Timeline

Last Updated: January 24, 2007

Written 3/31/02


Approximate timeline is in years bjr, or before jrellis, the first of his kind

  • 15 billion bjr - the Big Bang or Plasma Universe (*21)
  • 15 billion bjr + (10**- 32) seconds - jr's universe expands to one light year across and doubles every (10**- 34) seconds (*9)
  • 15 billion bjr + 3 minutes - neutrons + protons form the 25% helium, remaining protons became the 75% hydrogen (*9)
  • 15 billion bjr + 10000 years - galaxies and stars form (*10)
  • 15 billion bjr + 300,000 years - inflationary period accounts for most of universe rate of expansion (*10)
  • 4.6 billion bjr - jr's solar system forms, Precambrian era (*2)
  • 4 billion bjr - earth cools enough for formation of primordial sea (*5)
  • 3.5 billion bjr - beginnings of life: algae and bacteria prokaryotes (*2)
  • 3 billion bjr - chlorophyll cells use carbon dioxide and begin giving off oxygen (*5)
  • 1.45 billion bjr - oxygen breathing eukaryotes take advantage of oxygen abundance (*2)
  • 1 billion bjr - eukaryotes and prokaryotes combine to form ancestor of all animals (*5)
  • 800 million bjr - multicellular animals (*2)
  • 600 million bjr - Paleozoic era, Cambrian period: invertebrates, shell- bearing animals (*5)
  • 500 million bjr - Paleozoic era, Ordovician epoch: vertebrates, armored fish without jaws (*5)
  • 440 million bjr - Paleozoic era, Silurian period: land plants, fish with jaws (*5)
  • 400 million bjr - Paleozoic era, Devonian period: forests, amphibians, bony fish (*5)
  • 350 million bjr - Paleozoic era, carboniferous period: coniferous trees, reptiles, insects (*5)
  • 270 million bjr - Paleozoic era, Permian period (*5)
  • 225 million bjr - Mesozoic era, Triassic period: dinosaurs (*5)
  • 200 million bjr - mammals (*2)
  • 180 million bjr - Mesozoic era, Jurassic period; first birds (*5)
  • 135 million bjr - Mesozoic era, cretaceous period: flowering plants (*5)
  • 100 million bjr - birds (*2)
  • 100 million bjr - termites, ants, wasps, bees (*5)
  • 70 million bjr - dinosaurs die out (*2)
  • 70 million bjr - Cenozoic era, tertiary period, Paleocene (*5)
  • 65 million bjr - first primates; rat like prosimians (*2)
  • 60 million bjr - Cenozoic era, tertiary period, Eocene epoch (*5)
  • 40 million bjr - Cenozoic era, tertiary period, Oligocene: monkeys (*5)
  • 33 million bjr - great apes in old world (*2)
  • 25 million bjr - Cenozoic era, tertiary period, Miocene epoch (*5)
  • 15 million bjr - gibbons (*2)
  • 13 million bjr - orangutans (*2)
  • 10 million bjr - first ice age forsworn by cooling (*1)
  • 10 million bjr - Cenozoic era, tertiary period, Pliocene epoch: manlike ape: ramapithecus (*5)
  • 9 million bjr - gorillas (*2)
  • 7 million bjr - missing link begins divergence of chimpanzees and humans (*2)
  • 5 million bjr - Australopithecus (*5)
  • 4 million bjr - primate walking upright (*2)
  • 3 million bjr - Lucy, Australopithecus Afarensis has 1/3 brain size of jrellis (*2)
  • 2.5 million bjr - hominid enters garden of eden (*1)
  • 2 million bjr - homo habilis, real humans with culture and stone tools (*2)
  • 2 million bjr - Cenozoic era, quaternary period, Pleistocene epoch (*5)
  • 1.7 million bjr - homo erectus, first true man hunted animals for food (*2)
  • 1.6 million bjr - Earliest evidence of human use of fire in Africa (*37)
  • 1.5 million bjr - Bob Brain concludes man controlled fire from evidence in Swartkrans Cave in South Africa (*38)
  • 1.4 million bjr - homo erectus controls fire (*2)
  • 1 million bjr - homo erectus spreads from Africa to Asia and europe (*2)
  • 700 K bjr - homo erectus learns to control and use fire (*5)
  • 600 K bjr - first of 4 last ice ages (*2)
  • 400 K bjr - homo sapiens develop in europe and western asia (*2)
  • 400 K bjr - man makes shelters from branches (*5)
  • 400 K bjr - man becomes addicted to cooked food (*4)
  • 300 K bjr - sheets of ice blankets europe in glaciers (*1)
  • 150 K bjr - homo sapiens neanderthalensis flourish with brains bigger than jr (*2)
  • 90 K bjr - first homo sapiens sapiens appeared (*2)
  • 40 K bjr - modern day homo sapiens (*2)
  • 35 K bjr - Cro Magnons in late Paleolithic (*2)
  • 35 K bjr - europe still in ice age, humans draw cave pictures of bull (*1)
  • 25 K bjr - 3.5 million people (*2)
  • 25 K bjr - Asians hunters cross Bering strait to populate Americas (*5)
  • 22 K bjr - cave decorations in France and Spain (*5)
  • 20 K bjr - needle for sewing (*5)
  • 20 K bjr - bow and arrow (*2)
  • 15 K bjr - beginning of end of ice age (*2)
  • 12 K bjr - Holocene era, Mesolithic middle stone age: bow and arrow (*5)
  • 10.5 K bjr - Holocene era, Neolithic new stone age: pottery in Japan (*5)
  • 10 K bjr - end of ice age (*1)
  • 10 K bjr - 5 million people alive to start cultivation of land for animal and plant farming in se asia (*2)
  • - - - - - years will now be those of modern western civilizations
  • 5000 bc - Holocene era, copper age: wheel (*5)
  • 5000 bc - trephination - hole cut in brain to treat seizers or headaches (*39)
  • 4000 bc - Mesopotamia rules from northwest Iraq to Persian gulf (*6)
  • 4000 bc - Chinese farming communities start with millet and pork (*6)
  • 3500 bc - settlers appear along Indus river valley in northwestern India (*6)
  • 3200 bc - first nation formed as lower and upper halves of egypt unite (*6)
  • 3200 bc - written language, mummies and olive oil (*1)
  • 3000 bc - Holocene era, bronze age: calendar, silk (*5)
  • 2700 bc - first crude pyramid burial of King Djoser (*6)
  • 2600 bc - pyramids of Khufu in egypt (*6)
  • 2200 bc - egypt in upheaval, pyramids raided (*6)
  • 2050 bc - egypt stabilized by 12th dynasty family from Thebes (*6)
  • 2000 bc - man cultivates rice in far east (*5)
  • 1800 bc - Palestine and Syria gain influence (*6)
  • 1790 bc - Babylon leader hammurabi restores law and order to Mesopotamia (*6)
  • 1730 bc - Hyksos come to power in egypt (*6)
  • 1650 bc - Israelites settle in the land of Goshen (*6)
  • 1600 bc - kamose of Thebes leads revolt to chase hyksos into Palestine (*6)
  • 1500 bc - canoes (*5)
  • 1500 bc - Aryans attack Mohenjo Daro in India (*6)
  • 1480 bc - hatshepsut succeeded by husband thutmose III, who extended egypt influence into asia (*6)
  • 1400 bc - Holocene era, iron age: Syrian alphabet (*5)
  • 1375 bc - Hittites reach height of power with horse drawn chariots(*6)
  • 1290 bc - Ramses II rules egypt in the last days of Egypt's power, as philistines gain (*6)
  • 1280 bc - children of Israel leave Egypt for promised land in Israel (*8)
  • 1269 bc - Hittites and Egyptians sign treaty (*6)
  • 1200 bc - Hittite civilization wiped out by Phrygians, who swept across turkey (*6)
  • 1100 bc - Egypt divided, as lack of iron deposits strains economy (*6)
  • 1000 bc - Hinduism in India (*6)
  • 950 bc - Libyan dynasty of kings (*6)
  • 930 bc - Israel established when Solomon dies (*6)
  • 720 bc - Ethiopian successfully invades Egypt (*6)
  • 715 bc - Assyrians completely conquer Israel (*6)
  • 700 bc - Syrian city states taken over by Assyrians (*6)
  • 700 bc - Rome founded (*5)
  • 600 bc - Hinduism spreads through India (*6)
  • 560 bc - Siddhartha Gautma, or Buddha is born
  • 586 bc - Babylonians destroy Jerusalem, Israelites scatter (*6)
  • 538 bc - Cyrus of Persia conquers Babylon and gives Jews freedom to return to Jerusalem (*6)
  • 525 bc - Persia conquers Egypt (*6)
  • 480 bc - Confucius dies, then Mo Tzu founds Mohism (*6)
  • 460 bc - Hippocrates is born, and died in 370 bc (*39)
  • 387 bc - Plato is born, and died in 335 bc (*39)
  • 323 bc - Alexander the Great takes control of Palestine from Persian empire (*6)
  • 300 bc - Euclid publishes 13 volumes of `Elements' (*3)
  • 213 bc - 2000 miles, 25000 towers, the great wall of China is completed (*6)
  • 100 bc - Buddhism reaches china (*6)
  • 73 bc - Spartacus leads unsuccessful revolt of slaves, hundreds crucified in final days of Roman republic (*8)
  • 31 bc - Egyptian end as world force as battle of Actium confirms Octavian head of Roman empire (*8)
  • 9 ad - Augustus defeated by Arminius, in his bid to unify Germany under Roman rule (*8)
  • 30 ad - Essene groomed Jesus of Nazareth crucified (*8)
  • 70 ad - temple at Jerusalem is destroyed again, Jews scatter (*8)
  • 220 ad - Chinese empire is split into three kingdoms (*6)
  • 350 ad - Kama Sutra published in India (*7)
  • 400 ad - start of collapse of Roman empire as Huns invaded (*1)
  • 1750 ad - world population at 700 million people (*2)
  • 1988 ad - world population at 5 billion people (*2)
  • 1913 ad - zipper produced as Gideon Sundbach remodels Judson's clasp-locker (*16)
  • 1913 ad - congress passes legislation to enable the Federal Reserve (*12)
  • 1913 ad - 16th Amendment to the Constitution gave the federal government the power to levy an income tax (*22)
  • 1916 ad - Einstein publishes general Theory of Relativity (*20)
  • 1948 ad - Velcro invented by George de Mestral? (*11)
  • 1945 ad - Hitler defeated after Germans kill 6 million Jewish citizens and more (*18)
  • 1948 ad - Balfour Declaration transfers part of Palestine back to Jews as British depart (*17)
  • 1963 ad - Kennedy assassination (*19)
  • 1967 ad - Robert William Kearns patents Windshield Wiper System with Intermittent Operation (*24)
  • 1967 ad - 6 day war in Middle East (*17)
  • 1979 ad - US President Carter negotiates Israeli Egypt peace treaty (*17)
  • 1986 ad - Neil Bush, George Bush's son, runs an S&L into the ground with impunity (*13)
  • 1986 ad - W. Bush and Enron become very profitable partners (*15)
  • 1991 ad - Rawtimes becomes a publication and support group in southern California (*36)
  • 1994 ad - Hussein and Rabin sign Israeli Jordan peace treaty
  • 1995 ad - Rawtimes becomes a web page on NIH server (*36)
  • 1997 ad - Monica Lewinsky blows president Clinton (*14)
  • 1998 ad - world population at 6 billion (*25)
  • 2001 ad - Moslem terrorists crash planes into New York World Trade Centers (*23)
  • today - the sun has burned half of its hydrogen, only having enough for 5 billion more years (*9)
  • today - the universe has expanded to 300 million light years across (*10)

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