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History of Earth

  • Earth was formed
    4600 BCE

    Earth was formed

    Earth was thought to have been formed 4.6 Billion years ago (4600 Million years ago) by a collision that also created the sun.
  • 1st forms of life
    3800 BCE

    1st forms of life

    They think 3.8 Billion years ago was when life started to form on planet Earth
  • Oxygen entered Earth
    2450 BCE

    Oxygen entered Earth

    Scientists believe oxygen entered Earth close to 2.45 Billion years ago
  • 1st Eukaryotes
    2100 BCE

    1st Eukaryotes

    Close to 2.1 Billion years ago, Eukaryotes organisms entered the Earth. They were believed to be more complex and bigger
  • 1st multicellular life
    600 BCE

    1st multicellular life

    600 Million years ago, the first forms of multicellular life came to Earth
  • Ordovician Silurian mass extinction
    443 BCE

    Ordovician Silurian mass extinction

    The Ordovician Silurian extinction was the second biggest extinction of Marine life
  • Late Devonian mass extinction
    359 BCE

    Late Devonian mass extinction

    People thought it would affect the insects and plants but it wiped out all of marine life
  • Pangaea formed
    270 BCE

    Pangaea formed

    Pangaea was a continent that existed during the Paleozoic and early Mesozoic eras.
  • Permian mass extinction
    248 BCE

    Permian mass extinction

    This was the boundary between Permian and Triassic geological periods. It is the Earths most known extinction events with up to 96% of all marine species and 70% of terrestrial vertebrate species becoming extinct
  • Pangaea begins to break up
    200 BCE

    Pangaea begins to break up

    Pangaea begins to break up around 200 Million years ago during the early Jurassic period
  • Triassic Jurassic mass extinction
    200 BCE

    Triassic Jurassic mass extinction

    This is one of the most major extinction events of the Phanerozoic eon that affected the lands and the oceans.
  • Cretaceous Tertiary mass extinction
    65 BCE

    Cretaceous Tertiary mass extinction

    This was a mass extinction that took away 3/4 of the plant and animal species on earth
  • 1st Homo sapiens
    2 BCE

    1st Homo sapiens

    Nearly 200,000 years ago, the first Homo Sapiens were on Earth. Most of the first skeletons come from Africa or Southwest Asia