Topic proposal: Interactive Timeline?

I was thinking of using some kind of software to make an interactive timeline of the modern poetry/art movements. I would track not only where each author, for the poems I examine, wrote the work, but what was going on in the world at the time of writing. I am very interested in the history of the early 20th century as well as the movements and activities of the poets we are reading as they were writing/publishing works. The timeline would also include different aspects of important artistic, cultural, historical, political, etc. events. I am not sure how to go about setting this up but I am sure when I look there will be software that I can use for this project. I would like to make the timeline very detailed and very interactive, something enjoyable as well as informative. I will include video, photographs, interviews, and many many more sources to piece together an interesting Digital humanities project.