Calendar vs. Timeline — What's the Difference?

A calendar is a system of organizing days. This is done by giving names to periods of time, typically days, weeks, months and years.

A timeline is a display of a list of events in chronological order. It is typically a graphic design showing a long bar labelled with dates paralleling it, and usually contemporaneous events.

Any of various systems of reckoning time in which the beginning, length, and divisions of a year are defined, sometimes along with multiyear cycles.

A schedule of activities or events; a timetable.

A table showing the months, weeks, and days in at least one specific year.

A chronology.

A schedule of events.

A representation or exhibit of key events within a particular historical period, often consisting of illustrative visual material accompanied by written commentary, arranged chronologically.

An ordered list of matters to be considered:the bills on a legislative calendar.

A graphical representation of a chronological sequence of events (past or future); a chronology.

Chiefly British A catalog of a university.

A schedule of activities; a timetable.

To enter in a calendar; schedule.

(scifi) An individual universe or reality, especially a parallel/alternate one in which events differ from actual history, or differ from the established canon of a fictional world.

Any system by which time is divided into days, weeks, months, and years.

To analyse a sequence of events or activities.

A means to determine the date consisting of a document containing dates and other temporal information.

To display such a sequence graphically.

A list of planned events.

An orderly list or enumeration of persons, things, or events; a schedule.

(US) An appointment book (US), appointment diary (UK)

(legal) To set a date for a proceeding in court, usually done by a judge at a calendar call.

To enter or write in a calendar; to register.

An orderly arrangement of the division of time, adapted to the purposes of civil life, as years, months, weeks, and days; also, a register of the year with its divisions; an almanac.

A tabular statement of the dates of feasts, offices, saints' days, etc., esp. of those which are liable to change yearly according to the varying date of Easter.

An orderly list or enumeration of persons, things, or events; a schedule; as, a calendar of state papers; a calendar of bills presented in a legislative assembly; a calendar of causes arranged for trial in court; a calendar of a college or an academy.

To enter or write in a calendar; to register.

A system of timekeeping that defines the beginning and length and divisions of the year

A list or register of events (appointments or social events or court cases etc);

A tabular array of the days (usually for one year)

Enter into a calendar