Look at this world history timeline (by Scientific Timeline Productions):

13.7 billion years of universal history Over 60.000 years of art, technology and religion Over 6000 years of literature, art, world religion, philosophy, science, music and political facts A horizontal and vertical linkage of the artistic, intellectual, and scientific movements in world history. Thousands of important people and their publications situated with data. A full colour edition, illustrated with over 150 images and maps The content is based upon comparison of various reliable courses and supervised by 18 European academics

Why do I blog this? I was looking for some nice examples of timelines/sparkline and visualization of events that happened over time and I found this huge project. I found it smart and informative, would be good to have this at home.