I'm not sure on how to make a timeline of events throughout the course of an event in one day. Plus, I'd like to do it in a proper format.

You can either make your timeline vertically or horizontally.

I'd mark off 24 equal spaces -- for each hour of the day.

Here's a good example of a timeline.

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