Today, The Atlantic is launching something we call the Life Timeline. Enter your birthday, and the Life Timeline will show you a brief tour of the history that’s happened all around you.

A timeline of the civil rights leader's life that touched many. John Lewis passed on Friday at age 80. Read more on Boston.com.

In more than a dozen times in her life, Harriet Tubman sacrificed her freedom to travel back to the place where she was a slave. And by doing so, she changed the course of American history.

Mozart died just shy of his 36th birthday in 1791. But in his short life, he wrote a remarkable amount of music that changed the course of music history.