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. 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.
Dates are the Ussher-style birth/death years in the Theographic dataset (approximate, not precise). Radius is generation count from Adam; the 7 people with no genealogical path to Adam are placed by an estimated generation.
Antediluvian 14
- Adam 4004 BC – 3074 BC
- Eve 4004 BC – ?
- Cain 4003 BC – ?
- Abel 3938 BC – 3880 BC
- Seth 3874 BC – 2692 BC
- Enos 3769 BC – 2864 BC
- Cainan 3679 BC – 2769 BC
- Mahalaleel 3609 BC – 2714 BC
- Jared 3544 BC – 2582 BC
- Enoch 3382 BC – 3017 BC
- Methuselah 3317 BC – 2348 BC
- Lamech 3130 BC – 2353 BC
- Noah 2948 BC – 1998 BC
- Shem 2446 BC – 1846 BC
Patriarchs 33
- Arphaxad 2346 BC – 1908 BC
- Salah 2311 BC – 1878 BC
- Eber 2281 BC – 1817 BC
- Peleg 2247 BC – 2008 BC
- Reu 2217 BC – 1978 BC
- Serug 2185 BC – 1955 BC
- Nahor 2155 BC – 2007 BC
- Terah 2126 BC – 1921 BC
- Abraham 1997 BC – 1821 BC
- Hagar 1910 BC – ?
- Ishmael 1909 BC – 1773 BC
- Isaac 1896 BC – 1716 BC
- Rebekah 1875 BC – ?
- Israel 1836 BC – 1689 BC
- Esau 1835 BC – ?
- Simeon 1757 BC – ?
- Levi 1756 BC – ?
- Reuben 1756 BC – ?
- Dan 1755 BC – ?
- Judah 1755 BC – ?
- Rachel 1755 BC – 1739 BC
- Naphtali 1754 BC – ?
- Gad 1753 BC – ?
- Asher 1752 BC – ?
- Issachar 1752 BC – ?
- Zebulun 1751 BC – ?
- Dinah 1750 BC – ?
- Joseph 1745 BC – 1635 BC
- Benjamin 1739 BC – ?
- Pharez 1721 BC – ?
- Job 1720 BC – 1580 BC
- Manasseh 1709 BC – ?
- Ephraim 1708 BC – ?
Egypt & Exodus 7
Judges 3
Kingdom 17
- David 1085 BC – 1015 BC
- Saul 1054 BC – 1004 BC
- Solomon 1035 BC – 975 BC
- Rehoboam 966 BC – 910 BC
- Ahaziah 844 BC – 822 BC
- Jehoram 844 BC – 802 BC
- Joash 844 BC – 800 BC
- Amaziah 825 BC – 770 BC
- Uzziah 808 BC – 742 BC
- Ahaz 763 BC – 716 BC
- Hezekiah 741 BC – 689 BC
- Manasseh 677 BC – 642 BC
- Amon 662 BC – 640 BC
- Josiah 648 BC – 609 BC
- Jehoiakim 634 BC – 598 BC
- Zedekiah 628 BC – ?
- Jehoiachin 616 BC – ?
