Earth timeline (in the making)
Category: History
Updated: 6 days ago
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Earth was createdEarth is struck by Theia and creates the moonOver 1.5 billion years Earth keeps getting hit by asteroidsLife startedEarth cools and gains waterEarth Become mostly or completely covered in waterLuca DecendedFirst large land mass emergesEarth freezes over becoming the first snowball earthEukaryotic cells come into beingEukaryotic cells evolve and develop sexual reproductionEukaryotic cells engulf photosynthetic bacteriaMulticellular organisms ariseEukaryotes splits into the ancestors of modern plant, fungi and animalsFirst recognisable animal formedFungi evolve multicellular body plansEarly multicellular animals undergo their first split into sponges and Eumetazoa.Placozoa breaks away from the rest of the EumetazoaAnimals evolve bilateral symmetryThe Bilateria undergo an evolutionary split into protostomes and deuterostomesEdiacarans appearAmbulacraria breaks off of deuterostomeschordates first appearEdiacarans die outThe Cambrian explosion beginsThe first true vertebrates appeartrilobites appearConodonts appearPlants begin colonising the landParasites are aroundanimals were exploring the landThe bony fish split into the lobe finned fish and the ray finned fishcoelacanths split from the lobe finned fishthe lungfish split from lobe finned fishplants with elaborate root systems that stabilize the soil growInsects appearplants evolve woody stemsfour-legged animals or tetrapod's appearThe oldest fossilised tree dates from this periodTiktaalik an intermediate between fish and four-legged land animals appeartetrapods make it on landthe amphibians split off of tetrapodssauropsids and synapsids split off from tetrapodsa group of therapsids called the cynodonts evolve and becomes the first mammalsThe Permian period ends with the greatest mass extinction including the last of the trilobitesas the ecosystem recovers dinosaurs rule the earththe ammonites evoloveProto-mammals evolve warm-bloodednessearly dinosaurs are already evolving into birdsthe Triassic period comes to an ends and another extinction event happensThe first split occurs in the early mammal population.Epidexipteryx livesplacental mammals split from their cousins the marsupialsArchaeopteryx the famous “first bird” livesEoconfuciusornis a bird rather more advanced than Archaeopteryx livesFlowering plants begin growingThe Cretaceous dinosaurs reach their peak in sizeThe giant sauropods Argentinosaurus and Patagotitan livesThe oceans become starved of oxygen27% of marine invertebrates are wiped outThe ancestors of modern primates split from the ancestors of modern rodents and lagomorphsGrasses evolveThe Cretaceous-Tertiary extinction wipes out a swathe of speciesThe primates split into two groups, known as the haplorrhines, strepsirrhinesThe tarsiers, split from the rest of the haplorrhines: the first to do soThe Palaeocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum happensArchicebus, one of the earliest primates livesone group of artiodactyls evolves into whales. Early forms include Pakicetus.Indohyus livesThe famous fossilised primate known as “Ida” livesEarly whales called protocetids liveThe platyrrhines become the first simians to diverge from the rest of the group, when they cross the Atlantic too South America.Some plants evolve C4 photosynthesisApes split from the monkeys and diversify.Gibbons become the first ape to split from the othersThe ponginae branch off from the other great apes, spreading to southern Asia while their cousins remain in AfricaGorillas branch off from the other great apesThe ancestors of humans diverge from those of their closest relativesOur human genus, Homo, appears in Africa.A 700-kilogram rodent called Josephoartigasia monesi livesAntony's forces achive victory but with many desertersOldest recorded eruption of mount FujiPope Sergius IV becomes the 142nd popeAttempted usurpation by John Komnenos the fat for the throne of Alexios III AngelosBattle of CravantJacques Cœur is arrested by order of Charles VII of FranceAll remaining Jews are expelled from spainchristopher columbus is the first european to discover TrinidadMaurice, Prince of Orange disbands the Waardgelders militiaThe russian army enters the capital of the grand Duchy of lithuania, Vilnius which it holds for six yearsAurangzeb is Proclaimed Mughal emperor of indiaDaniel Defoe is placed in a pillorySeven days after a Spanish treasure fleet of 12 ships left Havana, Cuba for Spain, 11 of them sinkCharles Albert of Bavaria invades upper austria and BohemiaBattle of Bloody RunThe U.S Second Continental Congress passes a resolution that the services of Lafayette "be accepted"The first U.S patent is issued, to inventor Samuel Hopkins for a Potash processChristchurch, New Zealand, is charted as a cityThe first narrow-gauge mainline railway in the world opens at Grandchester, Queensland, AustraliaPatrick Francis Healy became the first African-American inaugurated as president of a predominantly white university.Battle of HsimuchengThe NSDAP (Nazi Party) wins more than 38% of the vote in german electionsBulgaria signs a non-aggression pact with states of Balkan AntantiArchaeologists discover engraved gold and silver plates from king Darius the Great in PersepolisOfficial Hermann Göring orders SS General Reinhard Heydrich to "submit to me as soon as possible"Pierre Laval, the fugitive former leader of Vincy France, surrenders to allied soldiers in austriaAt Idlewild field in New York, New York international airport is dedicated.The USS Nevada is sunk by an aerial torpedo (gunfire practice)Ranger 7 sends back the first close-up photographs of the moonThe pleasure cruiser MV Darlwyne disappeared off the Cornwall coast with the loss of all 31 aboardBlack Tot Day the last day of the officially sanctioned rum ration in the royal navyThe apollo 15 astronaughts become the first to ride in a lunar roverThe troubles: in operation Motorman, the British army re-takes the urban no-go areas of Northern Ireland.The Troubles: 9 civilians are killed by car bombs in the village of ClaudyA Delta Air Lines jetliner, flight DL 723 crashes while landing in fog at Logan international airport killing 89The Troubles: Three members of a popular cabaret bandThe Troubles: Two gunmen are killed during a botched paramilitary attack in Northern IrelandA tornado occurs in Edmonton, Alberta, USA killing 27 people32 people are killed and 1674 people injured when a bridge at the Sultan Abdul Halim ferry terminal collapses in Butterworth, Penang, MalaysiaThe US and Soviet Union both sign the START , The first to reduce both countries stockpiles of nukes and ICBMsThe country of Georgia joins the UNThe space shuttle Atlantis is launched on STS-46 to deploy the European Retrievable Carrier and the Tethered Satellite SystemThai Airways International Flight 311 crashes into a mountain north of Kathmandu, Nepal killing all 113 people aboardChina General Aviation Flight 7552 crashes during takeoff from Nanjing Dajiaochang airport killing 108 peopleFedEx express flight 14 crashes at Newark International airport injuring 5The Lunar Prospector is intentionally crashed into the moon,
ending its mission to detect frozen water on the moons surfaceFidel Castro hands over power to his brother Raúloperation Banner: the presence of the British army in Northern Ireland ends
making it the longest running British army operation everEast coast jets flight 81 crashes near Owatonna Degner Regional Airport in Owatonna, Minnesota killing all 8 on boardMichael Phelps breaks the record for the most medals won at the Olympics set in 1964 by Larisa LatyninaEmperor Nijō of japan was bornPeriods
The Great oxidization event happensEarth freezes over againThe placental mammals split into their four major groups: the laurasiatheres, euarchontoglires, Xenarthra, afrotheresfish split into the bony fish and cartilaginous fishFish with teeth appearThe Late Ordovician mass extinction happensThe Late Devonian mass extinction occurspelycosaurs evolve into therapsids and eventualy replace all pelycosaursBattle of AlexandriaHundred years' warPolish-Russian warPontiac's warThe Russo-Japanese warWorld War 1The Battle of PasschendaeleWorld War 2Battle of Smolensk (German Historiography)Battle of Smolensk (Soviet Historiography)The troubelsThe Suez crisisIrish war of independence
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