Graphical timeline of our universe
This timeline of our universe shows the best scientific estimates of the occurrence of events since its origin, using the Big Bang theory.
<timeline> ImageSize = width:600 height:2000 PlotArea = left:200 right:350 bottom:45 top:45 AlignBars = early
Colors =
id:period1 value:rgb(1,1,0.7) # light yellow id:period2 value:rgb(0.7,0.7,1) # light blue id:events value:rgb(1,0.7,1) # light purple
Period = from:0 till:20000000000 TimeAxis = orientation:vertical ScaleMajor = unit:year increment:1000000000 start:0 ScaleMinor = unit:year increment:250000000 start:0
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bar:Timelines bar:Periods bar:Events
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width:20 mark:(line,red) textcolor:black
bar:Events color:events align:left shift:(15,0) at:0 text:"Origin of our universe (Big Bang theory)" from:100000000 till:400000000 shift:(15,3) text:"100-400 million years~Reionization, first stars began to shine" at:600000000 text:"600 million years~Formation of the first galaxies" at:8700000000 text:"8.7 billion years (5 billion years ago)~Formation of the Sun" at:9200000000 text:"9.2 billion years (4.5 billion years ago)~Formation of the Earth" at:10200000000 text:"10.2 billion years (3.5 billion years ago)~Emergence of life on Earth" from:13000000000 till:13100000000 text:"13.0-13.1 billion years (500-600 million years ago)~Evolution of multicellular life" at:13698000000 text:"13.7 billion years (2 million years ago)~Evolution of humans (genus Homo)" at:16700000000 text:"16.7 billion years~Collision of Milky Way and Andromeda galaxies" at:18700000000 text:"18.7 billion years~Sun becomes a red giant"
bar:Timelines align:right shift:(-75,0) from:0 till:300000 text:"Big Bang" from:13695000000 till:13700000000 text:Human evolution
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tabs:(210-left)
pos:(50,1995) text:"Timelines"^"Events" text:"---------"^"------"
</timeline>