Editing Timeline (section)

==Uses==
{{main|List of timelines}}
Timelines are often used in education<ref>{{Cite journal |last1=DeCoito |first1=Isha |last2=Vacca |first2=Stefano |date=2020-10-30 |title=The Case for Digital Timelines in Teaching and Teacher Education |url=http://www.ijede.ca/index.php/jde/article/view/1171 |journal=International Journal of e-Learning & Distance Education / Revue internationale du e-learning et la formation à distance |language=en |volume=35 |issue=1 |issn=1916-6818 |access-date=March 11, 2022 |archive-date=November 24, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221124112044/https://www.ijede.ca/index.php/jde/article/view/1171 |url-status=live }}</ref> to help students and researchers with understanding the order or chronology of historical events and trends for a subject. To show time on a specific scale on an axis, a timeline can visualize time lapses between events, durations (such as lifetimes or wars), and the simultaneity or the overlap of spans and events.

=== In historical studies ===
Timelines are particularly useful for studying history, as they convey a sense of change over time. Wars and social movements are often shown as timelines. Timelines are also useful for [[biography|biographies]]. Examples include:

* [[Timeline of the civil rights movement]]
* [[Timeline of European exploration]]
* [[Timeline of European imperialism]]
* [[Timeline of Solar System exploration]]
* [[Timeline of United States history]]
* [[Timeline of World War I]]
* [[List of timelines of World War II]]
*[[Timeline of religion]]

=== In natural sciences===
Timelines are also used in the natural world and sciences, such as in [[astronomy]], [[biology]], [[chemistry]], and [[geology]]:

*[[2009 swine flu pandemic timeline]]
*[[Chronology of the universe]]
*[[Geologic time scale]]
*[[Timeline of the evolutionary history of life]]
*[[Timeline of crystallography]]

=== In project management===
Another type of timeline is used for [[project management]]. Timelines help team members know what [[Milestone (project management)|milestones]] need to be achieved and under what time schedule. An example is establishing a project timeline in the implementation phase of the [[systems development life-cycle|life cycle of a computer system]].