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chronology is using a deprecated form of right keyword, and positioning library redefines it. This explains why chronology's output changes when positioning package is included.

MWE: http://tex.stackexchange.com/q/125853

I tried the package successfully, but for another application I would need a finer output.
My event series consists of 78 entries like

\event{\decimaldate{04}{05}{1771}}{04.,05.~1771\quad\rule{3ex}{3pt}~sometext}
\event{\decimaldate{10}{05}{1771}}{10.,05.~1771\quad\rule{2ex}{3pt}~someothertext}

I tried that with

\begin{chronology}[1]{1771}{1772}{25cm} % optional argument <1 not working

which obviously does not result in a readable timeline.
Being illiterate in TikZ/PGF I would appreciate to have a solution for that in a future version of chronology.sty

http://tex.stackexchange.com/q/109382

The check for \ifx #1e...\else...\fi does not seem to work properly.

For \event{2002}{ABC} the label is set too much to the right.

http://tex.stackexchange.com/q/125853

The ; is an active character in French, but used in TikZ.
You have to to handle that active chars in your code.

http://tex.stackexchange.com/q/171782

The only documentation we have now is the example.tex file. But the different options and parameters are not documented. Can you please add some documentation on how to build a timeline, please?

Thanks!

while using the package with hyperref, if your events contain citations or any other objects which generate hyperref links, these are rendered horizontally, together with the main line, and aren't rotated to follow the text.

since my limited knowledge of latex doesn't allows for a solution i've came up with a workaround by selectively disabling hyperref between the chronology environment

\begin{NoHyper}
  \begin{chronology}[4]{1996}{2018}{\textwidth}
    \event{1997}{testA}
    \event{2007}{testB}
    \event{2017}{testC}
  \end{chronology}
\end{NoHyper}

here's how it shows up in pdf

nice package, btw, thanks!