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0130 BCE

Stop anywhere in time.

Drag the years below and the globe turns to that time. Each stop opens a different way in: events, people, journeys and topics.

Here is Egypt in 30 BCE, in the last days of Cleopatra, with what was happening there.

Four ways in

People: who lived there that year.

0230 BCE

Read the whole story.

Every place and every person opens into the full article, with its contents, key facts and pictures beside it.

031944

See the whole world at once.

Pick a year and see what was happening in every country, side by side.

041871

From space to the street.

From the whole planet down to one street corner in Chicago, in a single motion.

051969

Then to the Moon… and the stars beyond.

Pull back past the Earth and the Moon, out to the Sun and all eight planets.

061939–1945

History, one stop at a time.

Follow World War II from the invasion of Poland to Hiroshima, one stop at a time, its path drawn across the globe.

071994

Your year

Around the world in 1994

  • South AfricaDemocracy in South Africa
  • Rwanda1994 Genocide against Tutsi
  • HungaryBudapest Memorandum
Explore 1994
A postcard of 1994: one of that year's events on WikiWorld
Your postcard from 1994

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