The document describes an entity linking approach to generate a personalized timeline of historic events for a user. It involves 4 main parts: (1) fetching candidate historic events from DBpedia, (2) generating a user profile based on information extracted from the user's Facebook profile, (3) matching the candidate events to the user's interests in their profile, and (4) scoring and ranking the events to produce the final personalized timeline. The approach uses entity linking techniques to associate mentions of entities in the user's profile with the corresponding entries in a knowledge base, in order to identify the user's interests.