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Making a timeline
Students practice creating and organizing timelines by identifying the chronological order of events, placing years correctly, and distinguishing between BC and AD, through matching exercises and ordering questions suitable for 4th-grade understanding.
By Edform · History · Grade 4 · Published Oct 15, 2026 · New
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Questions
- Which event happened first on a timeline?
- Put these years in order from earliest to latest.
- Which of these years are in the 20th century? Select all that apply.
- Match each event to the correct century.
- Fill in the blanks with the correct terms.
- Choose the correct answer for each blank.
- What is a timeline?
- Sort these years into the correct centuries.
- Mark each statement as true or false.
- How many years are there between 100 BC and AD 100?
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