1. The ENTIRE HISTORY of EVERYTHING
(Abridged)

2. Major Events: Formation of universe. About 10 - 16 BYBP
Formation of the Earth.                      About BYBP
Appearance of simple cells.                  About BYBP  (including cyanobacteria)
 Appearance of complex cells, including eukaryotic algae.                About BYBP
Appearance of sex.                               About BYBP

3. Major Events
Appearance of multicellular life including colonial Eukaryotic algae.  About 1BYBP
Cambrian explosion.             About 500 MYBP (= 0.5 BYBP)
 First land plants. (Simple mosses and relatives)                   About 450 MYBP
 First ferns and relatives                       About 380 MYBP
 First conifers                                     About 350 MYBP
Major extinction, end of Permian About 350 MYBP

4. Major Events First Angiosperms About 200 MYBP
Major extinction, end of Mesozoic  About 60 MYBP
Appearance of Homo Sapiens.          <  1 MYBP
Classes start, summer quarter, 2nd term July 26th 2004
See also here (timeline graphic).

5. Atmosphere and Continents:
At first: Hydrogen, (H2), Helium (He) N2 Methane (CH4) Ammonia (NH3). No oxygen.
Later organic compounds, then as life began to diversify, oxygen. Produced at first by photosynthetic cyanobacteria. Free oxygen was toxic to many species of early bacteria, this may have encouraged endosymbiosis.
The theory of plate tectonics has allowed scientists to reconstruct patterns of continental drift.

6. Ohio Geology Good record of Paleozoic and Ice age (Cenozoic)
Poor record of Mesozoic (unconformity)
Paleozoic sediments exposed with age increasing East > West.
Presence of up to 100 discernable cyclothems.
The oceans come in, the oceans go out. The mountains go up, the mountains come down. Animals and plants live, animals and plants die. Repeat.