The archive, read across nations
The world, in order
Every chronicle in Terralore is written nation by nation. This is the other axis.
Pick a period and read what was happening everywhere in it — the same verified records, with the same citations, laid side by side across the whole archive. The buckets widen as they go back, because the record does too: decades once the archive thickens after 1800, centuries for the rest of recorded history, millennia before 1000 BCE, and a single page for the deep prehistory of our species, where the record is measured in hundreds of thousands of years rather than reigns.
- Sourced events
- 4,740
- Nations
- 184
- References
- 3,607
- Periods
- 60
Earliest record 3,600,000 BCE · latest 2026
Bands are drawn to the busiest period, square-root scaled so sparse ages stay visible; each band takes the pigment of its period’s dominant category. The true count sits beside every band.
Deep time and the ancient world
Sparse by nature — what survives from before the common era survives in stone, sediment and a handful of chronicles.
Deep prehistory
Before 10,000 BCE
15 events · 12 nations · 0.3% · mostly Peoples & Migration
The 10th millennium BCE
9999–9000 BCE
3 events · 3 nations · 0.1% · mostly Peoples & Migration
The 9th millennium BCE
8999–8000 BCE
2 events · 2 nations · 0.0% · mostly Peoples & Migration
The 8th millennium BCE
7999–7000 BCE
4 events · 4 nations · 0.1% · mostly Peoples & Migration
The 7th millennium BCE
6999–6000 BCE
1 events · 1 nation · 0.0% · mostly Formation
The 5th millennium BCE
4999–4000 BCE
3 events · 3 nations · 0.1% · mostly Peoples & Migration
The 4th millennium BCE
3999–3000 BCE
11 events · 8 nations · 0.2% · mostly Culture & Ideas
The 3rd millennium BCE
2999–2000 BCE
32 events · 25 nations · 0.7% · mostly Formation
The 2nd millennium BCE
1999–1000 BCE
35 events · 23 nations · 0.7% · mostly Formation
The 10th century BCE
999–900 BCE
21 events · 19 nations · 0.4% · mostly Peoples & Migration
The 9th century BCE
899–800 BCE
5 events · 5 nations · 0.1% · mostly Formation
The 8th century BCE
799–700 BCE
11 events · 9 nations · 0.2% · mostly Formation
The 7th century BCE
699–600 BCE
6 events · 5 nations · 0.1% · mostly War & Rupture
The 6th century BCE
599–500 BCE
22 events · 16 nations · 0.5% · mostly Politics & Power
The 5th century BCE
499–400 BCE
14 events · 12 nations · 0.3% · mostly Peoples & Migration
The 4th century BCE
399–300 BCE
22 events · 15 nations · 0.5% · mostly War & Rupture
The 3rd century BCE
299–200 BCE
25 events · 22 nations · 0.5% · mostly Formation
The 2nd century BCE
199–100 BCE
13 events · 13 nations · 0.3% · mostly War & Rupture
The 1st century BCE
99–1 BCE
22 events · 20 nations · 0.5% · mostly Politics & Power
The common era
The record thickens as it approaches the present: written archives, then printing, then states that document themselves.
The 1st century
1–99
20 events · 20 nations · 0.4% · mostly War & Rupture
The 2nd century
100–199
20 events · 16 nations · 0.4% · mostly Culture & Ideas
The 3rd century
200–299
15 events · 13 nations · 0.3% · mostly Culture & Ideas
The 4th century
300–399
21 events · 18 nations · 0.4% · mostly Religion
The 5th century
400–499
17 events · 15 nations · 0.4% · mostly Religion
The 6th century
500–599
28 events · 28 nations · 0.6% · mostly Religion
The 7th century
600–699
54 events · 39 nations · 1% · mostly War & Rupture
The 8th century
700–799
37 events · 32 nations · 0.8% · mostly Religion
The 9th century
800–899
52 events · 38 nations · 1% · mostly Formation
The 10th century
900–999
51 events · 43 nations · 1% · mostly Formation
The 11th century
1000–1099
76 events · 57 nations · 2% · mostly War & Rupture
The 12th century
1100–1199
53 events · 38 nations · 1% · mostly Politics & Power
The 13th century
1200–1299
116 events · 73 nations · 2% · mostly Politics & Power
The 14th century
1300–1399
109 events · 69 nations · 2% · mostly Politics & Power
The 15th century
1400–1499
149 events · 94 nations · 3% · mostly War & Rupture
The 16th century
1500–1599
260 events · 125 nations · 5% · mostly War & Rupture
The 17th century
1600–1699
170 events · 95 nations · 4% · mostly Politics & Power
The 18th century
1700–1799
208 events · 115 nations · 4% · mostly Politics & Power
The 1800s
1800–1809
56 events · 42 nations · 1% · mostly Politics & Power
The 1810s
1810–1819
73 events · 49 nations · 2% · mostly Politics & Power
The 1820s
1820–1829
74 events · 50 nations · 2% · mostly Politics & Power
The 1830s
1830–1839
70 events · 52 nations · 1% · mostly Politics & Power
The 1840s
1840–1849
72 events · 60 nations · 2% · mostly Politics & Power
The 1850s
1850–1859
43 events · 40 nations · 0.9% · mostly Politics & Power
The 1860s
1860–1869
106 events · 74 nations · 2% · mostly Politics & Power
The 1870s
1870–1879
70 events · 54 nations · 1% · mostly Politics & Power
The 1880s
1880–1889
77 events · 59 nations · 2% · mostly Colonisation
The 1890s
1890–1899
106 events · 64 nations · 2% · mostly Colonisation
The 1900s
1900–1909
88 events · 61 nations · 2% · mostly Politics & Power
The 1910s
1910–1919
149 events · 93 nations · 3% · mostly War & Rupture
The 1920s
1920–1929
106 events · 74 nations · 2% · mostly Politics & Power
The 1930s
1930–1939
109 events · 81 nations · 2% · mostly Politics & Power
The 1940s
1940–1949
243 events · 109 nations · 5% · mostly Politics & Power
The 1950s
1950–1959
145 events · 88 nations · 3% · mostly Politics & Power
The 1960s
1960–1969
224 events · 110 nations · 5% · mostly Politics & Power
The 1970s
1970–1979
217 events · 112 nations · 5% · mostly Politics & Power
The 1980s
1980–1989
185 events · 110 nations · 4% · mostly Politics & Power
The 1990s
1990–1999
275 events · 132 nations · 6% · mostly Politics & Power
The 2000s
2000–2009
195 events · 116 nations · 4% · mostly Politics & Power
The 2010s
2010–2019
178 events · 111 nations · 4% · mostly Politics & Power
The 2020s
2020–2029
156 events · 98 nations · 3% · mostly Politics & Power