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Trying out a few different systems for timelines.

I don't consider a bulleted list a timeline. It's a list, not a line! I thought a fancy wikitable might do the job, but I just discovered EasyTimeline.

See Category:Graphical_timelines for some interesting, welldone timelines.


Trial table

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Pros:

  • like a timeline (prettier!)
  • scales pretty well up or down
  • easy to edit

Cons:

  • Hard to start up, maybe
  • Takes up more space than the bulleted list it replaced


Timeline: Australian history in the 1990s
Events Year Events
  • Hawke is replaced by Paul Keating
  • Prominent heart surgeon Victor Chang is gunned down
1991
  • Seven people die in the Strathfield massacre
  • The Coode Island chemical storage facility in Melbourne explodes, leaving a toxic cloud hanging over the city for days
  • The Sydney Harbour Tunnel opens
1992
  • New South Wales Premier Nick Greiner resigns after a corruption inquiry finds against him
  • The High Court delivers the Mabo Decision, which rules that indigenous native title does exist. This effectively extinguishes the concept of terra nullius.
1993
  • Keating defeats John Hewson in an election that had been widely described as being "unwinnable" for him; the Australian Greens stand candidates for the first time
1994
  • The Northern Territory legalises voluntary euthanasia, but it is overruled by the federal government when Liberal MP Kevin Andrews proposes the Andrews Bill
1995
  • The High Court hands down the Wik Decision, which holds that indigenous native title can survive the granting of pastoral leases.
  • All Australian states and territories agree to introduce uniform gun laws following the deaths of 35 people in the Port Arthur Massacre
1996
  • Liberal John Howard becomes Prime Minister, defeating Paul Keating after a record 13 years of Labor government
  • Expelled Liberal MP Pauline Hanson forms the One Nation Party
1997
  • Eighteen people die when the Bimbadene and Carinya Lodges collapse at Thredbo Alpine Village at 11.30pm on 30 July
  • A major strike results when Patrick Stevedores attempt to introduce non-union labour to reduce the influence of the Maritime Union of Australia
1998
  • The Australian Stock Exchange is demutualised and floated as a public company, becoming the world’s first stock exchange to be listed on an exchange.
  • Both houses of the federal parliament pass a motion signifying both recognition of and regret at past treatment of indigenous Australians.
  • Australian soldiers are deployed to East Timor as part of the INTERFET peacekeeping force
1999
  • A referendum on changing to a republic is unsuccessful

EasyTimeline

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