Create Your Own Time Line
Create your own time line is a wonderful gift idea for each other or as an anniversary gift for your parents. Use key events from your relationship: when you met, your first kiss, when you fell in love, when you became engaged and of course, your wedding date. If you've been married longer, add other major events: when you bought your first home, children, special vacations and other romantic highlights of your marriage.
Mix it up with history events—but make it fun. It doesn't have to be all political history events. Here are free information resources to create many types of time lines and free time line templates so you can print one out and frame it.
Time Line Fact Resources
- History time line resources for world, U.S., sports, entertainment and science events. A day in history time line with a free tool that lists many types of events in the year you were married, or events on your anniversary date. Save the info and import it into a Word document. Place a recent photo in the document and you just created a very special gift for your first wedding anniversary.
- Another free day in history tool for more events.
- Film time lines by the decades
- Music Time Lines:
- Burn your time line to a CD and add your favorite tunes. Get a 7-day free trial with unlimited access to 3 million+ songs in CD quality sound.
- Classical Music Time Line, from Antiquity to 1900 or try this classical time line which includes a few 20th century composers. Be creative: match a significant year in your life to "100 years ago" or "500 years ago."
- Billboards's Top Hits from the late 1940s through 2005. Covers rock/pop, hip hop and country music. You'll find both singles and album charts. They also have a This Day In Music Timeline which features the current day and the past two weeks (look lower right for the "Recent Days In Music"). It doesn't have to be the exact day, use the same year.
- Food History Time Line begins from early grains through Deep Fried Coca Cola.
- Modern Art Time Line goes from the 1860s through now
Free Time Line Templates
Here are several free time line template resources. Note, Windows only users.
- Free, trial SmartDraw software. They provide dozens of You don't need any drawing skills and can easily add graphics
- For Microsoft Office users, a time line template that works with Word 97 and up.
