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13.8 billion years ago, disconnection event
3.5 billion years ago, shades of cyan
2.1 billion years ago, multicellular structures
1.64 billion years ago, endogenisation
890 million years ago, a modern comb jelly
635 million years ago, immortality
550 million years ago, personality
500 million years ago, shades of chlorophyll green
430 million years ago, memory
178 million years ago, dreams
135 million years ago, angiosperm phylogeny
320,000 years ago, shades of ochre
200,000 years ago, compassion
100,000 years ago, tones of charcoal
42,000 years ago, elements of music in 20 seconds
20,000 years ago, inner surfaces
11,700 years ago, ambient temperature history
8400 BCE, wool
5000 BCE, deceits and conceits
4000 BCE, shades of indigo
3000 BCE, Le Baiser marble by Auguste Rodin
1800 BCE, shades of hematite
1400 BCE, Hurrian Hymn to Nikkal
700 BCE, quantum gods
400 BCE, connectedness and transience
375 BCE, conscience, morality, remorse
375 BCE, limits to knowledge
CE 900, Johann Sebastian Bach, Prelude and Fugue
1100, love
1510, aesthetics of trees
1543, on the paucity of artistic milestones
1550, updating uncertainty in light of experience
1632, the basic principle of relativity
1665, universality
1761, imagining astronomical quantities
1792, women with pivotal roles in history
1826, Ludwig van Beethoven, String Quartet No. 14
1859, Salar de Atacama, Chile
1865, waves
1877, Paul Robeson, Ol’ Man River
1882, Three Gorges Dam, China
1913, Metropolis film by Fritz Lang
1915, relative time travel
1928, antibiotic resistance
1930, character and soul
1939, Auschwitz-Birkenau, Poland
1950, Wadi As-Sirhan Basin, Saudi Arabia
1955, perceived time
1960, The Beatles, From Me To You
1963, chaos
1972, Joni Mitchell, Big Yellow Taxi
1992, Joan Baez, Diamonds & Rust
2022, Kutupalong refugee camp, Bangladesh
2022, AI impacts
Appendix, areas to scale
C.P. Doncaster, Timeline of the Human Condition