Timeline of the Cold War

Timeline of events in the Cold War - timeline of the history of the Cold War. Article “Timeline of the Cold War” in English Wikipedia has 58.1 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 95 references and 57 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 3.06 points.

In this language version of Wikipedia the article has the best quality. Also, this article is the most popular in that (English) language version.

In June 2025 the article “Timeline of the Cold War” was edited by 3 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 4 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Timeline of the Cold War”, its content was written by 559 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 816 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 1074 times in English Wikipedia and cited 2840 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #1852 in May 2008
• Global: #11608 in May 2008

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #16927 in May 2008
• Global: #31959 in May 2008

There are 12 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	English (en) Timeline of the Cold War		58.0937
2	Italian (it) Cronologia della guerra fredda		55.1498
3	French (fr) Chronologie de la guerre froide		45.7412
4	Korean (ko) 냉전 연표		40.1973
5	Vietnamese (vi) Mốc sự kiện trong Chiến tranh Lạnh		34.5641
6	Arabic (ar) التسلسل الزمني لأحداث الحرب الباردة		31.0917
7	Romanian (ro) Cronologia Războiului Rece		29.1245
8	Swedish (sv) Tidslinje över kalla kriget		27.6245
9	Serbian (sr) Хронологија Хладног рата		25.3903
10	Portuguese (pt) Cronologia da Guerra Fria		16.6151

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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 the Cold War" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Timeline of the Cold War		2 853 906
2	French (fr) Chronologie de la guerre froide		884 706
3	Arabic (ar) التسلسل الزمني لأحداث الحرب الباردة		144 779
4	Italian (it) Cronologia della guerra fredda		88 173
5	Romanian (ro) Cronologia Războiului Rece		87 620
6	Portuguese (pt) Cronologia da Guerra Fria		79 187
7	Swedish (sv) Tidslinje över kalla kriget		78 248
8	Vietnamese (vi) Mốc sự kiện trong Chiến tranh Lạnh		45 641
9	Persian (fa) سال‌شمار جنگ سرد		29 702
10	Russian (ru) Хронология Холодной войны		14 951

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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 the Cold War" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Timeline of the Cold War		6 688
2	French (fr) Chronologie de la guerre froide		1 904
3	Italian (it) Cronologia della guerra fredda		473
4	Romanian (ro) Cronologia Războiului Rece		375
5	Russian (ru) Хронология Холодной войны		342
6	Arabic (ar) التسلسل الزمني لأحداث الحرب الباردة		285
7	Portuguese (pt) Cronologia da Guerra Fria		126
8	Vietnamese (vi) Mốc sự kiện trong Chiến tranh Lạnh		86
9	Swedish (sv) Tidslinje över kalla kriget		57
10	Persian (fa) سال‌شمار جنگ سرد		46

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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 the Cold War" 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 the Cold War		559
2	French (fr) Chronologie de la guerre froide		106
3	Arabic (ar) التسلسل الزمني لأحداث الحرب الباردة		27
4	Italian (it) Cronologia della guerra fredda		23
5	Swedish (sv) Tidslinje över kalla kriget		23
6	Vietnamese (vi) Mốc sự kiện trong Chiến tranh Lạnh		20
7	Portuguese (pt) Cronologia da Guerra Fria		16
8	Persian (fa) سال‌شمار جنگ سرد		12
9	Serbian (sr) Хронологија Хладног рата		12
10	Romanian (ro) Cronologia Războiului Rece		8

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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 the Cold War" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Timeline of the Cold War		3
2	Italian (it) Cronologia della guerra fredda		1
3	Arabic (ar) التسلسل الزمني لأحداث الحرب الباردة		0
4	Persian (fa) سال‌شمار جنگ سرد		0
5	French (fr) Chronologie de la guerre froide		0
6	Korean (ko) 냉전 연표		0
7	Portuguese (pt) Cronologia da Guerra Fria		0
8	Romanian (ro) Cronologia Războiului Rece		0
9	Russian (ru) Хронология Холодной войны		0
10	Serbian (sr) Хронологија Хладног рата		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 the Cold War" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Timeline of the Cold War		1 074
2	French (fr) Chronologie de la guerre froide		460
3	Arabic (ar) التسلسل الزمني لأحداث الحرب الباردة		264
4	Portuguese (pt) Cronologia da Guerra Fria		260
5	Korean (ko) 냉전 연표		202
6	Russian (ru) Хронология Холодной войны		151
7	Serbian (sr) Хронологија Хладног рата		142
8	Vietnamese (vi) Mốc sự kiện trong Chiến tranh Lạnh		118
9	Swedish (sv) Tidslinje över kalla kriget		96
10	Romanian (ro) Cronologia Războiului Rece		65

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic التسلسل الزمني لأحداث الحرب الباردة
en	English Timeline of the Cold War
fa	Persian سال‌شمار جنگ سرد
fr	French Chronologie de la guerre froide
it	Italian Cronologia della guerra fredda
ko	Korean 냉전 연표
pt	Portuguese Cronologia da Guerra Fria
ro	Romanian Cronologia Războiului Rece
ru	Russian Хронология Холодной войны
sr	Serbian Хронологија Хладног рата
sv	Swedish Tidslinje över kalla kriget
vi	Vietnamese Mốc sự kiện trong Chiến tranh Lạnh

Best Rank

English: #16927 05.2008

Global: #31959 05.2008

Best Rank

English: #1852 05.2008

Global: #11608 05.2008

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