Some events in the last 14 billion years

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• Big Bang: 13.8 billion years ago
• Formation of Milky Way Galaxy: 13.6 billion years ago
• Formation of Solar System: 4.6 billion years ago
• Formation of Earth: 4.5 billion years ago
• First Single-Celled Life: 3.5 billion years ago
• First Multicellular Life: 600 million years ago
• Cambrian Explosion: 541 million years ago
• First Land Plants: 470 million years ago
• First Dinosaurs: 230 million years ago
• First Mammals: 200 million years ago
• First Hominids: 7 million years ago
• Last Common Ancestor of Humans and Chimps: 6 million years ago
• First Humans (Genus Homo): 2.8 million years ago
• First Stone Tools: 2.6 million years ago
• Controlled Use of Fire: 1 million years ago
• Homo Sapiens: 300,000 years ago
• Cave Paintings: 40,000 years ago
• End of the Last Ice Age: ~12,000 years ago
• Agriculture: ~12,000 years ago
• First Temple (Göbekli Tepe): 11,600 years ago
• First Cities: 9,500 years ago
• Copper Age: 7,000 years ago
• Wheel: 6,500 years ago
• Bronze Age: 5,300 years ago
• Ancient Egypt: 5000 years ago
• First Writings (Sumerians): 5000 years ago
• Pyramids: 4,500 years ago
• Iron Age: 3,200 years ago
• Classical Greece: 2,500 to 2,400 years ago
• Hellenistic Period: 2,300 to 2,100 years ago
• Roman Republic: 2,500 to 2,100 years ago
• Roman Empire: 2,100 to 1,500 years ago
• Renaissance: 700 to 400 years ago
• Industrial Revolution: 300 to 50 years ago
• World War I: 1914 - 1918
• World War II: 1939 - 1945