Deep time: 4.5 billion years of Earth

Earth's history on one line, from its formation to a single second in 1969. Eons and eras are durations in the colours of the International Chronostratigraphic Chart; times are exact offsets from 2000 CE, shown in millions of years.

17 moments · -4540 million years – -0.000030448 million years · by @athan · @athan

Moments

1. Earth forms -4540 million years
2. Oldest known minerals -4404 million years
3. Early life: stromatolites -3480 million years
4. The Great Oxidation -2400 million years
5. Snowball Earth -720 million years
6. The Cambrian explosion -538.8 million years
7. Plants reach land -470 million years
8. Fish walk: Tiktaalik -375 million years
9. The Great Dying -251.9 million years
10. First dinosaurs -233 million years
11. The asteroid -66 million years
12. Earliest hominins -7 million years
13. Homo sapiens -0.3 million years
14. Farming begins -0.012 million years
15. Writing -0.0052 million years
16. The Great Pyramid -0.00456 million years
17. Apollo 11 lands on the Moon -0.000030448 million years