A repo of datasets of historical events and lives in a simple CSV format, with links to Wikipedia.
This data is largely based on content from Wikipedia, and so carries the following license terms:
- CC BY-SA 4.0: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License
- GNU Free Documentation License
It is intended for use with historicaldate and hdtimelines, Python packages for handling events and lives with possibly uncertain dates and displaying timelines of them. For example dates may be specified as a year, or with a 'circa' indication or as a range of possible dates.
See https://timeflows.uk/front-page/timelines-explorer/ for timelines produced from this data
- It's an English language database
- Files are in the format used by hdtimelines
- Dates are in historicaldate format
- Almost all rows contain a link in the url column to a relevant entry in English Wikipedia