History of Earth Time by Roxana Urbina

  • Earth is formed
    4600 BCE

    Earth is formed

    About 4,600 million years ago the earth began to form when a collision between disc-shaped clouds, soon the dust and gas clumped together to for Earth
  • 1st eukaryotes
    3800 BCE

    1st eukaryotes

    First form of eukaryotes was seen 3,800 million years ago creating larger bacteria organisms
  • 1st multicellular life
    3500 BCE

    1st multicellular life

    Life first began to be seen about 3,500 million years ago in small microscopic organisms
  • Oxygen enters atmosphere
    900 BCE

    Oxygen enters atmosphere

    Oxygen first was brought to the atmosphere by a bacteria giving off oxygen from photosynthesis
  • Ordovician extinction
    438 BCE

    Ordovician extinction

    One of the many major mass extinctions first occurred wiping out most life
  • Devonian extinction
    360 BCE

    Devonian extinction

    Mass extinction occurred shortly after Ordovician and created new ways to form life
  • Pangea formed
    270 BCE

    Pangea formed

    Earths land mass was once all connected and the formation was about 270 million years ago
  • Permian extinction
    245 BCE

    Permian extinction

    Extinction mainly affected first forms of life in first reptiles
  • Triassic extinction
    206 BCE

    Triassic extinction

    Extinctions of first species of dinosaurs
  • Pangea begins to breakup
    200 BCE

    Pangea begins to breakup

    The land formation began to swept are and form continents
  • Cretaceous extinction
    100 BCE

    Cretaceous extinction

    One of the most impacting extinctions which killed all forms of dinosaurs
  • Homo sapiens evolved
    20 BCE

    Homo sapiens evolved

    Humans first evolved and was from evolution of monkeys