13.7 Billion - Big Bang
4.6 Billion - Solar System
3 Billion   - Bacteria
530 Million - Cambrian explosion of species
525 Million - Vertebrates (initially fish)
225 Million - Dinosaurs - First mammals
3 Million   - Hominids
500,000 - Homo Sapien (archaic) (See Human Migration,
   and Evolution.)
400,000 - Man begins to use fire
200-120,000 Homo Sapien Sapien (Modern  Man)
40,000 First tent site (discovered  in Russia)
7,700 Settlement in "Fertile Crescent" between Tigris and Euphrates - Iraq
6,500 Wheel Invented
6,300  Earliest dug-out canoe
4,500 First stringed harp in Sumerian city of Ur
4,400 First loom, Egypt
3,600 Southwestern Asians begin using bronze,
3,500  Sumerian civilization - many innovations
    cuneiform alphabet of idegram pictures
3,400 First dynasty in Egypt after union of N. & S. Kingdoms
2,500 The iron age begins in the Middle East
1,900 - 1,600 Stonehenge
1,193  Troy falls to the Greeks  in the Trojan War 528  Buddhism is founded by  Siddhartha,
400  Socrates
100 Paper invented in China

Bible:
4,000 BC Creation
2,350 BC Flood
2,000 BC Abraham
1,550 BC Egyption Slavery
1,446 BC Exodus
1,010 BC David
586 BC Babylonian Exile 
6 BC Jesus Born
30 AD Jesus 
See Also: Old Testament Timeline.


13.7 Billion years - Big bang
Solar System 4.6 Billion
Earth 4.6 billion years old, but the oldest rocks date to about 3.9 billion yrs. because the earth's surface became molten early in its history
3.5 billion prokaryotic cells (bacteria and cyanophytes) 
first eukaryotic cells, perhaps about two billion years ago, then multicellular animals about 600 million years ago.
Cretaceous-Tertiary extinction 65 million years ago: (asteroid seven to 10 kilometers in diameter))
Mammals and dinosaurs had coexisted for 100 million years,




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