This biographical history timeline shows how the lives of several famous 19th century composers overlap in time. It was drawn with the RFFlow software.

First download the free trial version of RFFlow. It will allow you to open any chart or timeline and make modifications.

Once RFFlow is installed, you can open the above timeline in RFFlow by clicking on timeline_composers.flo. From there you can zoom in, edit, and print this sample timeline. It is often easier to modify an existing timeline than to draw it from scratch.

To draw this timeline without downloading it, run RFFlow and click on the More Shapes button. Scroll to the Timelines stencil and click it. Then click the Add Stencil button.

To learn how to automatically generate a timeline in RFFlow, see:
How to Draw a Timeline