Inspiration — Some examples of timelines

Here you will find a few timeline examples as food for thought. Note the amount of rich detail, and how many don’t rely on the super traditional horizontal line.

Here’s a couple of links to sites that give a bit of background and examples.
http://www.historyshots.com/

http://dekstop.de/weblog/2006/01/visualization_of_numeric_data/

http://www.math.yorku.ca/SCS/Gallery/milestone/