The History of Earth

  • Period: 4540 BCE to 4400 BCE

    Hadean

    Earth was formed from the cluster of solar nebula due to the gravitational and electrostatic force. The temperature is extremely hot and the atmosphere is nebular but it started to cool down.
  • Period: 4000 BCE to 2500 BCE

    Archean

    Earth's crust has cooled to a degree enabling life and continent to form.
  • Period: 2500 BCE to 541 BCE

    Proterozoic

    Multicellular life was formed, bacteria began to produce oxygen to the atmosphere, plants, animals and fungi formed.
  • Precambrian
    600 BCE

    Precambrian

  • Cambrian
    543 BCE

    Cambrian

  • Period: 543 BCE to 300 BCE

    Paleozoic

    The era began with the breakup of one supercontinent and the formation of another. Plants became widespread. And the first vertebrate animals colonized land
  • Period: 541 BCE to 1 CE

    Phanerozoic

    Complex life, including vertebrates, begin to dominate the Earth's ocean in a process known as the Cambrian explosion. Pangaea forms and later dissolves into Laurasia and Gondwana, which in turn dissolve into the current continents.
  • Ordovician
    489 BCE

    Ordovician

  • Silurian
    443 BCE

    Silurian

  • Devonian
    418 BCE

    Devonian

  • Carboniferous
    362 BCE

    Carboniferous

  • Permian
    300 BCE

    Permian

  • Triassic
    251 BCE

    Triassic

  • Period: 251 BCE to 146 BCE

    Mesozoic

    During the Mesozoic, or "Middle Life" Era, life diversified rapidly and giant reptiles, dinosaurs and other monstrous beasts roamed the Earth. The period, which spans from about 252 million years ago to about 66 million years ago, was also known as the age of reptiles or the age of dinosaurs.
  • Jurassic
    200 BCE

    Jurassic

  • Cretaceous
    146 BCE

    Cretaceous

  • Period: 146 BCE to 1 BCE

    Cenozoic

    Cenozoic Era, third of the major eras of Earth’s history, beginning about 66 million years ago and extending to the present. It was the interval of time during which the continents assumed their modern configuration and geographic positions and during which Earth’s flora and fauna evolved toward those of the present.
  • Tertiary
    65 BCE

    Tertiary

  • Quaternary
    1 BCE

    Quaternary