BHP Timeline: Smaller Scale By jaelinisabela 66,000 BCE Hominids Appear (66 Million Years.) 13,900 BCE Big Bang 13.9 Billion Years, but the dates don't go too far. 276 BCE Eratosthenes Is Born 85 BCE Prolemy Is Born 1473 Copernicus Is Born 1543 Copernicus discovers that the Earth is in the center Dec 14, 1546 Brahe Is Born Jan 22, 1561 Bacon Is Born 1564 Galileo Is Born Dec 27, 1571 Kepler Is Born Mar 31, 1596 Descartes Is Born Aug 29, 1632 Locke Is Born 1643 Newton Is Born 1834 Mendeleev Is Born 1867 Curie Is Born 1868 Leavitt Is Born 1869 Mendeleev Organizes The Periodic Table Nov 1, 1880 Wegener Is Born 1889 Hubble Is Born May 24, 1906 Hess Is Born 1915 Wegener Publishes "The Origin of Continents and Oceans." 1962 Hess Publishes His Theory, "History of Ocean Basins"