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Outline of preprehistory

Began (-years) Name Events Duration (years)
-14 E9 Big bang Everything? 0
-14 E9 Preatomic Near the beginning of this period, helium nuclei (alpha particles) coalesce from free protons and neutrons. At the end of this period, electrons join with protons and alpha particles to form hydrogen and helium atoms, at which point space becomes transparent to light for the first time. 379 E3
-14 E9 Pregalactic Galaxies are currently thought to have begun forming around 600 million years after the Big bang. See reionization. 600 E6
-13 E9 Presolar 8e9 years of the history of the universe go by, during which all of the atoms in the Solar system (except H and He) form in stars and supernovae of the Milky Way galaxy. 8000 E6
-4600 E6 Solar nebula formation of the Sun and Solar system 100 E6
-4500 E6 Hadean Earth and Moon form from planetesimals at the beginning of this period 700 E6
-3800 E6 Archaean anaerobic prokaryotes (common ancestors of us and the Archea) 1300 E6
-2500 E6 Paleoproterozoic Cyanobacteria begin to produce free diatomic oxygen which floods the Earth's atmosphere and oceans. To the Archea, oxygen is a potent toxin, and they retreat to something like their contemporary habitats. 900 E6
-1600 E6 Mesoproterozoic sex and Rodinia 700 E6
-900 E6 Neoproterozoic algae and sponges? Sturtian-Varangian glaciation, AKA Snowball Earth. Rodinia breaks up toward end of this period. 466 E6
-543 E6 Cambrian great radiation of animal phyla 50 E6
-490 E6 Ordovician Appalachians form, trilobites, brachiopods, (Gondwana forms?) 50 E6
-443 E6 Silurian Plants and arthropods invade land, Laurasia starts to form 35 E6
-408 E6 Devonian First forests (of tree-ferns) appear. Plant/insect coevolution begins. Great radiation of bony fishes. 50 E6
-340 E6 Carboniferous Lignin-producing plants spread into vast forests. Trilobites become rare. Giant amphibians and giant dragonflies. (Urals form?) 60 E6
-280 E6 Permian One continent Pangaea and one ocean Panthalassa. First modern conifers. Period ends with a great extinction. 29 E6
-250 E6 Triassic First flowering plants, first flying vertebrates (pterosaurs). Pangaea endures as a single supercontinent. Massive volcanic eruptions (and extinctions) toward end of period as Pangaea begins to break up. 46 E6
-200 E6 Jurassic Great radiation of dinosaurs. Modern continents begin to form. 60 E6
-135 E6 Cretaceous India still joined to Africa, but other continents as now, although in different positions. Dinosaurs dominant. First adaptive radiation of birds. Grasses appear toward end of this period. Ends with the notorious Cretaceous-Tertiary extinction event. 70 E6
-65 E6 Tertiary (i. e. Paleogene and almost all Neogene) Great radiation of mammals and further reradiation of birds. Gradual cooling trend, retreat of shallow continental seas. 63 E6
-2 E6 Quaternary (i. e. very recent Neogene) See below. 2 E6

Note: The terms Tertiary and Quaternary are deprecated, and it is now recommended that the Cenozoic be divided into the Paleogene and Neogene instead.

See also: Timeline of the universe, Timeline of evolution, Geologic timescale, Paleontology

Outline of prehistory and history

The problem with technology-based chronological terms such as Bronze Age, Iron Age, etc., is that the phenomena involved have locations as well as periods. Thus the Anatolian Iron Age starts around the 13th or 12th century BCE but the Chinese Iron Age starts a few centuries later. (The particulars are disputed, and this is only an example. The point would be the same if the use of iron originated in China and spread to the west, or were independently discovered later in the west.)


See also: Logarithmic timeline, Orders of magnitude (time), Prehistory, History, Three-age system, Periodization, Archaeology, Historiography, History of the world

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