The Timeline

Visualize the sweep of history with the Accordance Timeline Expanded Edition. Much more than just dates on a timeline, the new expanded Timeline presents a colorful tapestry of the rise and fall of civilizations, the spread of world religions, and the wider context of biblical history. With more than 3,000 historical periods, people, and events charted across 13 major geographical regions, you can see what was happening in each part of the world at any given time. It is fully integrated with all Accordance Bible study features and modules Any Bible text, or other single tool that can be read in Accordance, including reference texts and articles; may also be referred to as content or resource.

You can:

• create your own timelines from earliest history through the modern era.
• select the geographic regions and the scheme of dates.
• add items such as people and events from a defined time period.
• create Custom Lists with specific items.
• define your own User Items.
• click to select a time and produce a report of the events in that time.
• Religious Leaders item category.
• Church history (Catholic, Orthodox, Celtic, Nestorian, Protestant).
• Jewish history (rabbis, writings, movements, and persecutions).
• Islamic history (caliphates, scholars, writings, and warfare).
• Major manuscripts and Bible translations.
• James Ussher’s chronology of the Antediluvian Period.
• Accordance history!
• search for an item name in a Bible Text or Tool.
• link from the Scripture references for an item.
• directly print any tab, or copy the tab contents to another program.

The Timeline includes:

• A Timeline data file
• Accordance Timeline settings with prepared timelines
• User Items with examples

The Timeline must be installed in order to use the features described in this section of the Help.