Index of stars

• 13.8 billion years ago, disconnection event
• 3.5 billion years ago, hues of cyan pigment
• 2.1 billion years ago, multicellular structures
• 890 million years ago, a modern ctenophore comb jelly
• 550 million years ago, personality
• 500 million years ago, hues of chlorophyll green pigment
• 430 million years ago, in search of lost time
• 178 million years ago, dreams
• 135 million years ago, angiosperm phylogenetic tree
• 320,000 years ago, hues of ochre pigment
• 100,000 years ago, hues of charcoal pigment
• 42,000 years ago, elements of music in 20 seconds
• 20,000 years ago, inner surfaces
• 8400 BCE, wool
• 4000 BCE, hues of indigo pigment
• 3000 BCE, Le Baiser marble by Auguste Rodin
• 1800 BCE, hues of hematite pigment
• 1400 BCE, Hurrian Hymn to Nikkal
• 700 BCE, quantum gods
• 400 BCE, connectedness and transience
• 375 BCE, limits to knowledge
• CE 900, Johann Sebastian Bach, Prelude and Fugue
• 1510, aesthetics of trees
• 1543, on the paucity of artistic milestones
• 1550, updating uncertainty in light of experience
• 1632, the basic principle of relativity
• 1761, imagining astronomical quantities
• 1792, women with pivotal roles in history
• 1826, Ludwig van Beethoven, String Quartet No. 14
• 1859, Salar de Atacama
• 1865, waves
• 1877, Paul Robeson, Ol’ Man River
• 1882, Three Gorges Dam
• 1913, Metropolis film by Fritz Lang
• 1915, relative time travel
• 1928, antibiotic resistance
• 1939, Auschwitz-Birkenau
• 1960, The Beatles, From Me To You
• 1972, Joni Mitchell, Big Yellow Taxi
• 1992, Joan Baez, Diamonds & Rust
• 2022, AI impacts
• Appendix, areas to scale

C.P. Doncaster, Timeline of the Human Condition