BHP Timeline

Timeline created by AndreGrigorian04
In History
  • 130,800 BCE

    Big Bang

    13.8 Billion Years Ago
  • 130,600 BCE

    Stars Light Up

    13.6 billion years ago or 200 million years after the big bang.
  • 130,600 BCE

    New Chemical Element Form

    Third Threshold of increasing complexity.
    200 million years after the Big Bang or 13.6 billion years ago.
  • 30,770 BCE

    First Life Appears on Earth

    Almost 1 Billion years after the formation of the Earth, the first life organisms started to form, (generally microscopic organism) 3.77 bilion years ago.
  • 3,100 BCE

    Hominids Appear

    The first intelligent life forms appear that are the main ancestors of humans that formed 6 million years ago or 3100 BCE
  • Present Day

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    1,596 BCE

    René Descartes

    Rene Descartes was a French philosopher, mathematician, and scientist.
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    -276 BCE
    -194 BCE


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    Claudius Ptomely

    One of the earliest scientists in the scientific revolution that came up with the geocentric theory.
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    Feb 19, 1473
    May 24, 1543

    Nicolaus Copernicus

    Discovered the Heliocentric view.
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    Dec 14, 1546

    Tycho Brahe

    Tycho Brahe was a Danish nobleman, astronomer, and writer known for his astronomical observations.
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    Jan 22, 1561

    Francis Bacon

    Bacon was an english philosopher and statesman who served as Attorney General and as Lord Chancellor of England. His works are credited with developing the scientific method and remained influential through the scientific revolution. Bacon also played a major role in emperialism
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    Feb 15, 1564

    Galileo Galilei

    One of the most well known scientists who agreed with the Heliocentric theory and discovered some of Jupiter's and Saturn's moons.
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    Dec 27, 1571

    Johannes Kepler

    Johannes Kepler was a German astronomer, mathematician, and astrologer. He was best known for his laws of planetary motion, and his books Astronomia nova, Harmonices Mundi, and Epitome Astronomiae Copernicanae.
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    John Locke

    John Locke was an English philosopher and physician, best known as one of the most influential of Enlightenment thinkers.
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    Isaac Newton

    One of the most historical physicists, who created the famous laws of motion, which are still used in the modern day.
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    Marie Curie

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    Henrietta Leavitt

    Leavitt discovered how to date back stars using light.
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    Alfred Wegener

    Alfred Lothar Wegener was a famous German polar researcher, geophysicist and meteorologist. He was primarily known for his achievements in meteorology and as a pioneer of polar research.
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    Dmitri Mendeleev

    Best known for his discovery of the periodic table.
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    Edwin Hubble

    Discovered that our universe is expanding.
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    Harry Hammond Hess

    Harry Hammond Hess was a geologist and a United States Navy officer who used sonar detection in submarines. Considered one of the "founding fathers" of the unifying theory of plate tectonics.