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Template:en-timeline

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This is a timeline template for words with English quotations. Parameters:

  • 1400s – years of 15th-century quotations
  • 1500s – years of 16th-century quotations
  • 1600s – (etc.)
  • 1700s
  • 1800s
  • 1900s
  • 2000s
  • enm – A link backwards to the entry for the Middle English progenitor of this word (if any), where (in theory) older cites would be found.
{{en-timeline
| 1400s =
| 1500s =
| 1600s =
| 1700s =
| 1800s =
| 1900s =
| 2000s =
| enm =
}}

If more than one date exists for a century, separate them with spaces, and they should bottom-align.

All parameters are optional. If none are given, the timeline will be blank, as it should be above. This timeline is probably not suitable for other languages than English, which may want longer or shorter timelines, or links back to different prior languages (or forward to later ones?).

Please feel free to gussy up this template any way that seems necessary, I'm not very good at pretty format.

Adapted from la:Formula:Chronologia.

TemplateData

This is the TemplateData documentation for this template used by VisualEditor and other tools.

TemplateData for en-timeline

Creates a timeline for English citation pages.

Template parameters[Edit template data]

This template prefers block formatting of parameters.

ParameterDescriptionTypeStatus
15th c.1400s

Years of citations from the 15th century (1400-1499)

Stringoptional
16th c.1500s

Years of citations from the 16th century (1500-1599)

Example
1525 1597 1599
Stringoptional
17th c.1600s

Years of citations from the 17th century (1600-1699)

Example
1689 1694
Stringoptional
18th c.1700s

Years of citations from the 18th century (1700-1799)

Example
1749 1789
Stringoptional
19th c.1800s

Years of citations from the 19th century (1800-1899)

Example
1855 1889
Stringoptional
20th c.1900s

Years of citations from the 20th century (1900-1999)

Example
1917 1919 1964
Stringoptional
21st c.2000s

Years of citations from the 21st century (2000-2099)

Example
2008
Stringoptional
Middle English linkenm

A link backwards to the entry for the Middle English progenitor of this word (if any), where (in theory) older cites would be found.

Page nameoptional