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4.56billion years before the present. |
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4.4 billion years before the present. |
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Oldest mineral grain found |
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4.1 billion years before the present. |
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Oldest piece of rock ever found |
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3.9 billion years before the present. |
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Oldest evidence of a continent |
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3.8 billion years before present. |
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3.5 billion years before present. |
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First fossils (algae and bacteria) |
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1.8 billion years before present. |
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1.1 billion years before present. |
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First fossil of a complex organism (a worm) |
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540 million years before present. |
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First abundant life found in the rock record |
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460 million years before present. |
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440 million years before present. |
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410 million years before present. |
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250 million years before present. |
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247 million years before present. |
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240 million years before present. |
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220 million years before present. |
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Break-up of sugar continent Pangaea begins |
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145million years before present. |
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65 million years before present. |
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Dinosaurs and other animals go extinct |
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30 million years before present. |
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Mammals/Flowering plants become abundant |
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5 million years before present. |
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1.8 million years before present. |
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first primate in genus homo |
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humans first inhabit North america |
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founding of jericho, the first known city |
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roman domination of the known world. |
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european rediscovery of the americas |
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Humans first explore the moon |
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