These proofs, and probably others too, need some text that shows the "point" or overall gist of the narrative. Normies are notorious for not being able to put two or three pieces of information together and see the big picture. There needs to be text that's like "this is the point of this proof"… "this shows that such-and-such happened one day BEFORE such-and-such." It has to be like a children's book, I'm not even joking. Remember, the reason why we're drawn to patterns and they are not is because we see patterns and they don't. So TELL them the pattern, don't just show it.
This has some decent examples, where you see descriptive text that tells people what they are looking at.