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Timeline, milestones in evolution and history
13.8 bya, disconnection event
4 bya, geological periods
4 bya, creation and renewal
3.5 bya, shades of cyan
2.1 bya, multicellular structures
1.64 bya, endogenisation
890 mya, a modern comb jelly
635 mya, immortality
550 mya, personality
500 mya, shades of chlorophyll green
430 mya, memory
407 mya, communication
178 mya, dreams
135 mya, angiosperm phylogeny
44 mya, death and dying
2.8 mya, archaeological ages
320,000 ya, shades of ochre
200,000 ya, compassion
100,000 ya, tones of charcoal
42,000 ya, elements of music in 20 seconds
23,000 ya, The Levant
20,000 ya, inner surfaces
13,000 ya, dance
11,700 ya, ambient temperature history
9500 BCE, Fertile Crescent
9500 BCE, Anatolia
8400 BCE, wool
8000 BCE, Mesopotamia
5000 BCE, deceits and conceits
4000 BCE, shades of indigo
3000 BCE, Le Baiser marble by Auguste Rodin
2000 BCE, grief and solace
1800 BCE, shades of red 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, J. S. Bach, Prelude and Fugue
1100, love
1510, aesthetics of trees
1543, on the paucity of artistic milestones
1550, updating uncertainty
1632, the basic principle of relativity
1637, consciousness and humanity
1665, universality
1761, imagining astronomical quantities
1792, women with pivotal roles in history
1826, Beethoven, String Quartet No.14
1859, Salar de Atacama, Chile
1865, waves
1877, Paul Robeson, Ol’ Man River
1882, Three Gorges Dam, China
1912, joy
1913, Metropolis film by Fritz Lang
1915, relative time travel
1928, antibiotic resistance
1930, character and soul
1939, wartime
1950, Wadi As-Sirhan Basin, Saudi Arabia
1951, hate
1955, perceived time
1960, The Beatles, Let It Be
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