Detailed logarithmic timeline
Time interval , before the present time Period Event , invention or historical development
55 y - 45 y 1965-1975 American Civil Rights Movement . Indonesian mass killings of 1965-1966 . Decolonisation , Space Race . Cultural Revolution ( 1966-76 ) . Six-Day War . 2001 ( film ) . Vietnam War , Counterculture . Sino-Soviet border conflict . First moon landing . Woodstock . Unix Bhola cyclone kills 500,000 , Bangladesh Liberation War . Yom Kippur War . Richard Nixon resigns
45 y - 35 y 1975-1985 Banqiao Dam and 61 other dams break in China . Khmer Rouge . Tangshan earthquake . Downfall of Gang of Four . Microcomputers , Jimmy Carter , Carl Sagan . Three Mile Island , Margaret Thatcher comes to power , Usenet . Eruption of Mount St. Helens . Pac-Man . CNN . MTV . AIDS discovered . First IBM PC . Beginning of presidency of Ronald Reagan . Falklands War . Black July pogrom against Tamils in Sri Lanka . Macintosh . Bhopal disaster . ,
35 y - 28 y 1985-1992 Soviet-Afghan War . Discovery of ozone hole . Challenger disaster . Chernobyl . First 80386 , Iran-Contra affair . BSE , perestroika , Black Monday , 1988 Burmese uprising . End of Iran-Iraq War , George H. W. Bush presidency . March 1989 geomagnetic storm cuts power in Quebec . Tiananmen protests . Communists lose power in Poland , fall of Berlin Wall . US invades Panama . Launch of Hubble Space Telescope . First Gulf War . AOL . Eruption of Mount Pinatubo . 1991 Soviet coup d'état attempt , End of USSR
28 y - 22 y 1992-1998 Black Wednesday attack on British pound . Beginning of Clinton presidency . First Pentium . Bosnian War . End of apartheid . 1994 Los Angeles earthquake . Rwandan massacre . Israeli-Jordanian Peace Treaty . Rising use of the Internet and the World Wide Web . Start of World Trade Organization . Kobe earthquake . Windows 95 , Java programming language . Rwanda invades Zaire - First Congo War . Tony Blair becomes PM of the UK . Asian financial crisis . Eritrean-Ethiopian War . Good Friday Agreement . Discovery of the acceleration of the universe . Beginning of Second Congo War
22 y - 18 y 1999-2002 Kosovo War . 1999 Izmit , Turkey earthquake . Beginning of Second Chechen War . Vladimir Putin president of Russia . end of Indonesian occupation of East Timor . Y2K scare . Human genome sequenced . Start of al-Aqsa Intifada ( Second Intifada ) . George W. Bush becomes president of US , Introduction of Wikipedia , 2001 Gujarat earthquake , Mac OS X , September 11 attacks , US invasion of Afghanistan , Windows XP
Past -- 55 years ago to 18 years ago
This timeline shows the whole history of the universe, the Earth, and mankind in one table. Each row is defined in years ago, that is, years before the present date, with the earliest times at the top of the chart. In each table cell on the right, references to events or notable people are given, more or less in chronological order within the cell. Each row corresponds to a change in log(time before present) of about 0.1 (using log base 10). The dividing points are taken from the R′′20 Renard numbers. Thus each row represent about 21% of the time from its beginning until the present. The table is divided into sections with subtitles. Note that each such section contains about 68% of all the time from the beginning of the section until now.