BHP Timeline

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  • 139,000 BCE

    Big Bang

    13.9 billion years ago all matter expanded out from a single point creating our universe.
  • Period: 139,000 BCE to 137,000 BCE

    Large Scale

  • 137,000 BCE

    Stars Light Up

    13.7 billion years ago or 200 million years after the big bang the first stars appeared from the differences in matter and gravity tying everything together.
  • 12,000 BCE

    Hominids Appear

    The first hominids appeared around 7 million years ago. They were the earliest apes that evolved into us human beings.
  • Period: 12,000 BCE to

    Small Scale

  • 276 BCE

    Eratosthenes

    Greek guy found circumference of the Earth.
  • 100

    Ptolemy

    Ptolemy was born on 100 AD in ancient greece. He was a greek astronomer that created the early models of the universe.
  • 1473

    Copernicus

    Challenged the idea of a geocentric view of the universe.
  • 1546

    Brahe

    Made accurate observations of the stars
  • 1561

    Bacon

    Developed scientific method.
  • 1564

    Galileo

    Proved Copernicus's idea using his modified telescope.
  • 1571

    Kepler

    Known for the laws of planetary motion.

  • Descartes

    He was skeptical.

  • Locke

    Liberal. Believed people shape who they are and aren't born who they are.

  • Newton

    Discovered gravity,

  • Mendeleev

    Organized all the elements, known and unknown in a table we call the periodic table.

  • Curie

    Studied and created some radioactive elements which lead to the creation of medical devices like x-rays.

  • Leavitt

    Found out about the light in the universe and measured the size of our universe.

  • Wegener

    Found the countries fit like a puzzle and moved!!!

  • Hubble

    Hubble proved the universe is expanding.

  • Hess

    Plate tectonics. He created it in WW2.