Timeline of astronomy

Timeline of astronomy - list of important events in the history of astronomy. Article “Timeline of astronomy” in English Wikipedia has 48.9 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 38 references and 92 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 2.57 points.

This article has the best quality in Slovenian Wikipedia. However, this article is the most popular in English version.

In June 2025 the article “Timeline of astronomy” was edited by 1 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 1 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Timeline of astronomy”, its content was written by 224 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 428 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 191 times in English Wikipedia and cited 444 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #1296 in September 2020
• Global: #10278 in September 2020

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #47005 in March 2017
• Global: #89904 in March 2017

There are 7 language versions for this article in the WikiRank database (of the considered 55 Wikipedia language editions).

The quality and popularity assessment was based on Wikipédia dumps from July 1, 2025 (including revision history and pageviews for previous years).

The table below shows the language versions of the article with the highest quality.

#	Language	Quality grade	Quality score
1	Slovenian (sl) Časovni pregled astronomije		55.1885
2	English (en) Timeline of astronomy		48.8527
3	German (de) Zeittafel Astronomie		34.726
4	Chinese (zh) 天文学大事年表		30.8137
5	French (fr) Chronologie de l'astronomie		30.2933
6	Slovak (sk) Chronologický prehľad dejín astronómie		9.2478
7	Turkish (tr) Astronomi kronolojisi		0.2638

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The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

The most popular language versions of the article "Timeline of astronomy" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Timeline of astronomy		505 764
2	French (fr) Chronologie de l'astronomie		111 023
3	German (de) Zeittafel Astronomie		43 841
4	Slovenian (sl) Časovni pregled astronomije		16 017
5	Chinese (zh) 天文学大事年表		14 491
6	Slovak (sk) Chronologický prehľad dejín astronómie		5 347
7	Turkish (tr) Astronomi kronolojisi		3 081

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

The most popular language versions of the article "Timeline of astronomy" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Timeline of astronomy		2 419
2	French (fr) Chronologie de l'astronomie		264
3	German (de) Zeittafel Astronomie		144
4	Chinese (zh) 天文学大事年表		91
5	Slovak (sk) Chronologický prehľad dejín astronómie		17
6	Slovenian (sl) Časovni pregled astronomije		16
7	Turkish (tr) Astronomi kronolojisi		12

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

Language versions of the article "Timeline of astronomy" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Timeline of astronomy		224
2	French (fr) Chronologie de l'astronomie		131
3	German (de) Zeittafel Astronomie		38
4	Chinese (zh) 天文学大事年表		13
5	Slovak (sk) Chronologický prehľad dejín astronómie		11
6	Turkish (tr) Astronomi kronolojisi		6
7	Slovenian (sl) Časovni pregled astronomije		5

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

Language versions of the article "Timeline of astronomy" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Timeline of astronomy		1
2	German (de) Zeittafel Astronomie		0
3	French (fr) Chronologie de l'astronomie		0
4	Slovak (sk) Chronologický prehľad dejín astronómie		0
5	Slovenian (sl) Časovni pregled astronomije		0
6	Turkish (tr) Astronomi kronolojisi		0
7	Chinese (zh) 天文学大事年表		0

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

Language versions of the article "Timeline of astronomy" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Timeline of astronomy		191
2	French (fr) Chronologie de l'astronomie		164
3	Chinese (zh) 天文学大事年表		49
4	Turkish (tr) Astronomi kronolojisi		26
5	Slovenian (sl) Časovni pregled astronomije		6
6	German (de) Zeittafel Astronomie		5
7	Slovak (sk) Chronologický prehľad dejín astronómie		3

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#	Language	Value
de	German Zeittafel Astronomie
en	English Timeline of astronomy
fr	French Chronologie de l'astronomie
sk	Slovak Chronologický prehľad dejín astronómie
sl	Slovenian Časovni pregled astronomije
tr	Turkish Astronomi kronolojisi
zh	Chinese 天文学大事年表

Best Rank

English: #47005 03.2017

Global: #89904 03.2017

Best Rank

English: #1296 09.2020

Global: #10278 09.2020

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