I'm working on a little personal project of mine. I'm creating a timeline of historical events from the first century to around the year 2000. I am not a history major, but I am a full time student, so I imagine this will take many months. I imagine such a thing has been done before but I believe I would learn more doing the research myself. I'll start by put down the information in a word document, dividing it up by region(europe, asia, middle east, etc,). Then I will find some software to combine the entire thing into one long timeline.
The order of importance for regions I need references from is like this:
Europe: Very well documented of course, I've got several books on Roman history, plus I recently purchased some of the penguin european history books, so I've got the fall of rome to the late middle ages covered, I know plenty about the "art and culture" of the renessiance, but I could use something covering wars and diplomacy from about 1500-1750. (Also any resources on western europe specifically would be great, I know considerably less about the baltic states and westward). Some stuff on the gauls and vandals would be great too.

Africa: I know generally about European colonization, although specially I don't know much about the french in Africa and then the europeans leaving Africa. I need resources on Africa pre european colonization

Middle eastern: I know generally the course of history of turkey specifically(Thanks kraut), but nothing south of that, anything also involving the rise of islam

Russia: This stuff is weird, but anything involving the rise of the russian empire and alot of the stuff that happened more westward of Moscow.

Asia: asian history is weird and complex and I will be getting to this last, anything that makes this long and complicated history easier to understand would be great. I generally know about the three kingdoms and the sengoku judai

The Americas: This will probably not make the cut for my timeline, seeing as most of the events that occured in the Americas pre-colonization were irrelevant to the rest of world history. However, it is a very interesting and under-represented part of history, so if anyone has some interesting reads I'd love to check it out.