How to Make a Timeline

Whether you are making a timeline for your own personal goals or a timeline about history, you can easily make one that can lay out all of your events you want to record. Timelines are created to help people set goals or remember certain famous events in history. Learn how to make a timeline and record events or personal goals.

Difficulty: Easy

Instructions

1. Buy some white blank paper. If you want something bigger, you can buy a plastic piece that you can post on your wall or office wall, and use a felt-tip marker to record things.

2. Start by making a draft of your timeline. If you are recording history, goals and family history, then start with the earliest date you can remember.

3. Add dates, times and describe what happened on this specific date. If you are setting a goal timeline, then set dates you want for the future, and note down each goal you want to achieve.

4. Place what you have written on your draft onto the new white paper or plastic board. Make sure you include as much as possible for each date or goal date.

5. Add new dates and events as they happen in life, whether it is general world history, country history or your goals that have been achieved at the date you set.

6. Write down as many events that occur, and note each date, day and time, along with all of the details. Your timeline might be very important to someone someday and could even become valuable.