Looking for a way to make a proportional timeline out of an Excel or CSV file

Simple concept, say I have two columns. The first contains a time or date, and the next a word or two describing an event.

    
1970, born
1987, graduated highschool
1991, graduated college

  

Does there exist a program, or a feature within a program like Excel, that takes this data and spits out a timeline where the dates are spaced proportionally and not just evenly spaced? Something like this:

    
                                          1991
                                          Graduated college
+----------------------------------+------+
1970                               1987
born                               graduated high school

  

The best solution I've found, at least in Excel, is to treat the dates like a histogram or scatter plot so the dots show up in the right place, then add labels after.