Create a timeline in numbers

I wonder if anyone knows of a template for creating a time-line in Numbers? I am at present evaluating a timeline app, (Aeon Timeline) but it is not perfect for what I want to do and if someone had produced a Numbers timeline it would at least give me a start! Cheers.

I was interested in this and the best I could find was this discussion.
This one also looked interesting too, but the graphic isn't there any more.
And this one perhaps gives some ideas usng the drawing approach.
I agree with Wayne that there are probably better tools, depending on what you want to do.
I have Aeon and it does well for me. If you want fancy presentaton also check out BeeDocs. For very detailed and flexible analysis and presentation, at a price in $ and time, it's tough to beat the timeline view in Tinderbox.
SG

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