Highcharts Demo
author(s): Torstein Hønsi
by ibroom
HTML
<script src="https://code.highcharts.com/highcharts.js"></script>
<script src="https://code.highcharts.com/modules/timeline.js"></script>
<div id="container"></div>
CSS
#container {
min-width: 400px;
max-width: 100%;
margin: 0 auto;
height: 400px;
}
JavaScript
var data = [{
x: Date.UTC(1951, 5, 22),
name: 'First dogs in space',
label: 'First dogs in space',
description: "Dezik and Tsygan were the first dogs to make a sub-orbital flight on 22 July 1951. Both dogs were recovered unharmed after travelling to a maximum altitude of 110 km."
}, {
x: Date.UTC(1957, 9, 4),
name: 'First artificial satellite',
label: 'First artificial satellite',
description: "Sputnik 1 was the first artificial Earth satellite. The Soviet Union launched it into an elliptical low Earth orbit on 4 October 1957, orbiting for three weeks before its batteries died, then silently for two more months before falling back into the atmosphere."
}, {
x: Date.UTC(1959, 0, 4),
name: 'First artificial satellite to reach the Moon',
label: 'First artificial satellite to reach the Moon',
description: "Luna 1 was the first artificial satellite to reach the Moon vicinity and first artificial satellite in heliocentric orbit."
}, {
x: Date.UTC(1961, 3, 12),
name: 'First human spaceflight',
label: 'First human spaceflight',
description: "Yuri Gagarin was a Soviet pilot and cosmonaut. He became the first human to journey into outer space when his Vostok spacecraft completed one orbit of the Earth on 12 April 1961."
}, {
x: Date.UTC(1966, 1, 3),
name: 'First soft landing on the Moon',
label: 'First soft landing on the Moon',
description: "Yuri Gagarin was a Soviet pilot and cosmonaut. He became the first human to journey into outer space when his Vostok spacecraft completed one orbit of the Earth on 12 April 1961."
}, {
x: Date.UTC(1969, 6, 20),
name: 'First human on the Moon',
label: 'First human on the Moon',
description: "Apollo 11 was the spaceflight that landed the first two people on the Moon. Commander Neil Armstrong and lunar module pilot Buzz Aldrin, both American, landed the Apollo Lunar Module Eagle on July 20, 1969, at 20:17 UTC."
}, {
x: Date.UTC(1971, 3, 19),
name: 'First space station',
label: 'First...