You can use the following tips to create a timeline to recall events:

Use memorable events. Everyone remembers exactly what they were doing on September 11, 2001.

Remember one of your favorite songs. What year did it come out? What were you doing at the time?

You can use the following tips to create a timeline to recall a list of items:

Do things in numerical order. You're brain is designed like a filing cabinet. A huge list of items can be memorized easily and effortlessly if they "chain linked" together.

Close your eyes and create colorful and comical pictures in your mind of what you are trying to memorize.