Logarithmic timeline

For people who check facts

This logarithmic timeline, based on logarithmic scale, is able to show all history on one page in ten lines. In this chart, each row is defined in years ago, that is, years before the present date, with the most recent at the top of the chart.

A period corresponds to an epoch
An event is an occurrence of an observed or inferred process
Progress refers to civilisational advances, such as inventions and scientific discoveries; see Timeline of invention for more.
Regression indicates a problem or crisis that can be considered as the opposite of progress: having a retardative effect on the development of life or civilisation.

Years Ago Period Events Progress Regression
0-
10 1995-present: 1990s, 2000s See Logarithmic timeline of current events, GPS, DVD, Nanotechnology, Biotechnology more Nuclear war, Global warming, Environmental disaster
10-
100 1900-1995: 20th century Mass society, Communism, Car to spacecraft, Fusion power, Antibiotics, Electronics, more World wars, Nuclear war
100-
1k 1000-1900, Middle Ages
Renaissance, Industrialization Printing press, European colonization of the Americas>Americas, Industrial Revolution, more Plague, Famine
1k-
10k
8000 BC-AD 1000, Bronze Age, Iron Age Civilization, Pyramids, Jericho, Religion Cities, Writing, Wheel, more
10k-
100k Paleolithic, Holocene Neolithic Cave paintings Agriculture, Art, Dance, Tally stick Ice Age, Neanderthal>Neanderthal extinction
100k-
1M
Pleistocene 150K Human,
Fire, Language?, Magic and religion>Magic, Religion

1M-
10M
Pliocene, Stone Age ~2M Evolution of Homo sapiens,
Hunting - Gathering, tools

10M-
100M ~Tertiary Grasses
Cretaceous-Tertiary extinction event,
100M-
1B Paleozoic, Mesozoic Animals, Flowering plants ~252 mya Permian-Triassic extinction event
1B-
14B Precambrian Big Bang, Stars and galaxies, Life on Earth Mass extinctions

See also