Earth

Creation of Earth

By fangr1
  • Period: 5000 BCE to 1 BCE

    Millions of years ago

  • 4640 BCE

    Solar System coalesced

  • 4567 BCE

    Planetary Accretion

  • 4540 BCE

    Earth was formed

  • 4500 BCE

    Earth's crust was formed

  • 4500 BCE

    Moon was formed

  • Period: 4500 BCE to 3800 BCE

    End of Heavy Bombardment

  • Period: 4500 BCE to 3800 BCE

    Planetary Cooling

  • 3800 BCE

    First ocean was formed

  • 3770 BCE

    First life on Earth

  • 1500 BCE

    Oxygen began to accumulate in Earth's atmosphere

  • Period: 1500 BCE to 1000 BCE

    Earth's core was formed

  • 700 BCE

    First animals evolved

  • Period: 541 BCE to 485 BCE

    Cambrian Period

    Invertebrate sea life proliferating
  • Period: 485 BCE to 444 BCE

    Ordovician Period

    Cambrian-Ordovician extinction, diverse marine invertebrates
  • Period: 443 BCE to 419 BCE

    Silurian Period

    The shortest period of the Palaeozoic Era, coral reefs, first jawed fish
  • Period: 419 BCE to 359 BCE

    Devonian Period

    Plants beginning to cover the land, first successful species of trees
  • Period: 359 BCE to 299 BCE

    Carboniferous Period

    Reptiles, high oxygen percentage in air, maximum coal formation in swampy forests
  • Period: 299 BCE to 252 BCE

    Permian Period

    Mass extinction
  • Period: 252 BCE to 201 BCE

    Triassic Period

    The first and shortest period of the Mesozoic Era, early dinosaurs, crocodiles, first mammals
  • Period: 201 BCE to 145 BCE

    Jurassic Period

    Age of reptiles, earliest known birds
  • Period: 201 BCE to 186 BCE

    Cretaceous Period

    Dinosaurs dominate, mass extinction (at the end of the period), seed-bearing plants appeared
  • Period: 65 BCE to 25 BCE

    Paleogene Period

    Beginning of the Cenozoic Era, increasingly diverse mammals and birds
  • Period: 25 BCE to

    Neogene Period (Present)

    Humans