Major Events In Earth's History

Tectoic Plates

3 BCE

Impacts began to taper 3.8 billion years ago. The next billion years saw crust breaking into plates.

Moon Formed

2 BCE

4.4 billion years ago, so big that the rocky rubble began to orbit Earth. This created the moon.

Earth Colliding

1 BCE

Earth collided for millions of years with debris from the original solar disk,