circa 13,700,000,000 BCE — The Big Bang
The short version: in the beginning, there was nothing, which then exploded. The longer version: all the matter in the...
January 1, 2025
Barenaked Ladies
circa 4,540,000,000 BCE — The Earth gets cooler
In the early millenia of what is sometimes referred to as the Hadean era of the Earth, there were no...
December 27, 2024
circa 4,200,000,000 BCE — The Earth’s oceans form
The majestic oceans of planet Earth were formed neither quickly nor simply. It took literally millions of years between the...
December 22, 2024
circa 3,800,000,000 BCE — Autotrophic organisms evolve
The autotrophs are the first true organisms on the planet Earth. The very first of them, the first prokaryotic life...
December 17, 2024
circa 284,000,000 BCE — Bolosaurid Eudibamus is the first known biped
The earliest known bipedal vertebrate, eudibamus cursoris was a small parareptile. The sole specimen that has been found (in Thuringia,...
November 22, 2024
circa 65,500,000 BCE — The Cretaceous–Tertiary extinction event wipes out the dinosaurs
Everyone loves the dinosaurs. A lot of people – if the Jurassic Park films are to be believed – would...
October 24, 2024
September 4, 476 CE — The Roman Empire falls
The Roman Empire had been in decline for centuries by the time Odoacer deposed the child emperor Romulus Augustus in...
May 24, 2022
April 11, 1890 — Joseph Merrick, the Elephant Man, dies
Joseph Merrick (often incorrectly called John) was one of the most notoriously deformed human beings ever to live. Among other...
June 9, 2020
July 9, 1996 — LeAnn Rimes releases Blue
LeAnn Rimes didn’t exactly come from nowhere – by the time she released Blue in 1996, she’d been performing and...
January 19, 2014
September 13, 2006 — Pluto is demoted from planetary status
Originally discovered in 1930, Pluto was at that time classed as a planet, and named for the Roman god of...
May 14, 2013
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