History of life on Earth

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  • 4600 BCE

    Formation of Earth

    Formation of Earth
  • Period: 4600 BCE to 4000 BCE

    Hadeon Eon

  • 4500 BCE

    Loss of Earth's atmosphere

  • 4404 BCE

    First appearance of liquid

  • 4280 BCE

    Earliest appearance of life

  • Period: 4000 BCE to 2500 BCE

    Archean Eon

  • 3500 BCE

    Lifetime of the last universal ancestor

  • 3500 BCE

    First procaryotes

  • 3000 BCE

    Evolution of photosynthesising cyanobacteria

  • 2500 BCE

    Great oxygenation event

  • Period: 2500 BCE to 542 BCE

    Proterozoic Eon

  • 2000 BCE

    Diversification and expansion of acritarchs

  • 1500 BCE

    First eucaryotes

  • 800 BCE

    First multicellular organisms

  • 750 BCE

    First protozoa

    First protozoa
  • 650 BCE

    First soft-bodied organisms

  • 600 BCE

    Formation of ozone layer

  • 570 BCE

    First arthropods evolve

    First arthropods evolve
  • Period: 543 BCE to 1 CE

    Phanerozoic Eon

  • 540 BCE

    First trilobites

  • 530 BCE

    First fish

    First fish
  • 475 BCE

    First land plants

  • 410 BCE

    Fish become abundant

  • 385 BCE

    First forests

  • 370 BCE

    First amphibians

  • 350 BCE

    Earliest reptiles

  • 225 BCE

    Evolution of dinosaurs

    Evolution of dinosaurs
  • 208 BCE

    First birds

  • 200 BCE

    Evolution of mammals

  • 130 BCE

    Evolution of flowering plants

  • 100 BCE

    First bees

  • 65 BCE

    Mass extinction

  • 65 BCE

    Dinosaurs and ammonites become extinct

  • 60 BCE

    First large mammals

    First large mammals
  • 14 BCE

    First great apes appear

  • 2 BCE

    Genus homo evolve

    Genus homo evolve