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1 CE
Hadean Event: Proto-Earth and Planetoid Theia Collide
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1 CE
Origin of Earth
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10
Oldest Rocks
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17
Earliest Chemical Evidence of Life
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17
Archean Event: Oceans Cool & Form
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54
First Eukaryotic Cells Appear
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60
Free Oxygen in the Atmosphere
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69
Formation of Early Rodinia
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84
Early Multicellular Organisms
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84
Proterozoic Event: Snowball Earth Hypothesis
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88
Cambrian Explosion
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88
Early Shelled Organisms
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89
Early Fish Appear
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90
End-Ordovician Extinction
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91
First Land Animals
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91
Late Devonian Extinction
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91
Acadian Orogeny
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93
Final Assembly of Pangea
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93
Earliest Trees Appear + Formation of Coal Deposits
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94
End-Permian Extinction
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95
Dinosaurs Become Dominant
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95
End-Triassic Extinction
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95
Mesozoic: Major Volcanic Eruptions
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96
Earliest Angiosperms Appear
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97
Coniferous Plants are most abundant
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98
North America and Europe Separate
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98
End-Cretaceous/ K-PG Extinction
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99
Mammals + Flowering Plants Become Abundant
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99
Great American Biotic Interchange
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99
First primate, genus Homo appears
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99
Beginning of Recorded Human History
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99
My Birth Year (2001)
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99
Modern Homo Sapiens Appear
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99
Most Recent Ice Age Ends