Credits

Where the information on this site comes from.

Data

• Wikidata: birth dates, death dates, photos and descriptions of people. The list of events and who was at each is hand-picked, with dates checked against standard references. Released under CC0 (public domain).
• Wikipedia: summaries and links. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Each summary links to its article.

Photos

Photos of people and pictures of events come from Wikimedia Commons, where every image is freely licensed. Licenses and photographers vary by image; select a photo to see its credit and license on Commons.

Ages

Ages are calculated on this site from a birth date and the date a term started or ended. The sources are edited by volunteers and can be wrong or out of date.

Independence

This site is not affiliated with or endorsed by any government, institution, person, Wikipedia or the Wikimedia Foundation. It shows ages and dates only, and takes no position on any person.

Fonts

Big Shoulders Display and Instrument Sans, both under the SIL Open Font License, served from this site. The coffee cup is from Google's Noto Emoji, under the Apache License 2.0.