History time line

In class we talked about visualizing history from the begining to now. I think it is always good to have a main time line to give you an idea about the chronology of everything. Sometimes things just fit when you understand what came when. But that isn't all that is important because you also née to people and places and what they did as well as when. So I think the answer to this would be a multilayered time line or a time line with other boxes around it. Something of the sort. Basically you have a central time line, around it are boxes of information seperated into regions with facts. Each fact has a line to its time on the central time line.

 

It would look a little prettier but that is the idea