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Timeline of Earth Redone
Created by
Emily Rudo
⟶ Updated 1 Oct 2018 ⟶
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January 1: Origin of Japanese Era
April 7, 1874 3:53:17 pm Moon formed - tilted earth to 23.5°, creating seasons
April 5: Birkenhead Park, the first civic public park, opens in Birkenhead, England, designed by Joseph Paxton
March 20, 1875 6:21:36 am Bombarded with debris, heat of contraction and radioactive breakdown kept planet too hot for an atmosphere or surface moisture
March 1: US Congress passes Civil Rights Act
March 3: 1st recorded hockey game (Montreal)
April 30, 1890 12:47:19 am The planet cooled enough to allow accumulation of atmosphere and surface water (oceans formed)
April 18: NY Commission of Emigration ends, closing Castle Clinton
4,570,000,000 years ago
4,530,000,000 years ago
4,500,000,000 years ago
4,000,000,000 years ago
3,800,000,000 years ago
September 1, 1896 10:14:02 pm Reducing atmosphere formed of NH4, CN4, H2O(v), CO2, N2, with enormous amounts of ultra violet radiation
September 7: A. H. Whiting wins the 1st automobile race held on a closed-circuit track in Cranston, Rhode Island
March 6, 1906 4:29:22 pm Prokaryotic cells in ocean Many hypotheses exist regarding the origin and evolution of the of the first cells
3,500,000,000 years ago
March 6: Nora Blatch is 1st woman elected to American Society of Civil Engineers
April 16, 1921 10:55:05 am First photosynthetic prokaryotic cells, many life forms in the oceans die as oxygen increase Oxygen begins to accumulate in the atmosphere and in the oceans for the first time
3,000,000,000 years ago
April 11: First sports broadcast on the radio takes place
December 22, 1933 5:52:00 am Some oxygen converted to ozone to form a protective layer against UV radiation First life on surface of ocean/land possible because of protection from ultraviolet radiation
January 1, 1873 12:00:00 am No life on Earth The planet formed
2,600,000,000 years ago
December 21: Newfoundland reverts to being a crown colony of Great Britain
December 26: FM radio patent granted to American engineer Edwin Howard Armstrong
December 30, 1952 10:17:24 pm Columbia super-continent, reduced coastline, created a vast worldwide ocean with strong currents First eukaryotic cells – plant, animal, and fungi lineages are all present
2,000,000,000 years ago
December 30: Tuskegee Institute reports 1952 as 1st year in 71 years with no lynchings in US
September 14, 1984 9:41:28 am Rodinia super-continent First multicellular life
1,000,000,000 years ago
September 14: 1st MTV Video Music Awards: The Cars win with "You Might Think"
September 16: 1st broadcast of "Miami Vice" on NBC-TV
September 4, 1991 8:09:50 pm First land plants and fungi
780,000,000 years ago
September 4: "Most Happy Fella" opens at NY State Theater NYC
September 5: Nelson Mandela chosen as president of African National Congress
August 26, 1999 11:00:51 am First vertebrates in ocean
530,000,000 years ago
August 20: 7th Athletics World Championships open at Seville, Spain
August 31: "Fly" 5th studio album by Dixie Chicks is released (Grammy Award Best Country Album 2000, Billboard Album of the Year 2000
December 26, 2000 6:31:19 am Ordovician extinction
488,000,000 years ago
December 12: United States Supreme Court releases its decision in Bush v. Gore
December 28: U.S. retail giant Montgomery Ward announces it is going out of business after 128 years
March 12, 2002 4:57:25 am First arthropods on land
450,000,000 years ago
March 19: U.S. invasion of Afghanistan: Operation Anaconda ends (started on March 2) after killing 500 Taliban and al Qaeda fighters with 11 allied troop fatalities
March 12: Animated film "Ice Age" directed by Chris Wedge and Carlos Saldanha, premieres
380,000,000 years ago
May 31, 2004 11:18:07 am First amphibians on land
May 29: The World War II Memorial is dedicated in Washington, D.C
May 31: "Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban", the 3rd film based on the books by J. K. Rowling is released in UK
July 10, 2005 2:28:28 am Devonian extinction
345,000,000 years ago
July 10: Hurricane Dennis slams into the Florida Panhandle causing billions of dollars in damage
July 7: Coordinated terrorist bomb blasts strike London's public transport system during the morning rush hour killing 52 and injuring 700
April 3: US President Barack Obama officially secures Democratic presidential nomination
April 9: "The Lion King" becomes highest grossing Broadway show after overtaking "The Phantom of the Opera"
April 10: Apple Inc. claims a value of $600 billion making it the largest company by market capitalization in the world
April 11: "The Avengers", directed by Joss Whedon and starring Robert Downey Jr., Chris Evans, Chris Hemsworth, Scarlet Johansson, Mark Ruffalo and Jeremy Renner, premieres
May 3, 2012 8:25:15 am Meteor off the Yucatan Peninsula occluded sunlight with particulate matter, which inhibited autotrophs Cretaceous extinction – most large animals become extinct
65,000,000 years ago
May 2: A pastel version of "The Scream", by Norwegian painter Edvard Munch sells at auction for $119,922,500
May 2: Barcelona football player Lionel Messi breaks the European goal-scoring record with 68 goals
May 12: The discovery of a missing Mayan calendar piece disproves 2012 Armageddon
February 24, 2014 6:04:24 am First hominids
63,000,000 years ago
February 17: US Secretary of State John Kerry claims climate change requires urgent action and that only a small "window of time" remained open
February 24: A 4.4 billion-year-old Crystal is discovered to be the oldest known fragment from the earth's crust
May 2, 2014 8:35:54 pm First Homo spp.
6,000,000 years ago
May 1: Hundreds march through Nigerian capital calling for the release of schoolgirls abducted by Islamic militants, Boko Haram, who oppose Western education
Today
Discovery of the theory of Relativity by Einstein
August 1, 2007 8:07:08 am Pangaea super-continent possibly caused by a meteor that hit Antarctica Permian extinction, 95% of life on earth goes extinct
280,000,000 years ago
August 19, 2006 5:38:49 pm First mammals on land
310,000,000 years ago
August 6: Tiger Woods becomes the youngest player to compile 50 PGA Tour wins with a 3 stroke victory in the Buick Open at Grand Blanc, Michigan
August 24: The International Astronomical Union (IAU) redefines the term "planet" such that Pluto is considered a Dwarf Planet.
August 1: The I-35W Mississippi River Bridge spanning the Mississippi River in Minneapolis, Minnesota, collapses during the evening rush hour
August 4: 32-year-old Alex Rodriguez becomes the youngest player in MLB history to hit 500 home runs, connecting on the 1st pitch he sees as NY Yankees beat Kansas City, 16-8
March 2, 2009 1:31:26 am First dinosaurs
230,000,000 years ago
March 4: International Criminal Court issues an arrest warrant for Sudanese President Omar Hassan al-Bashir for war crimes and crimes against humanity in Darfur becoming the first sitting head of state to be indicted
Mar 31: "Boom Boom Pow" single released by The Black Eyed Peas (Grammy Award for Best Music Video 2010, Billboard Song of the Year 2009)
October 2, 2010 6:55:44 pm Gondwanaland and Laurasia super-continents Triassic extinction
180,000,000 years ago
October 6: Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger launch Instagram
September 15, 2011 9:24:03 am First birds
150,000,000 years ago
September 12: "Love On Top" single released by Beyoncé (Grammy Award Best Traditional R&B Performance 2013, Billboard Song of the Year 2012)
September 20: The United States ends its "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy, allowing gay men and women to serve openly for the first time.
September 20: "Call Me Maybe", single by Canadian singer Carly Rae Jepsen, is released
April 10, 2012 4:53:18 am First angiosperms (flowering plants)
132,000,000 years ago
Death of Sir Winston Churchill
Women were granted the right to vote
Stock market crash occurred in the United States
9/11
Berlin Wall comes down
Dedication of Statue of Liberty
Periods
World War I
World War II
Spanish-American War