World History Chart

The 75 people of Scripture with recorded birth years, arranged as a clock of history. Where someone sits around the dial is when they lived (4004 BC at the top, sweeping clockwise to Jesus); how far they sit out from the center is how many generations they are from Adam — so a lineage reads as a spiral winding outward through the ages, and contemporaries from different branches line up at the same clock position. Each arc is a lifespan (the long arcs near the center are the pre-Flood patriarchs who lived 900+ years); a dot is someone recorded with only a birth year. The colored bands name the era each person was born into.

Hover any mark for its dates and generation. Click a person to light up their whole line — ancestors spiraling in toward Adam, descendants out — and to open their page in a new tab. Click an era in the legend to isolate it; click empty space to clear. Scroll to zoom and drag to pan the crowded center (or use the +/− controls).