Timeline Vocabulary

The study of events that occurred in the past.

• History

• Historian

• Century

• Decade

People that study the past.

• History

• Historians

• Circa

• Intervals

A visual representation used to easily see which events occurred before or after other events.

• Century

• Year

• Timeline

• History

The order in which events occurred.

• Timeline

• Chronological Order

• History

• Circa

365 days

• one year

• one decade

• one centry

10 Years

• one year

• one decade

• one century

One Century

• 365 days

• 100 years

• 10 years

Evenly spaced time between events.

• Intervals

• Historians

• Circa

Named after Pope Gregory XIII, introduced in 1582. Also known as the Western or Christian calendar

• Calendar

• History

• Gregorian Calendar

Designate dates that are approximate

• Circa

• Interval

• Calendar