diff --git a/package-lock.json b/package-lock.json
index 7df3dfd..505709c 100644
--- a/package-lock.json
+++ b/package-lock.json
@@ -984,6 +984,10 @@
       "integrity": "sha1-muuabF6IY4qtFx4Wf1kAq+JINdA=",
       "dev": true
     },
+    "binary-search-bounds": {
+      "version": "github:bvaughn/binary-search-bounds#971e0ecbabcb1e9e657a68bf7cd937598117b688",
+      "from": "github:bvaughn/binary-search-bounds#971e0ecbabcb1e9e657a68bf7cd937598117b688"
+    },
     "blob": {
       "version": "0.0.4",
       "resolved": "https://registry.npmjs.org/blob/-/blob-0.0.4.tgz",
diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
index 287feef..33c1ee5 100644
--- a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 {
   "dependencies": {
+    "binary-search-bounds": "github:bvaughn/binary-search-bounds#971e0ecbabcb1e9e657a68bf7cd937598117b688",
     "d3-array": "^1.2.1",
     "d3-axis": "^1.0.8",
     "d3-scale": "^2.0.0",
diff --git a/src/grok-ui/components/sheets/trice_timeline.jsx b/src/grok-ui/components/sheets/trice_timeline.jsx
index 5397ad0..bb03ab7 100644
--- a/src/grok-ui/components/sheets/trice_timeline.jsx
+++ b/src/grok-ui/components/sheets/trice_timeline.jsx
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 import React from 'react';
 
-import { Accordion, Button, Icon } from 'semantic-ui-react';
+import { Menu } from 'semantic-ui-react';
 
 import TriceTimelineVis from '../trice_timeline/timeline_vis.jsx';
 
@@ -42,6 +42,10 @@ export default class TriceTimelineSheet extends React.PureComponent {
 
     this.onSeekRequest = this.onSeekRequest.bind(this);
     this.onRangeChanged = this.onRangeChanged.bind(this);
+    this.onZoomIn = this.onZoomIn.bind(this);
+    this.onZoomOut = this.onZoomOut.bind(this);
+    this.onMovePrev = this.onMovePrev.bind(this);
+    this.onMoveNext = this.onMoveNext.bind(this);
   }
 
   componentWillMount() {
@@ -145,10 +149,61 @@ export default class TriceTimelineSheet extends React.PureComponent {
     thing.sendSlotMessage('triceLog:filters:seeked', { startBin, endBin });
   }
 
+  /** Return the underlying vis.js timeline widget to invoke its methods */
+  get visJsWidget() {
+    const visJsx = this.visRef.current;
+    return visJsx.visJsWidget;
+  }
+
+  onZoomIn() {
+    this.visJsWidget.zoomIn(0.5);
+  }
+
+  onZoomOut() {
+    this.visJsWidget.zoomOut(0.5);
+  }
+
+  /**
+   * Move the window so that the first event preceding the visible window is
+   * brought to the center of the timline.
+   */
+  onMovePrev() {
+    const triceLog = this.props.triceLog;
+    const startTime = this.visJsWidget.getWindow().start.valueOf();
+    const event = triceLog.findfirstEventBeforeItemTime(startTime);
+    if (event) {
+      this.visJsWidget.moveTo(event.start);
+    }
+  }
+
+  onMoveNext() {
+    const triceLog = this.props.triceLog;
+    const endTime = this.visJsWidget.getWindow().end.valueOf();
+    const event = triceLog.findfirstEventAfterItemTime(endTime);
+    if (event) {
+      this.visJsWidget.moveTo(event.start);
+    }
+  }
+
   render() {
     return (
       <div>
-        <Button onClick={ this.onFiltersClicked }>Filters</Button>
+        <Menu size='small'>
+          <Menu.Menu>
+            <Menu.Item icon='zoom in' onClick={ this.onZoomIn } />
+            <Menu.Item icon='zoom out' onClick={ this.onZoomOut } />
+          </Menu.Menu>
+          <Menu.Menu>
+            <Menu.Item icon='backward' onClick={ this.onMovePrev } />
+            <Menu.Item icon='forward' onClick={ this.onMoveNext } />
+          </Menu.Menu>
+          <Menu.Menu position='right'>
+            <Menu.Item
+              name='Filters'
+              onClick={ this.onFiltersClicked } />
+          </Menu.Menu>
+        </Menu>
+
         <TriceTimelineVis ref={ this.visRef }
            triceLog={ this.props.triceLog }
            onEventClicked={ this.onEventClicked }
diff --git a/src/grok-ui/components/trice_timeline/timeline_vis.jsx b/src/grok-ui/components/trice_timeline/timeline_vis.jsx
index e73a2fe..d7866ee 100644
--- a/src/grok-ui/components/trice_timeline/timeline_vis.jsx
+++ b/src/grok-ui/components/trice_timeline/timeline_vis.jsx
@@ -76,6 +76,10 @@ export default class TriceTimelineVis extends DirtyingComponent {
     actual.moveTo(time);
   }
 
+  get visJsWidget() {
+    return this.timelineRef.current && this.timelineRef.current.$el;
+  }
+
   componentDidMount() {
     this.timeline = this.timelineRef.current.$el;
     if (this.props.onRangeChanged) {
@@ -96,6 +100,10 @@ export default class TriceTimelineVis extends DirtyingComponent {
       height: '600px',
       zoomMin: 10,
       zoomMax: 1 * 1000 * 1000,
+      // require holding down control to use the scroll-wheel to zoom, otherwise
+      // it's super weird to scroll and then hit the timeline and have it start
+      // zooming.
+      zoomKey: 'ctrlKey',
       format: {
         minorLabels: function(date/*, scale/*, step*/) {
           const relTicks = Math.floor(date * triceLog.SCALE / 1000000);
diff --git a/src/grokysis/frontend/trice_log.js b/src/grokysis/frontend/trice_log.js
index fb406a7..40f7844 100644
--- a/src/grokysis/frontend/trice_log.js
+++ b/src/grokysis/frontend/trice_log.js
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
 import EE from 'eventemitter3';
+import bounds from 'binary-search-bounds';
 
 export default class TriceLog extends EE {
   constructor({ events, config }) {
@@ -10,11 +11,15 @@ export default class TriceLog extends EE {
      * The events as parsed out of the nd-json file, unfiltered, but with some
      * normalizations perormed in place that ideally would have happened during
      * trace generation.  In particular:
+     * - Sorted by tick (ascending).  We need a sorting invariant and this is
+     *   it.
      * - Strings are normalized from `0xf00 "string"` to just `string`.  This
      *   is because the pretty printers are getting involved be helpful, but
      *   it's not actually that helpful.
      */
     this.rawEvents = events;
+    events.sort((a, b) => a.tick - b.tick);
+
     /**
      * The (effective) TOML config file that was used to generate the trace and
      * may have display hints built-in.  By effective, I mean that this might
@@ -434,4 +439,24 @@ export default class TriceLog extends EE {
     const bin = Math.floor(this.NBINS * relTickTime / tickSpan);
     return bin;
   }
+
+  findfirstEventBeforeItemTime(itemTime) {
+    // we can stay in scaled space for this.
+    const idx = bounds.lt(this.filteredVisItems, { start: itemTime },
+                          (a, b) => a.start - b.start);
+    if (idx === -1) {
+      return null;
+    }
+    return this.filteredVisItems[idx];
+  }
+
+  findfirstEventAfterItemTime(itemTime) {
+    // we can stay in scaled space for this.
+    const idx = bounds.gt(this.filteredVisItems, { start: itemTime },
+                          (a, b) => a.start - b.start);
+    if (idx === -1) {
+      return null;
+    }
+    return this.filteredVisItems[idx];
+  }
 }