Historical Babes

Timeline beta

Lifespans, works, moves, and context events arranged across the archive.

Archive beta: biographies are source-linked; map, timeline, context, date, and coordinate metadata may be approximate or under review.

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69 BCE 979 2026
Lives Works Places Impact World Threads
  1. 69 BCE–30 BCE Reviewed
  2. 51 BCE-30 BCE Reviewed
  3. 51 BCE-30 BCE Reviewed
  4. 51 BCE Approximate
  5. 48 BCE Approximate
  6. 41 BCE Approximate
  7. 30 BCE Reviewed
  8. c. 1412–1431 Reviewed
  9. 1429 Reviewed
  10. 1429 Reviewed
  11. 1429 Approximate
  12. 1429 Reviewed
  13. 1431 Approximate
  14. 1775-1835 Needs source
  15. 1803-1879 Needs source
  16. 1815–1852 Reviewed
  17. 1831 Needs source
  18. 1831 Approximate
  19. 1834-1923 Needs source
  20. 1838-1914 Reviewed
  21. 1843 Reviewed
  22. 1843 Reviewed
  23. 1843 Reviewed
  24. 1843 Approximate
  25. 1843 Reviewed
  26. 1843 Reviewed
  27. 1859-1924 Reviewed
  28. 1867–1934 Reviewed
  29. 1867 Approximate
  30. 1868-1921 Reviewed
  31. 1876-1917 Reviewed
  32. 1876-1938 Reviewed
  33. 1878-1951 Needs source
  34. 1880 Reviewed
  35. 1880 Approximate
  36. 1881-1965 Needs source
  37. 1891 Approximate
  38. 1892-1926 Needs source
  39. 1892-1950 Reviewed
  40. 1893-1945 Reviewed
  41. 1893 Reviewed
  42. 1896-1971 Reviewed
  43. 1897-1995 Needs source
  44. 1898-1974 Reviewed
  45. 1898 Reviewed
  46. 1898 Reviewed
  47. 1898 Reviewed
  48. 1898 Approximate
  49. 1898-1911 Reviewed
  50. 1899-1957 Needs source
  51. 1900-1995 Reviewed
  52. 1902-1981 Reviewed
  53. 1903 Reviewed
  54. 1903 Reviewed
  55. 1906-1944 Needs source
  56. 1909-1992 Reviewed
  57. 1911 Reviewed
  58. 1911 Reviewed
  59. 1912-2004 Reviewed
  60. 1913–2005 Reviewed
  61. 1914-1979 Reviewed
  62. 1917 Needs source
  63. 1917 Approximate
  64. 1920 Reviewed
  65. 1921-1943 Reviewed
  66. 1921 Approximate
  67. 1921 Needs source
  68. 1922-1926 Needs source
  69. 1922 Approximate
  70. 1923-2004 Reviewed
  71. 1924 Reviewed
  72. 1929-1981 Reviewed
  73. 1930 Approximate
  74. 1932-2016 Reviewed
  75. 1941 Reviewed
  76. 1942 Reviewed
  77. 1943 Reviewed
  78. 1943 Reviewed
  79. 1943 Reviewed
  80. 1944 Reviewed
  81. 1945-2005 Needs source
  82. 1945-1975 Needs source
  83. 1945 Reviewed
  84. 1947 Reviewed
  85. 1948-2013 Needs source
  86. 1955-1956 Reviewed
  87. 1955 Reviewed
  88. 1955 Approximate
  89. 1955 Reviewed
  90. 1959-1994 Reviewed
  91. 1969 Needs source
  92. 1969 Approximate
Curated threads

Historical threads ready for timeline browsing

2 sourced prompts
  1. The note that imagined software Ada Lovelace · 1843

    Start with Lovelace translating Menabrea's paper, then follow how her notes turned a proposed calculating machine into an idea about symbolic computing.

    Strong enough for a short curated path through the Analytical Engine notes; not a full guided story mode.
    Reviewed Open thread Source
  2. From hidden rays to two Nobels Marie Curie · 1898-1911

    Trace Curie's radioactivity research from the 1898 discoveries of polonium and radium through the Nobel recognition that followed.

    Curated as a sourced research arc for timeline browsing.
    Reviewed Open thread Source