HISTORY OF THE WORLD

Last: Post-War America Back to Main Index PREHISTORY: -15bn to -1000 Combined chronological listing covering this period Ancient Middle East

-15,000,000,000 "Big Bang"
-4,600,000,000 Age of Sun and Earth
-4,000,000,000 First life appears on Earth (single-celled organisms)
-540,000,000 Cambrian Period - life proliferates in sea
-425,000,000 Vegetation colonizes land, and Arthropods first land animals
-230,000,000 First dinosaurs appear
-200,000,000 Continents begin to split into present configuration
-150,000,000 Archaeopteryx earliest known bird
-70,000,000 First primates and other modern mammals appear
-65,000,000 Dinosaurs die out
-4,000,000 Ape-like hominids first appear in Africa
-2,000,000 Australipithecidae makes tools, but later dies out
-750,000 Homo Habilus walks upright
-500,000 Homo Erectus - discovery of fire
-200,000 Neanderthal Man
-100,000 Anatomically modern Homo Sapiens appears in Africa
-25,000 Homo Sapiens reaches Europe - earliest Paleolithic art
-15,000 First Asian immigrants cross Bering Straits to North America
-9,000 Mastodons and other large animals become extinct
-8,000 End of last Ice Age
-6,000 New Stone Age (Neolithic) in Europe - settled agriculture
-3,000 Bronze Age in Europe
-1,800 Main circle built at Stonehenge, Britain
-1,000 Iron Age in Europe

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