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  the Earth formed 4.6 billion years ago.
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  Formation of rock happened arround 4 billion years ago.
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  The first bacterium-like fossils were found about 3.5 billion years ago in West Australia and South Africa
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  First animal fossil found 600 million years ago
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  Paleozoic era, beginning with an explosion of the diversity of life, with most animal phyla appearing withing the first few million years of the era, and ending with a mass extinction of many species, about 248 million years ago (-543 million to -248 million years ago)
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  -430 million years ago
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  -360 million years ago
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  -300 million years ago
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  Mesozoic era, encompassing the Triassic, Jurassic and Cretaceous Periods, and beginning with the mass extinction marking the end of the Paleozoic era
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  -150 million years ago
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  Cenozoic era, beginning with the mass extinction of most dinosaurs, and leading to the diversity of flowering plants, insects, mammals and birds that we see today (-65 million to present)
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  Massive extinction of dinosaurs (some birds survive)
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  -2.5 million years ago
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  500000 B.C.E
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  Modern human beings now the only human species remaining on the planet (30000 B.C.E)
