History of the Earth timeline

By Haojia
  • 4600 BCE

    Birth of the sun

    around 4.6 billion years ago, the sun was formed when a cloud of dust and gas called a nebula collapsed under its own gravity. As it did, the cloud spun and flattened into a disk, with our sun forming at its center.
  • 4570 BCE

    Planetary accretion

    around 4.5 billions years ago, our Solar System was a disk of dust and gas in orbit sun. The solid materials collided with each other and accreted.
  • 4500 BCE

    Formation of the moon

    there's a theory is that there was a large object that hit the Earth and caused chunks of the Earth to fly off, but the chunks of Earth that flies off stayed in orbit, it then cools, and becomes like a sphere forming the moon.
  • 4400 BCE

    Planetary cooling

    planetary cooling cooled the planet. Asteroids, and Meteors helped formed the planet into a sphere. There were also volcano eruptions which contained magma . The magma then hardened which created Earth's outer core.
  • 3800 BCE

    End of Heavy bombardment

    Earth suffered constant threat from the failed planets, asteroids, falling and hitting Earth. but around 3.8 billions years ago, the giant planets moved to the outer planets which is probably the reason why the rocks, asteroids, failed planets stopped hitting Earth.
  • 150 BCE

    Earth's core formation

    around 1.5 billion years ago the Earth's core was formed, The inner core is Earth's deepest layer. It is a ball of solid iron which is surrounded by a liquid outer core.