History · Grades 2–5
Timelines, order and duration · Revision card
Knowing which event came first does not by itself tell you the time gap.
Understand the idea
Separate order and duration
Knowing which event came first does not by itself tell you the time gap.
Read the scale
Timeline spacing represents time only when a scale is provided.
Use the stated convention
These exercises use positive numbered years unless specified.
Worked examples
Which word means an event happened earlier?
Before signals earlier sequence.
before
A fictional hall opened in 1842 and was extended in 1860. How many years passed?
1860 − 1842 = 18.
18
Explain without looking
- Why should a historian distinguish the date an event happened from the date a later account was written?
Further reading and review references
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