There are many reasons to keep a timeline. You might want to create a chronological map of how a project or company developed, track a family history, or follow your career progress or trajectory. But whatever the reason, here are 10 best jQuery plugins for creating powerful interactive timelines.

TimelineJS

Beautifully crafted timelines that are easy, and intuitive to use.

3D Slider Timeline

Awesome for company timeline, time line, history, company history, shipping history, parcel track display, timeline slider.

MelonHTML5

It comes with 4 different timeline element types (blog post, mini gallery, slider and embedded iframe), each element type has its own unique feature and plenty of customizalbe options, which should suit all your needs.

Ideabox

Timeline News Ticker.

jQuery Responsive Timeline

The jQuery Post Timeline let you display a list of post in a beautiful and really easy way It is done with a facebook style layout (vertical) and is totally responsive, so it fits in any of your designs !

jQuery Timelinr

This simple plugin helps you to give more life to the boring timelines. Supports horizontal and vertical layouts, and you can specify parameters for most attributes: speed, transparency, etc..

Timeglider

Timeglider JS is a zooming, panning data-driven timeline widget written in Javascript— great for history projects, project planning, and more.

Lateral On-Scroll Sliding with jQuery

The main idea is to laterally slide in elements depending on the scroll position of the document. Dividing the page into a left and right side, we want to move the elements from “outside” of the page to the center when they are in the viewport.

Morris.js

Making good-looking graphs shouldn’t be hard. Morris.js is a lightweight library that uses jQuery and Raphaël to make drawing time-series graphs easy.

Timeliner

A jQuery plugin that enables you to easily create slideshow presentations showing the progress in an animating timeline. The slides can contain any content and can be skipped and paused.

Timeline calendar

Timeline is simple JavaScript driven calendar, which is written on top of jQuery JavaScript framework. Timeline is a horizontal representation of days in month. It can be used to display unlimited number of events with their descriptions.

jQuery TimelineXML

TimelineXML is the perfect addition to your blog, magazine, news site, portfolio, you name it. The script takes time-stamped pieces of content and puts them on a timeline.