jQuery slider as a timeline

Question

I have just finished incorporating a jQuery accordian with a jQuery Slider. I.e.

3 pictures are displayed. The user can either use PREV or NEXT buttons to view the next/prev 3 images. They can also navigate through all the images with the slider.

The next step is to make this slider look like a timeline. The left hand side needs to start at 1970 and finish at 2010. For each item (an item is a set of 3 images in this case) I need it to show a date on the timeline.

i.e:

I know I could create an image with the dates the right width apart but idealy this needs to be dynamic so more items can be put in and the timeline self updates.

Any ideas? Thanks

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Fixed