Suggest an event

Each suggestion is read and checked against its sources before anything is published. Approved events are added in both languages.

Date

Write the year as a number, and choose BCE for years before the common era.

Before or after the common era

Only for events that span several years.

End year before or after the common era
Event

The most specific place the source names.

What happened, who acted, where, and why it mattered, in up to 120 words.

The event's address, if you are correcting an event already on the timeline.

Sources

Accepted: academic books and articles, reference works such as Britannica or the Encyclopaedia of Islam, official documents, archives, museum catalogues, and reports by recognized organizations. Not accepted: Wikipedia, blogs, social media and videos.

Source 1
More sources
Source 2
Source 3
Source 4
Source 5
About you

Used only to ask you follow-up questions about this suggestion.

This form stores what you write in it. Your IP address is stored only as a one-way hash, used to limit repeated submissions. Your name appears with an approved event only if you tick the box above. More about privacy