Quick Walk Through the 100 Events

FROM THE BIG BANG TO THE WORLD WIDE WEB™
The Origins of Everything

List of the Top 100 Events

01deepspace Time Scale 1
“FROM NOTHING TO EVERYTHING: THE ORIGINS OF THE UNIVERSE, THE SOLAR SYSTEM, EARTH, AND LIFE”
13.7 billion to 1 billion years ago
Event 1
“The Big Bang”
The Origins of Matter, Energy, Space, and Time
13.7 billion years ago		 The Big Bang
Event 2
“Great Balls of Fire”
The First Stars
13.5 billion years ago		 First Stars
Event 3
“Cosmic Alchemy”
The Creation of the Heavier Elements
13.4 billion years ago		 Supernova Heavier Elements
Event 4
“Spinning Wheels”
The First Galaxies
13 billion years ago		 01 004 001zmilkyway
Event 5
“Here Comes the Sun”
The Birth of the Solar System & the Earth
4.6 billion years ago		 Moon Formation
Event 6
“Earth, Wind and Fire”
The First Rocks, Oceans and Atmosphere
4.5 billion years ago		 An artist's construction of the formation of earth's continents
Event 7
“Just Add Water”
The Origins of Life
3.8 billion years ago		 DNA amolecule
Event 8
“The Great Rust”
The Addition of Oxygen to the Atmosphere and Oceans
3 billion years ago		 image of banded iron
Event 9
“Snowball Earth”
The First Ice Ages
2.2 billion years ago		 Snowball Earth
Event 10
“Kingdom of Beasts”
The Rise of Animals
1 billion years ago		 01 010 001zredcombjelly

 

Prehistoric Life Pageant Time Scale 2
“ALL CREATURES GREAT AND SMALL: THE CAMBRIAN EXPLOSION OF LIFE AND ITS AFTERSHOCKS”
1 billion to 100 million years ago
Event 11
“Movers and Shakers”
The First Definite Multicellular Animals
600 million years ago		 Edicarian animals scene
Event 12
“Animal House”
The Cambrian Explosion
543 million years ago		 burgess shale sea floor
Event 13
“In Search of the Lost Chordate”
Finding the Ancestor of Vertebrates(and Ourselves)
530 million years ago		 02 013 001pikaiascene100
Event 14
“Get a Backbone”
The Spread of the Vertebrates
525 million years ago		 02 014 001dunkleosteuscladoselache100
Event 15
“Get Out of the Pool”
Early Amphibians
360 million years ago		 02 015 001acanthostegaichthyostegascene100
Event 16
“Landlubbers”
The First Reptiles
315 million years ago		 02 016 001hylonomous100
Event 17
“The Great Dying”
The Permian Extinction
250 million years ago		 Late Permian Fauna from Russia100
Event 18
“Got Milk?”
Early Mammals and Dinosaurs
220-200 million years ago		 Ceratosaurus & Apatosaurus
Event 19
“Up, Up, and Away”
The Earliest Birds
145 million years ago		 Perching Archaeopteryx Scene
Event 20
“Flower Power”
The First Flowering Plants
125 million years ago		 First Flowering Plant

 

Cretaceous Impact Time Scale 3
“THE MEEK INHERITORS
[OR ONE EXTRATERRESTIAL IMPACT CAN RUIN YOUR WHOLE DAY]:
THE DINOSAUR EXTINCTION AND THE RISE OF MAMMALS”
100 million to 10 million years ago
Event 21
“Cretaceous Park”
The Later Dinosaurs
95-65 million years ago		 image of hadrosaur herds
Event 22
“One Extraterrestrial Impact Can Ruin Your Whole Day”
The Dinosaur Extinction
65 million years ago		 image tyrannosaurus in meteor shower
Event 23
“A Warm and Fuzzy Feeling”
The Mammalian Radiation
60 million years agos		 mammalian radiation graph
Event 24
“Orogenous Zone”
The Formation of the Himalayas
55 million years ago		 03 024 001himalayassubduction100
Event 25
“Of the First Order”
The Radiation of the Primates
55 million years ago		 darwinius fossil
Event 26
“The Land Down Under”
The Origin of Australia and its Animals
40 million years ago		 koala
Event 27
“Hey, Hey, We’re the Monkeys”
The Rise of Monkeys
35 million years ago		 aegyptopithecus
Event 28
“Grazing in the Grass”
The Spread of Grasslands And Grazing Animals
Beginning 25 million years ago		 grassland
Event 29
“The Sultans of Swing”
The Rise of Apes
23 million years ago		 dryopithecus
Event 30
“Father of Kong”
The Earliest Gorilla-Like Forms
10 million years ago		 chororapithecus

 

A. africanus skull Time Scale 4
“UPSTANDING APES:
THE RISE OF HOMINIDS, THE ROLE OF ROCK, AND FOOD FOR THOUGHT”
10 million to 1 million years ago
Event 31
“Branching Out”
The Last Shared Ancestor of Apes and Humans
7 million years ago		 sahelanthropus
Event 32
“Upstanding Apes”
The Earliest Bipedal Hominins
6 to 4 million years ago		 04 032 001ardipithecus100
Event 33
“I Am an Ape-Man”
The Earlier Australopithecines
4.0-2.5 million years ago		 Australopithecus afarensis
Event 34
“The Big Chill”
The Beginning of Climatic Cooling
3 to 2 million years ago		 climate cooling graph
Event 35
“Our Poor Cousins”
The Later Australopithecines and Their Extinction
2.6-1.0 million years ago		 Australopithecus boisei
Event 36
“The Role of Rock”
The Earliest Stone Tools
2.6 million years ago		 Gona Flake
Event 37
“I’m Your Handy Man”
The Emergence of the Genus Homo and Brain Expansion
1.9-1.5 million years ago		 Homo habilis, Olduvai
Event 38
“Bigger and Badder”
The Emergence of Homo Erectus
1.8 million years ago		 Homo erectus, Peking Man
Event 39
“Out of Africa”
The Earliest Eurasians
1.8 million years ago		 Dmanisi skull
Event 40
“Axes of Power”
The Invention of the Handaxe
1.76 million years ago		 Early hand axes

 

Homo heidelbergensis Time Scale 5
“BECOMING HUMAN (OR JUST ABOUT):
THE RISE OF HOMO SAPIENS AND OUR NEANDERTHAL COUSINS”
1 million to 100,000 years ago
Event 41
“Big Brains, Big Faces”
Homo heidelbergensis and Probably Language
500,000 to 250,000 years ago		 happisburgh
Event 42
“Fearful Symmetry”
Later Refined Handaxes
500,000 to 250,000 years ago		 laterhandaxe
Event 43
“Bring Out Your Dead”
The Origins of Ritual Behavior
400,000 years ago		 simahandaxe
Event 44
“Get the Point?”
The First Spears
400,000 years ago		 schoeningen spear
Event 45
“Chips Off the Old Block”
Prepared Core Technologies
300,000 years ago		 levallois prepared core flake
Event 46
“Light My Fire”
The Controlled Use of Fire
300,000 years ago		 fire use
Event 47
“Almost Human”
Neandertals and Nearly Modern Humans
Beginning 250,000 years ago		 neanderthal skull
Event 48
“Welcome To Middle Earth”
The Middle Palaeolithic
Beginning 250,000 years ago		 middle paleolithic tools
Event 49
“Seashells by The Seashore”
Intensive Exploitation of Seafoods
165,000 years ago		 neanderthals at gibraltar
Event 50
“A Modern Stone Age Family”
The Emergence of Homo Sapiens
160,000 years ago		 cromagnon

 

Lascaux horse Time Scale 6
“THE CREATIVE EXPLOSION:
THE RISE OF SYMBOLISM, LANGUAGE, RELIGION, ART, AND MUSIC”
100,000 to 10,000 years ago
Event 51
“Points of Conflict”
The Earliest Compound Tools & Points
100,000 years ago		 aterianpoints
Event 52
“Rest in Peace”
The First Burials
90,000 years ago		 homosapiensburial
Event 53
“Bling-Bling”
The First Personal Decoration
80,000 years ago		 shellbeads
Event 54
“A Roof Over Your Head”
The First Architecture
42,000 years ago		 early shelter structure
Event 55
“Blade Runners”
Upper Palaeolithic Blade Technologies
40,000 years ago		 blades
Event 56
“Brave New Worlds”
The Peopling of Australia and the Americas
40,000 to 12,000 years ago		 humanmigrationsmap
Event 57
“Express Yourself”
The First Representational Art & Music
35,000 years ago		 chauvet cave art
Event 58
“A Stitch in Time”
The First Needles and Sewing
25,000 years ago		 bone needles
Event 59
“Bend Me, Shape Me”
The First Pottery
16,000 years ago		 jomonpottery
Event 60
“Draw Back Your Bow”
The First Bow and Arrow
11,000 years ago		 holmegaardbow

 

Pyramids in Giza, Egypt Time Scale 7
“FROM FARM TO CITY:
THE NEOLITHIC AND URBAN REVOLUTIONS AND THEIR CONSEQUENCES”
10,000 to 1,000 years ago
Event 61
“Row, Row, Row Your Boat”
The First Boats
10,000 years ago		 Image of Wooden Boat
Event 62
“Down On the Farm”
The Neolithic Revolution
10,000 years ago		 Ground axe
Event 63
“Heavy Metal”
The Origins of Metallurgy
8,000 years ago		 early metallurgy
Event 64
“Easy Riders”
Ships and Horse Riding
6,000 to 5,000 years ago		 khufu ship
Event 65
“We Built This City”
Cities and Complex Societies
5,500 years ago		 ur war panel
Event 66
“Write This Down”
The Origins of Writing
5,500 years ago		 amarna letters
Event 67
“Big Wheels Keep on Turnin”
Wheeled Vehicles
5,000 years ago		 ur wheeled cart
Event 68
“Iron Man”
The Iron Age
3,500 years ago (1500 BC)		 iron artifacts india
Event 69
“Power to the People”
The First Democracy
2560 years ago (550 BC)		 roman senate
Event 70
“What’s Your Plan?”
Large-scale Urban Planning
2,210 years ago (200 BC)		 pont du gard

 

08galileotelescope100 Time Scale 8
“AGES OF ENLIGHTENMENT:
FOUNDATIONS OF THE MODERN WORLD
IN THE SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTIONS”
1,000 to 100 years ago
Event 71
“Fire And Brimstone”
The Rise of Firearms
Beginning 1300 AD		 chinese rocket
Event 72
“A Reawakening”
The Renaissance in the Western World
Beginning 1400 AD		 vitruvian man
Event 73
“Land Ho!”
Age of Exploration & Exploitation
Beginning 1400 AD		 colombus map
Event 74
“Hot Off the Presses”
The Printing Press and Movable Type
Beginning 1455 AD		 guttenberg bible, page
Event 75
“From Superstition to Science”
The Scientific Revolution
Beginning 1543 AD		 copernicus
Event 76
“All Fired Up”
The Industrial Revolution
Beginning 1760 AD		 industrial factory
Event 77
“Start Me Up”
Powered Modern Transport
Beginning 1802 AD		 steam locomotive engine
Event 78
“You Oughta Be in Pictures”
Photography and Cinematography
Beginning 1826 AD		 early box camera
Event 79
“From a Distance”
Long-Distance Communications
Beginning 1830 AD		 telegraph
Event 80
“Bright Lights, Big City”
Electric Light and Power
Beginning 1879 AD		 edison light bulb

 

09apollolunarlanding100 Time Scale 9
“MODERN TIMES:
THE LAST CENTURY, LAYING THE FOUNDATIONS OF THE WORLD WE LIVE IN”
100 to 10 years ago
Event 81
“It’s All Relative”
Relativity and Quantum Theory
Late 1800s, early 1900		 Albert Einstein
Event 82
“Rocket Man”
Rockets, Satellites, and Lunar Landings
Beginning 1926 AD		 Goddard rocket
Event 83
“You’re On the Air”
Television
Beginning 1935 AD		 Early TV
Event 84
“Bits and Bytes”
Computers, Transistors, Silicon Chips
Beginning 1937 AD		 Eniac Computer system
Event 85
“When You’re a Jet”
Jet Aircraft
1937 AD		 First turbojet plane
Event 86
“Miracle Drugs & Medical Devices”
Penicillin and Other Medical Advances
Beginning 1941 AD		 Penicillin in a petrie dish
Event 87
“The Genie Has Left the Bottle”
Dawn of the Atomic Age
1938 AD		 atomic bomb mushroom cloud
Event 88
“Cracking the Code”
DNA Structure & Genetic Engineering
Beginning 1953 AD		 dna molecule
Event 89
“Can You Hear Me Now?”
Advanced Telecommunications
Beginning 1973 AD		 Early mobile phone
Event 90
“Surf’s Up!”
The World Wide Web
Beginning 1989 AD		 A world wide web logo

 

10windpark100 Time Scale 10
“THE AGE OF CONNECTIONS:
THE PAST DECADE OF INNOVATIONS AND THEIR IMPLICATIONS”
The last 10 years
Event 91
“Where the Heck Are We?”
Widespread Use of GPS & Satellite Imaging		 gps satellite orbits
Event 92
“Ch-Ch-Ch-Ch-Changes, That Make the Strain…”
Overpopulation & Climate Change		 Population growthchart
Event 93
“Green Machines”
Alternative Energy		 Solar power plant
Event 94
“Who Are You?”
The Human Genome Project		 Human genome project
Event 95
“Closer Encounters”
Recent Advances in Astronomy		 Mars rover
Event 96
“Cellmates”
Stem Cell & Related Research		 human stemcells under a microscope
Event 97
“Keep Searchin”
Widespread Use of Search Engines		 search engine logos: Google, Yahoo, and Bing
Event 98
“Say Hello to My Little Friends”
The Rise of Nanotechnology		 Bucky ball
Event 99
“Here, There, and Everywhere…”
Instantaneous Communication & World-Wide Connections		 3D graphic rendering of internet network
Event 100
“Living for the Future”
The Idea of Sustainability		 Recycle

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