History of Earth

Big Bang

9999 BCE

The most popular theory for the origination of the universe is the big bang theory. It is theorised that about 14 billion years ago the universe was inside a bubble smaller than the size of a pinhead, it then exploded and continued to expand

Earth Forms

9998 BCE

Earth formed 4.54 BYA. It started off as a big cloud of dust and gas, overtime the dust and gas slowly fused together until it became a sphere of hot liquid, meteors and asteroids collided with this sphere making it bigger and bigger. Over millions of years it then cooled down and formed a thin outer crust

Oceans on Earth

9997 BCE

Large amounts of steam and lava surface from earth's core, the steam forms clouds and it rains for thousands of years, this rain and asteroids that carry ice colliding with earth is enough to create oceans of water

First known life form

9996 BCE

The earliest undisputed evidence of life on earth is around 3.5 billion years old however there is evidence that suggests life on earth could have began upto 4.5 billion years ago

Land on Earth

9995 BCE

undersea volcanoes release magma into the ocean which eventually cools and solidifies into one large supercontinent.

Supercontinent Splits

9994 BCE

Due to movement of Tectonic plates the supercontinent Pangaea began to break apart and eventually forming the continents we see today such as America, Africa etc

Humans appear

9993 BCE

Around 7 million years ago human ancestors started to appear in ape-like creatures that walked on 2 feet. It is believed that modern humans appeared around 130,000 years ago.