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by Arnold Daniels

HTML

<div class="timeline">
   <div class="event" style="left: 10%">
     <div class="description">Now it starts</div>
     <div class="date">may 2014</div>
   </div>
   <div class="event" style="left: 60%">
     <div class="description">Something happened</div>
     <div class="date">dec 2016</div>
   </div>
   <div class="event" style="left: 80%">
     <div class="description">We did it!</div>
     <div class="date">jan 2018</div>
   </div>
</div>

CSS

.timeline {
  position: relative;
  height: 160px;
  overflow: hidden;
}
.timeline:after {
  display: block;
  content: " ";
  border: 4px solid black;
  position: absolute;
  top: calc(50% + 2px);
  width: 100%;
}

.timeline .event {
  position: absolute;
  text-align: center;
  width: 250px;
  top: calc(50% - 30px);
  margin-left: -125px;
  z-index: 1;
}

.timeline .event:after {
  content: " ";
  position: absolute;
  border-radius: 50%;
  border: 1px solid black;
  background-color: #fff;
  width: 20px;
  height: 20px;
  top: calc(50% - 10px);
  left: calc(50% - 10px);
  z-index: 2;
}

.timeline .event .date {
  margin-top: 35px;
}