Billion Years Ago
13.82 | Big Bang | |
5.5 | Our solar system and earth forms | |
5.4 | planet hits earth, creating moon | |
4.5 | First life on earth | |
Million Years Ago | ||
600 | Cambrian explosion of life | |
250 | The Permian–Triassic (P–Tr) extinction event, colloquially known as the Great Dying, over 90% of life goes extinct | |
65 | Asteroid wipes out 50% of life; everything over 100 lbs., including dinosaurs (human, reptile and bird ancestors survive) | |
40 | India slams into Asia | |
55 | 28 | Florida emerges from underwater |
6 to 34 | Giant "terror" birds lived in Argentina, ate small horses | |
5 | Giant "terror" birds from South America, 7 feet high, lived in Texas and Florida (Citrus & Gilchrist Counties) | |
5 to 10 | The actual last common ancestor of chimps and humans | |
10 | 4.4 | Ardi, 4 ft. high female primate, walked upright |
5 | 3.2 | Lucy, first known human-like primate (hominid) |
3 | Central America land bridge gap closed in Panama | |
2.6 | earliest known stone tools | |
BC | 581,000 | common male and female ancestor from DNA studies |
135,000 | Thousands of humans in Africa, | |
80,000 | Modern humans left Africa | |
28,000 | Ice age begins, exposing Bering Sea land bridge from Siberia to Alaska, Eskimos began crossing. | |
14,000 | Paleo-Indians entered what is now Florida at least 14,000 years ago. | |
10,000 | Indians reach South America | |
6,000 to 10,000 | Possible Garden of Eden in Southern Turkey where the Tigris & Euphrates originate or Southern Iraq where these rivers flow into the Persian Gulf. The word Mesopotamia translated is "the land between the Tigris & Euphrates rivers.'' | |
5,600 | Warming begins, Mediterranean Sea rises causing Great Black Sea flood, according to Robert Ballard | |
3,400 | Prehistory ended with the invention of hieroglyphics and similar writings | |
2,800 | End of ice age - Bering Sea land bridge covered by water | |
1,490 | Moses fled Egypt - maybe | |
660 | Byzantium founded | |
4 | Chinese observe supernova which may have been the Star of Bethlehem | |
? | Eskimos venture south, becoming American Indians | |
? | American Indians enter Central America | |
? | Humans enter China | |
? | humans enter Europe | |
AD (Anno Domini) | ||
79 | Vesuvius erupted. | |
95 | John of (the Greek island of) Patmos wrote Revelation. | |
325 | Bible compiled to fulfil order of 25? scripts from Roman Emperor Constantine the Great | |
330 | Byzantium renamed Constantinople by Constantine the great. | |
1436 | Gutenberg press invented, perfected 1450 | |
1454 | first Bibles printed, version ? | |
1930 | Constantinople renamed Istanbul | |
7012 | Earth's magnetic field predicted to reverse |