TimelineJS is an open-source tool that enables anyone to build visually rich, interactive timelines. Beginners can create a timeline using nothing more than a Google spreadsheet. Experts can use their JSON skills to create custom installations, while keeping TimelineJS's core functionality.

TimelineJS works on any site or blog. Make your own in four easy steps: create your spreadsheet, publish to the web, generate your timeline, and share your timeline. Copy this embed code and paste it on your site where you want your timeline to appear (just like a YouTube video).

TimelineJS can pull in media from a variety of sources, including Twitter, Flickr, YouTube, Vimeo, Vine, Dailymotion, Google Maps, Wikipedia, SoundCloud, Document Cloud and more. Every time a timeline is viewed, the data is loaded from Google Sheets. This means that if you need to change your timeline, you don't need to come back and do anything here, or even republish it. Just edit Google Sheets.