JT BLAIR and the EMPIRE of CRIME

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6.9 billion years from now - the Sun begins to pulsate every 100,000 years, ejecting more and more mass in each pulse, and finally throwing off all but the hot inner core, becoming a white dwarf.

6.8 billion years from now - the Sun runs out of helium and, too small to start fusing carbon and oxygen, enters a second red phase. It is 180 times bigger and 3000 times brighter than today.

6.7 billion years from now - the Sun starts fusing helium and shrinks back down to 10 times bigger and 40 times brighter than today.

6.5 billion years from now - the Sun becomes a full-fledged red giant, 170 times bigger and 2400 times brighter than today.

5.4 billion years from now - the Sun's core runs out of hydrogen, and it enters its first red giant phase, becoming 1.6 times bigger and 2.2 times brighter than today.

3.5 billion years from now - the Sun becomes 40% brighter than today. If the Earth is still orbiting the sun, its oceans evaporate.

3 billion years from now - the Andromeda Galaxy collides with our galaxy. Many solar systems are destroyed.

1.1 billion years from now - the Sun becomes 10% brighter than today. The Earth's atmosphere dries out.

750 million years from now - the Sagittarius dwarf galaxy makes its next pass through the Milky Way, and perhaps disintegrates.

250 million years from now - North and South America collide with Africa, forming a new supercontinent.

150 million years from now - Atlantic ocean begins to close.

50 million years from now - Africa collides with Europe, eliminating Mediterranean sea.

50,000 years from now - possible end of the Anthropocene Epoch, the period of warm climates caused by the rapid burning of fossil fuels.

Right Now - The Empire of Crime.

60 years ago - Invention of the computer.

130 years ago - Invention of the telephone.

180 years ago - Fossil fuel revolution: coal, trains.

540 years ago - Invention of the printing press.

5,500 years ago - Invention of the wheel, writing.

7,600 years ago - Sahara desert starts forming in northern Africa.

8,800 years ago - The first cities.

10,300 years ago - End of the most recent glacial period: the Wisconsin glaciation.

12,700 - 11,500 years ago - the Younger Dryas.

18,000 years ago - Cultivation of plants, herding of animals. Homo sapiens arrives in the Americas.

21,000 years ago - Last glacial maximum: ice sheets down to the Great Lakes, the mouth of the Rhine, and covering the British Isles.

32,000 years ago - Oldest known cave paintings.

35,000 years ago - Invention of the calendar, extinction of Homo neanderthalensis. Homo sapiens arrives in Europe.

50,000 years ago - Homo sapien arrives in central Asia.

70,000 years ago - Beginning of the most recent glacial period: the Wisconsin glaciation.

100,000 years ago - Homo sapiens arrives in the Middle East.

125,000 years ago - Beginning of the Eemian interglacial.

200,000 years ago - Beginning of the 2nd most recent glacial period: the Wolstonian glaciation.

250,000 years ago - First Homo sapiens.

350,000 years ago - First Homo neanderthalensis.

380,000 years ago - Beginning of the Hoxnian interglacial.

450,000 years ago - Beginning of the 3rd most recent glacial period: the Kansan glaciation, during which ice sheets reached their maximum extent in the Pleistocene, down to Kansas and Slovakia.

620,000 years ago - Beginning of the Cromerian interglacial.

1.4 million years ago - First firemaking by humans.

1.9 million years ago - First Homo erectus.

2.5 million years ago - First Homo habilis. Beginning of a period of repeated glaciation (loosely speaking, "ice ages").

3 million years - Cooling trend causes year-round ice to form at the North Pole.

3.9 million years ago - First known Australopithecus afarensis.

5 million years ago - Humans split off from other apes (gorillas and chimpanzees).

21 million years ago - Apes split off from other monkeys.

24 million years ago - Cooling trend causes the formation of grasslands; Antarctica becomes covered with ice.

34 million years ago - Gondwanaland finishes breaking up, with Australia and South America separating from Antarctica.

50 million years ago - India begins to collide with Asia, eventually forming the Himalayas.

67 million years ago - Asteroid hit Mexico, causing the Cretaceous-Tertiary extinction. End of dinosaurs. 50% of all species died out! Intensification of world cooling trend.

114 million years ago - First modern mammals. World begins to cool.

150 million years ago - First birds.

205 million years ago - Pangaea split into separate continents. The Triassic-Jurassic extinction. End of large amphibians and many reptiles.

235 million years ago - First dinosaurs, flowers.

251 million years ago - The Permian-Triassic extinction. 90% of all species died out.

313 million years ago - First reptiles.

365 million years ago - The Late Devonian extinction. 70% of marine species died out! First amphibians, trees.

395 million years ago - First insects on land.

415 million years ago - Formation of the Old Red Sandstone Continent at the beginning of the Devonian.

440 million years ago - The Ordovician-Silurian extinction. Most marine species died out.

670 million years ago - First animals.

800 million years ago - Snowball Earth - worst ice age in the Earth's history.

1.3 billion years ago - First plants.

1.6 billion years ago - First blue-green algae.

1.8 billion years ago - First purple bacteria; Earth's atmosphere gets oxygen.

3.8 - 4 billion years ago - The Late Heavy Bombardment: a period during which the Earth, Moon, Venus and Mars were subjected to many asteroid impacts, after a relatively calm period of several million years.

4 billion years ago - First life on Earth.

4.45 billion years ago - Formation of Earth complete; storm of asteroid impacts.

4.55 billion years ago - Formation of the Sun.

13.3 billion years ago - Reionization: the first stars heat and ionize hydrogen gas.

13.7 billion years ago - The Big Bang: beginning of the universe as we know it.