The Whole History of the Earth and Life

1. The Origin of the Earth.

4.567 billion years ago : The formation of the Solar System.

4.56 billion years:ago : The formation of the Earth.

4.55 billion years ago : Giant impact.

2. Initiation of Plate Tectonics.

4.37-4.20 billion years ago : The formation of the atmosphere and ocean.

4.37-4.20 billion years ago : The initiation plate tectonics.

3. Birth of Proto-life.

4.10(4.20?) billion years ago : The birth of first proto-life.

4. The Initial Stage of Life.

4.37-4.20 billion years ago : The loss of the primordial continent and the generation of a strong geomagnetic field.

4.20 billion years ago : The emergence of sun-powered life.

4.10 billion tears ago : Mass extinction.

5. Second Stage of Evolution of Life.

2.90 billion years ago : The emergence of photosynthetic life.

2.70 billion years ago : Mantle overturn.

6. Third Stage of the Evolution of Life.

2.30 billion years ago : Mass extinction by snowball Earth.

2.10 billion years ago : From prokaryotes to eukaryotes.

7: The Dawn of the Cambrian Explosion.

1.90-0.80 billion years ago : The Formation of a Supercontinent.

700-600 million years ago : The Sturtian Glaciation

700-600 million years ago : The Leaking Earth.

8: The Cambrian Explosion.

640 million years ago : The Origin of Multicellular Life. The Marinoan Glaciation.

580 million years ago : Appearance of Ediacaran Fauna. The Gaskiers Glaciation.

550 million years ago : Evolution Responds to Environmental Changes

540 million years ago : The First Cambrian Organisms

9: The Paleozoic Era.

600 million years ago : Expanding Habitats.

540 million years ago : The Co-evolution of Planets and Insects 

550-540 million years ago : The Evolution of Vertebrates

260-250 million years ago : The Largest Mass extinction of the Phanerozoic Eon. Collision with a Dark nebula

10: From the Mesozoic to the birth of human beings.

Dispersion and amalgamation of continents, and the evolution of life.

The birth of primates.

11: The Humanozoic eon : the appearance of human beings and civilization.

Evolution into primates.

The birth of human beings, the fourth animal category : the Humanozoic eon.

10000 years ago : The Agricultural Revolution.

5000 years ago : The Urban Revolution.

2400 years ago : The Religious Revolution.

300 years ago : The Industrial Revolution.

The Information Revolution.

12: Future of Earth.

Challenges for Human society.

Future of Human society.

200 million years later : Formation of the supercontinent.

400 million years later : Extinction of the C4 plants.

1 billion years later : Cessation of plate tectonics.

1.5 billion years later : Disappearance of the ocean.

4.5 billion years later : Collision between the Milky Way Galaxy and the Andromeda Galaxy.

8 billion years later : Annihilation of the Earth.