A. We classify simply-connected homogeneous (D + 1)-dimensional spacetimes for kinematical and aristotelian Lie groups with D-dimensional space isotropy for all D 0. Besides well-known spacetimes like Minkowski and (anti) de Sitter we find several new classes of geometries, some of which exist only for D = 1, 2. These geometries share the same amount of symmetry (spatial rotations, boosts and spatio-temporal translations) as the maximally symmetric spacetimes, but unlike them they do not necessarily admit an invariant metric. We determine the possible limits between the spacetimes and interpret them in terms of contractions of the corresponding transitive Lie algebras. We investigate geometrical properties of the spacetimes such as whether they are reductive or symmetric as well as the existence of invariant structures (riemannian, lorentzian, galilean, carrollian, aristotelian) and, when appropriate, discuss the torsion and curvature of the canonical invariant connection as a means of characterising the different spacetimes.A partial mathematical answer to this question is the classification of kinematical Lie algebras up to isomorphism, which started with the seminal work of Bacry and Lévy-Leblond [1] and of Bacry and Nuyts [2], who classified kinematical algebras (with space isotropy) in the classical case of 3 + 1 dimensions, and culminated recently with a classification in arbitrary dimension using techniques in deformation theory [3,4,5]. The reason this classification is only a partial answer is that the isomorphism type of the Lie algebra is too coarse an invariant: it does not determine uniquely the geometric realisation of the Lie algebra. The ur-example is the Lorentz Lie algebra so(D + 1, 1), which acts transitively and isometrically both on de Sitter spacetime and on hyperbolic space in D + 1 dimensions, and, in what is possibly a new twist on an old tale, we will see that it also acts transitively on a carrollian spacetime of the same dimension.The first step towards a complete answer to the fundamental question was taken already in the original paper [1] of Bacry and Lévy-Leblond. Although restricted to 3 + 1 dimensions and to spacetimes admitting parity and time-reversal transformations, they already distinguish between the abstract Lie algebras and their geometric realisations on homogeneous spacetimes, arriving at a list of eleven possible kinematics. Our more refined analysis in this paper reduces that list to ten, since the para-galilean and static kinematical Lie algebras lead to isomorphic homogeneous aristotelian spacetimes. In addition, we drop the requirement of parity or time-reversal symmetries and we work in arbitrary (positive) dimension D + 1.More precisely, in this paper we give a more complete answer to the fundamental question by classifying the geometric realisations of kinematical Lie algebras on simply-connected homogeneous spacetimes. The classification we present in this paper, while encompassing the classical geometries like (anti) de Sitter, Minkowski, galilean and carrolli...