Of all the events I’ve classified as Dateless here – meaning that, for one reason or another, no way existed to date them accurately, this is the most peculiar. But the information does not seem to be anywhere on the web – even Microsoft’s own site does not record the release date of this,...
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1993 – Encarta is first published by Microsoft
circa 13,700,000,000 BCE – The Big Bang
The short version: in the beginning, there was nothing, which then exploded. The longer version: all the matter in the universe was compressed into the smallest possible volume. Try to understand that this is so much matter that the force of gravity warps the laws of physics as we know them. The whole thing...
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circa 65,500,000 BCE – The Cretaceous–Tertiary extinction event wipes out the dinosaurs
Everyone loves the dinosaurs. A lot of people – if the Jurassic Park films are to be believed – would like to see them come back. But without their extinction, we wouldn’t be here today. Even now, it’s still not clear what exactly caused the extinction event – but the best known hypothesis is...
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circa 2630 BCE – Imhotep designs and begins construction of the first Pyramid in Egypt
Imhotep was an Egyptian polymath who was what we would later call a Renaissance man. Of course, Imhotep had a 4000 year headstart on Leonardo. He served the Third Dynasty pharoah Djoser as vizier, although the complete list of his titles ran: Chancellor of the King of Egypt, Doctor, First in line after the...
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circa 4,200,000,000 BCE – The Earth’s oceans form
The majestic oceans of planet Earth were formed neither quickly nor simply. It took literally millions of years between the first surface water’s appearance and the creation of the primordial sea. Several factors contributed to this: the gradual cooling of the Earth was the first and most important, but also important was the slow...
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