the search box on Histropedia. If you have a timeline you would like us to include on Histropedia let us know and we’ll add the best ones to search.

New tutorial now available: Create instant location based timelines using Wikidata queries Using the incredible querying power of Wikidata, Histropedia can now automatically create an instant timeline showing descendants of anyone who has a Wikipedia article. Don't worry if creating a timeline using a Wikidata Query sounds daunting and complicated, it's actually fairly simple, especially with our step by step guide to show you how it’s done. For this example we will be making a timeline showing descendants of Queen Victoria.

Priority Display, Embedded Timelines, Automatic timeline creation and more! Histropedia beta v0.6 was released recently and sees the arrival of some fundamental features towards our end vision, including some really cool new ways to make timelines. PRIORITY DISPLAY Keeping timelines organised by only showing you the most important event in any time period This is a major feature on the road to the timeline of everything. In order to allow the exploration of all of history, we need to create a suitable system of displaying large numbers of events without the timeline becoming overcrowded and unusable.

The Apollo program was the third human space flight program carried out by NASA, running from 1961 to 1975. On a mobile device? Unfortunately Histropedia isn't yet optimised for mobiles or tablets. For the best experience you’ll want to bookmark this and check it out on a desktop or laptop After a series of unmanned mission from 1961 to 1967, Apollo 1 was set to be the first manned mission of the Apollo program.

The 2014 FIFA World Cup is almost here. As excitement is building we have a World Cup Timeline, so you can explore every World Cup since football’s biggest competition began in 1930. You can get all the facts and stats for any year from the Wikipedia article in the reading window, and make sure you check out the YouTube tab! you’ll probably find highlights for that year’s competition. On a mobile device?

Continuing our current theme of the history of exploration today’s timeline looks at some of the most important explorers from the Age of Discovery. On a mobile device? Unfortunately Histropedia isn't yet optimised for mobiles or tablets. For the best experience you’ll want to bookmark this and check it out on the Desktop. "The Age of Discovery is a historical period of European global exploration that started in the early 15th century with the first Portuguese discoveries in the Atlantic Archipelagos and Africa, as well as the discovery of America by Spain in 1492, and the discovery of the ocean route to the East in 1498, and by a series of European naval expeditions across the Atlantic and later the Pacific, which continued until the 18th century"

The Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration Started in the late 19th century and continued till the end of the first quarter of the 20th century. The major objective of many of the expeditions was to be the first party to reach the Geographic South Pole. A feat accomplished by Roald Amundsen during his 1910 – 1912 expedition. Amundsen arrived just 5 weeks ahead of Robert Falcon Scott’s party of the Terra Nova expedition.