Urantia Book Timeline

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Timeline Epocs:

• Before Time - Origins in infinity.
• Ancient History - From the earliest recorded date in The Urantia Book to 10 million years ago.
• Early History - From 10 million years ago to the birth of Jesus, 7 BC
• The Life of Jesus - From 7 BC to 30 AD
• Modern History - From 30 AD to the present
• The Future - From the present up to the stages of light and life.

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- Early History -

5,000,000 BC - The horse evolves as it now is and from North America migrates to all the world - (The Urantia Book, 61:4.5)
[Science note] - Scientists have determined that fossil evidence indicates that humanities upright stance began to evolve about 4 million BC.
[Science note] - A member of the Australopithecus afarensis left human-like footprints on volcanic ash in Laetoli, Kenya (Northern Tanzania), providing strong evidence of full-time bipedalism. Australopithecus afarensis lived between 3.9 and 2.9 million BC, and is considered one of the earliest hominins—those species that developed and comprised the lineage of Homo and Homo’s closest relatives after the split from the line of the chimpanzees.
[Science note] - In 2015 scientists reported the discovery of stone tools in Kenya that dated back to about 3.3 million BC, pushing back the previous record by some 700,000 years. Makers of the tools were contemporary with a species called either Kenyanthropus platyops or Australopithecus platyops.
[Science note] - In 1974. an international team at Hadar, Ethiopia, discovered a female skeleton in 3 million year old strata and named it Lucy. Subsequent finds there and at Laetoli, Tanzania, led to the naming of a new species: Australopithecus afarensis.
[Science note] - Geologists recognize that during the 2.5 million year span of the Pleistocene (2,588,000 to 11,700 years ago), numerous glacials, or significant advances of continental ice sheets in North America and Europe, have occurred at intervals of approximately 40,000-100,000 years. These long glacial periods were separated by more temperate and shorter interglacials. During interglacials, such as the present one, the climate warms and the tundra recedes polewards following the ice sheets. Forests return to areas that once supported tundra vegetation. Interglacials are identified on land or in shallow epicontinental seas by their paleontology. Floral and faunal remains of species pointing to temperate climate and indicating a specific age are used to identify particular interglacials. The interglacials and glacials coincide with cyclic changes in the Earth’s orbit. Three orbital variations contribute to interglacials. The first is a change in the Earth’s orbit around the sun, or eccentricity. The second is a shift in the tilt of the Earth’s axis, the obliquity. The third is precession, or wobbling motion of Earth’s axis.

2,050,000–35,000 BC - The Pleistocene ice age is the last completed geologic period - (The Urantia Book, 61:7.17)

2,000,000 BC - The first North American glacier starts its southern advance. The central ice sheet extends south as far as Kansas - (The Urantia Book, 61:5.5)

[Timeline comment] - Scientists acknowledge that there have been at least five major ice ages in the earth’s past. The most recent Ice Age (the last one) began about 1.8 million years ago and lasting until about 9,700 BC Glaciers have covered large parts of both the northern and southern hemispheres. Paleontologists surmise that the first human ancestors appeared between seven million and five million BC, probably when some apelike creatures in Africa began to walk habitually on two legs. They were flaking crude stone tools by 2.5 million BC They migrated from Africa into Asia and Europe around two million BC The Urantia Book explains that human beings originated in the Mesopotamian peninsula from animal ancestry virtually indistinguishable from human beings. Due to ice ages, glaciers, mountains and land areas rising and subsiding, ocean levels changing, rivers changing courses the migrations of human beings written in pre-history would have been erased any number of times. Evidence of humans living in the equitorial regions would be much more prevalent than those living in the areas of greater geologicval change. So, the combination of human-like animals evolving before the first true human beings coupled with the geologic evolution of the earth have served to cover up much of human history.
[Science note] - Fossils of a partial skull and two jawbones found in South Africa’s Turkana Basin in 2007 dated to about 1.78 million years BC and indicated that at least 3 species of early humans co-existed.
[Science note] - Homo erectus dates from 1.6 million BC and had a brain capacity of some 1,000 ml, compared with the current size of 1,400 ml. He was the first to control fire and to move out of Africa into Europe and Asia.

1,500,000 BC - The first great glacier is retreating northward. Enormous quantities of snow are falling on Greenland and on the northeastern part of North America, and this eastern ice mass begins to flow southward. This is the second invasion of the ice - (The Urantia Book, 61:5.6)
1,500,000 BC - The great event of this glacial period is the evolution of primitive man. Slightly to the west of India, on land now under water and among the offspring of Asiatic migrants of the older North American lemur types, the dawn mammals suddenly appear. These small animals walk mostly on their hind legs, and they possess large brains in proportion to their size and in comparison with the brains of other animals. In the seventieth generation of this order of life a new and higher group of animals suddenly differentiats. These new mid-mammals—almost twice the size and height of their ancestors and possessing proportionately increased brain power—had only well established themselves when the Primates, the third vital mutation, suddenly appeared. (At this same time, a retrograde development within the mid-mammal stock gave origin to the simian ancestry; and from that day to this the human branch has gone forward by progressive evolution, while the simian tribes have remained stationary or have actually retrogressed.) - (The Urantia Book, 61:6.1)
[Timeline comment] - Scientists say that control of fire by early humans was achieved about 1.5 million years BC in Homo ergaster. The Urantia Book indicates that the earliest humans evolved approximately 1 million BC , that before (and after) that event there were a number of animals with skeletons similar to, if not identical to, human skeletons and that the only accurate way to differentiate between animals and humans is in the development of brain and mental abilities providing a spiritual connection that ties human beings to spiritual reality. Humans share the connection to the first 5 adjutant mind spirits with higher animals but only humans connect to the sixth and seventh adjutant mind spirits, worship and wisdom.(UB 36:5.3) Therefore the "control of fire by early humans" was initially control of fire by human-like animals.
[Science note] - 1.2 million years BC homo antecessor may be a common ancestor of humans and Neanderthals. At present estimate, humans have approximately 20,000–25,000 genes and share 99% of their DNA with the now extinct Neanderthal and 95–99% of their DNA with their closest living evolutionary relative, the chimpanzees. The human variant of the FOXP2 gene (linked to the control of speech) has been found to be identical in Neanderthals.

1,012,000 BC - The origin of the dawn mammals. The first direct ancestors to human beings. After almost nine hundred generations of development, covering about twenty-one thousand years from the origin of the dawn mammals, the Primates suddenly give birth to two remarkable creatures, ancestors to the first true human beings. The dawn mammals, springing from the North American lemur type, give origin to the mid-mammals, and these mid-mammals in turn produce the superior Primates, who become the immediate ancestors of the primitive human race. The Primates tribes are the last vital link in the evolution of man, but in less than five thousand years not a single individual of these extraordinary tribes is left - (The Urantia Book, 62:4.6-7; 62:2.1)

1,000,000 BC - The Mesopotamian dawn mammals, the direct descendants of the North American lemur type of placental mammal, suddenly appear. The immediate ancestors of mankind make their appearance by three successive and sudden mutations stemming from early stock of the lemur type of placental mammal. The direct mammalian ancestry of mankind takes place in southwestern Asia, on the borders of the eastern regions lying between the then expanded Mediterranean Sea and the elevating mountainous regions of the Indian peninsula. These lands to the west of India establish the ancestry of the human race.- (The Urantia Book, 62:0.1 -2; 62:2.1)
1,000,000 BC - The light from the Andromeda nebula, visible to the naked eye, left those distant suns almost one million years ago. - (The Urantia Book, 15:4.7)
[Science note] - In 2007 Spanish researchers unearthed a human tooth more than one million years old, which they estimated to be the oldest human fossil remain ever discovered in western Europe.

991,485 BC - The birth of the first two human beings. A mutation within the stock of the progressing Primates suddenly produces twin primitive human beings, named Andon and Fonta, the actual ancestors of mankind - (The Urantia Book, 63:0.1)

991,474 BC - Urantia is registered as an inhabited world. Andon and Fonta were 11 years old.Biologic evolution has once again achieved the human levels of will dignity; man has arrived - (The Urantia Book, 61:6.2; 62:5.1; 62:7.7; 63:0.1)

991,472 BC - The first child of Andon and Fonta is born; they name him Sontad. Sontad is the first creature to be born on Urantia who is wrapped in protective coverings at the time of birth. Andon and Fonta had 19 children, almost half a hundred grandchildren and 6 great-grandchildren. The human race has begun. - (The Urantia Book, 63:3.1)

981,389 - 981,320 BC - Onagar. The achievements of this master mind and spiritual leader of the pre-Planetary Prince days is a thrilling recital of the organization of primitive peoples into a real society. He instituted an efficient tribal government - (The Urantia Book, 63:6.8)

950,000 BC - Migration of the descendants of Andon and Fonta, the Andonites. To the west they passed over Europe to France and England. To the east, as far as Java, where their bones are so recently found—the so-called Java man—and then journeyed on to Tasmania - (The Urantia Book, 64:1.6)

900,000 BC - Large numbers of inferior tribes are arriving in England from southern France. These tribes are so largely mixed with the forest apelike creatures that they are scarcely human. They have no religion but are crude flintworkers and can kindle fire. They are followed in Europe by a somewhat superior and prolific people, whose descendants soon spread over the entire continent from the ice in the north to the Alps and Mediterranean in the south. These are the Heidleberg race. - (The Urantia Book, 64:2.3)
900,000 BC - The arts of Andon and Fonta and the culture of Onagar are vanishing from the face of the earth; culture, religion, and even flintworking are at their lowest ebb - (The Urantia Book, 64:2.1)
900,000 BC - A superior group with more Andonic genetics, the Foxhall people, already existed in western England and continued to hold onto some of the traditions of Andon as well as some of Onagar’s culture. They were the ancestors of the Eskimos - (The Urantia Book, 64:2.1)
[Science note] - In 2009 scientists reported finding advanced hand axes made about 900,000 BC in southeastern Spain. Similar Acheulean type limestone tools, flaked on both edges, were at another site nearby and dated to 760,000 BC.

850,000–849,000 BC - The Badonan tribes begin a warfare of extermination directed against their inferior and animalistic neighbors. This campaign for the extermination of inferiors brings about a slight improvement in the hill tribes of that age. The mixed descendants of this improved Badonite stock appear as an apparently new people - the Neanderthal race - (The Urantia Book, 64:3.5)

850,000–350,000 BC - The Neanderthalers are excellent fighters, and they traveled extensively. They gradually spread from the highland centers in northwest India to France on the west, China on the east, and even down into northern Africa. They dominated the world until the times of the migration of the evolutionary races of color - (The Urantia Book, 64:4.1)

800,000 BC - The Neanderthalers are great hunters; game is abundant; many species of deer, as well as elephants and hippopotamuses roamed over Europe. Cattle are plentiful; horses and wolves are everywhere. - (The Urantia Book, 64:4.2)
[Science note] - In 1996 a team of fossil hunters reported finding 800,000 year-old hominids from the Gran Dolino site in the Atapuerca Mountains in northern Spain. The date was older by 300,000 years than any other human remains in Europe. They called the new species Homo antecessor. Among modern characteristics were a prominent brow line and multiple roots for premolar teeth, characteristics of early hominids.
[Science note] - Indonesian and Dutch archaeologist have presented evidence that early hominids in Asia made it to the island of Flores in the Javan archipelago by 800,000 BC.
[Science note] - Anthropologists believe that the ancestors of the Neanderthals and Denisovans left Africa as far back as 800,000 BC and replaced or interbred with descendants of Homo erectus.
[Science note] - In 2009 scientists reported finding advanced hand axes made about 760,000 BC in southeastern Spain.

750,000 BC - The fourth ice sheet is well on its way south. at its height it reaches to southern Illinois, displacing the Mississippi River 50 miles to the west, and in the east it extends as far south as the Ohio River and central Pennsylvania - (The Urantia Book, 61:7.2; 64:4.4)

700,000 BC - The fourth glacier, the greatest of all in Europe, is in recession; men and animals are returning north. The climate is cool and moist, and primitive humans again thrive in Europe and western Asia. Gradually the forests spread north over land which has been so recently covered by the glacier - (The Urantia Book, 64:4.6)
700,000 BC - In their hearts, Lucifer and his first assistant, Satan, begin to array themselves against the Universal Father and his then vicegerent Son, Michael (The Urantia Book, 53:2.1)
[Science note] - Three 5 foot tall homo heidelbergensis (700,000-200,000 BC) left footprints in powdery volcanic ash solidified in Italy. Homo heidelbergensis may be a common ancestor of humans and Neanderthals. It is morphologically very similar to Homo erectus but Homo heidelbergensis had a larger brain-case, about 93% the size of that of Homo sapiens. The holotype of the species was tall, 6 feet, and more muscular than modern humans.
[Science note] - In 2005 scientists said that 32 black flint artifacts, found in river sediments in Pakefield in eastern England, date back 700,000 years and represent the earliest unequivocal evidence of human presence north of the Alps.

650,000 BC - The continuation of the mild climate. By the middle of the interglacial period it has become so warm that the Alps are almost denuded of ice and snow - (The Urantia Book, 64:4.8)

600,000 BC - Ice has reached its then northernmost point of retreat and, after a pause of a few thousand years, starts south again on its fifth excursion. - (The Urantia Book, 64:4.9)
[Science note] - Homo heidelbergensis lived in Africa, Europe and western Asia between 600,000-200,000 BC It was a very large hominin that developed a more advanced complement of cutting tools and may have hunted big game such as horses.

550,000 BC - The advancing glacier again pushes men and animals south. This time there is a wide belt of land stretching northeast into Asia and lying between the ice sheet and the then greatly expanded Black Sea extension of the Mediterranean. These times of the fourth and fifth glaciers provide the further spread of the crude culture of the Neanderthal races. For almost 250,000 years these primitive peoples drifted on, hunting and fighting, by spells improving in certain directions, but, on the whole, steadily retrogressing as compared with their superior Andonic ancestors - (The Urantia Book, 64:4.10-11)

500,000–400,000 BC - Spreading of the news of the arrival of the Prince’s staff. Much subsequent mythology grew out of the garbled legends of those early days when the Prince's staff were repersonalized as supermen - (The Urantia Book, 66:4.1)

500,000–200,000 BC - Planetary civilization progressed in a fairly normal manner for almost 300,000 years. Urantia progressed very satisfactorily in its planetary career up to the times of the Lucifer rebellion and the concurrent Caligastia betrayal. All subsequent history has been definitely modified by this catastrophic blunder as well as by the later failure of Adam and Eve to fulfill their planetary mission. See the Dalamatian teachings and the Law of Dalamatia below - (The Urantia Book, 66:8.3)

500,000–35,914 BC - Van is left on Urantia until the time of Adam, remaining as titular head of all superhuman personalities functioning on the planet - (The Urantia Book, 67:6.4)

500,000 BC - The Badonan tribes of the northwestern highlands of India become involved in another great racial struggle, only about one hundred families are left. But these survivors are the most intelligent and desirable of all the then living descendants of Andon and Fonta. Among these highland Badonites a man and woman living in the northeastern part of the region begin suddenly to produce an unusual family. This is the Sangik family, the ancestors and origin of all of the six colored races. The Sangik children, 19 in number, are not only intelligent above their fellows, but their skins manifested a unique tendency to turn various colors upon exposure to sunlight. Among these nineteen children are five red, two orange, four yellow, two green, four blue, and two indigo. These colors became more pronounced as the children grow older, and when these youths later mated with their fellow tribesmen, all of their offspring tended toward the skin color of the Sangik parent - (The Urantia Book, 64:5.1 -3; 61:7.4) Concurrent with the appearance of the 6 colored or Sangik races, Caligastia, the Planetary Prince, arrives on Urantia with his staff of 100. The staff of 100 is repersonalized on Urantia by a technique of the Life Carriers and a commission from the local universe of Avalon whereby a portion of human living material is transferred to the constructed bodies of the Jerusem volunteers. The 100 modified human donors became the personal attendants of the staff and both staff and attendants have the potential of immortality - (The Urantia Book, 66:2.7; 66:3.15)
500,000 BC - There are almost 500,000,000 primitive human beings on earth at this time, and they are well scattered over Europe, Asia, and Africa. The Prince's headquarters, the walled city of Dalamatia, established in Mesopotamia, is at about the center of world population. The Law of Dalamatia: 1. You shall not fear nor serve any God but the Father of all. 2. You shall not disobey the Father's Son, the world's ruler, nor show disrespect to his superhuman associates. 3. You shall not speak a lie when called before the judges of the people. 4. You shall not kill men, women, or children. 5. You shall not steal your neighbor's goods or cattle. 6. You shall not touch your friend's wife. 7. You shall not show disrespect to your parents or to the elders of the tribe. This was the law of Dalamatia for almost 300,000 years. And many of the stones on which this law was inscribed now lie beneath the waters off the shores of Mesopotamia and Persia. The Dalamatian teachings. The true concept of the First Source and Center was first promulgated by the one hundred members of Prince Caligastia's staff. This expanding revelation of Deity went on for more than three hundred thousand years until it was suddenly terminated by the planetary secession and the disruption of the teaching regime. Except for the work of Van, the influence of the Dalamatian revelation was practically lost to the whole world. Even the Nodites had forgotten this truth by the time of Adam's arrival - (The Urantia Book, 61:7.4; 66:0.1-2; 66:3.1; 66:7.9 -16; 92:4.5)
500,000 BC - The fifth advance of the ice - (The Urantia Book, 61:7.4)
500,000 BC - The Union of Days on Salvington is aware that all is not at peace in Lucifer's mind - (The Urantia Book, 53:2.3)
[Science note] - 500,000 BC is considered by anthropologists to be the time of divergence of Neanderthal and Denisovan lineages from a common ancestor.

499,967 - 450,000 BC - Origin of the primary midwayers. During the 33rd year in Dalamatia, number two and number seven of the Danite group discovered a phenomenon that proved to be the origin of the first of the primary midway creatures. The original corps consisted of 50,000 primary midwayers. A period of one-half year intervened between the production of each midwayer, and when 1000 such beings were born to each couple, no more were ever forthcoming - (The Urantia Book, 66:4.10; 77:1.5)
[Science note] - Homo erectus occupied the Longushan cave (China). The bones, found in the 1920s-1930s were dated about 400,000 BC and were popularly referred to as Peking Man.
[Science note] - In 2010 a Tel Aviv University team excavating Qesem cave in central Israel said teeth found in the cave are about 400,000 years old and resemble those of other remains of modern man, known scientifically as Homo sapiens. The earliest Homo sapiens remains found until now are half as old.
[Science note] - Scientists in 2013 reported mitochondrial DNA results from a Human thighbone found in Spain estimated to be 400,000 years old. The DNA showed a closer relation to Denisovans who lived in Siberia than to Neanderthals.

350,000 BC - The green race experienced a great revival of culture under the leadership of Fantad - (The Urantia Book, 64:6.17)

300,000 BC - Porshunta. The leader of the orange race, the master mind who ministered to them when their headquarters was at Armageddon - (The Urantia Book, 64:6.12)
300,000 BC - The main body of the yellow race entered China from the south as coastwise migrants - (The Urantia Book, 79:5.3)

250,000 BC - The sixth and last glaciation begins. This is the period of greatest snow deposition on the northern ice fields - (The Urantia Book, 61:7.6)
[Science note] - The hypothetical man Y-chromosomal Adam is estimated to have lived in East Africa about 250,000 BC He would be the most recent common ancestor from whom all male human Y chromosomes are descended.

200,000–199,993 BC - The crucial years of the Caligastia rebellion. - (The Urantia Book, 67:3.6)

200,000–199,050 BC - Great confusion reigns in Dalamatia. The complete and radical reorganization of the whole world is attempted; revolution displaced evolution as the policy of cultural advancement and racial improvement. Liberty is quickly translated into license by the half-evolved primitive people of those days - (The Urantia Book, 67:5.1)

200,000–199,000 BC - Within 1000 years after the rebellion Van has more than 350 advanced groups scattered abroad in the world. These outposts of civilization consisted largely of the descendants of the loyal Andonites slightly admixed with the Sangik races, particularly the blue men, and with the Nodites - (The Urantia Book, 67:6.6)

200,000 BC - 30 AD - The rebel forces of Lucifer are allowed to run a free course. The postrebellion era witnessed many unusual happenings. A great civilization—the culture of Dalamatia—was disintegrating. "The Nephilim (Nodites) were on earth in those days, and when these sons of the gods went in to the daughters of men and they bore to them, their children were the 'mighty men of old,' the 'men of renown."' While hardly "sons of the gods," Caligastia's staff and their early descendants were so regarded in those distant days; even their stature came to be magnified by tradition. This is the origin of the well-nigh universal folk tales and legends of the gods who came down to earth and there with the daughters of men begot an ancient race of heroes - (The Urantia Book, 53:5.3; 77:2.3)

200,000 BC - Proclamation of the Lucifer manifesto and the start of the Lucifer rebellion and the consequential spiritual ban of Norlatiadek for all the worlds of Satania - (The Urantia Book, 61:7.8; 50:6.5; 53:4.1)
200,000 BC - Michael petitions the Ancients of Days for authority to intern all personalities concerned in the Lucifer rebellion - (The Urantia Book, 53:9.3)
200,000 BC - Satan, Lucifer's assistant, makes one of his periodic inspection calls. He was, and still is, a Lanonandek Son of great brilliance. - (The Urantia Book, 67:1.1)
[Science note] - The hypothetical woman Mitochondrial Eve is estimated to have lived in East Africa between 200,000 and 99,000 BC.
[Science note] - Scientists believe that the Neanderthals and Homo Sapiens split from a common ancestor about 200,000 BC DNA research in 2008 indicated that shortly after this time Homo Sapiens split into 2 groups. Most people represented one group, while the bushmen of southern Africa represented the other.
[Science note] - In 2010 Israeli archaeologists found shards of flint scattered around a fire pit in a cave near Tel Aviv dating to about 200,000 BC They said the shards might be the world's oldest known disposable knives.
[Science note] - Anthropologists date the first appearance of homo sapiens in Africa at about 200,000 BC.

199,998 BC - It was over two years of system time from the beginning of the "war in heaven" until the installation of Lucifer's successor - (The Urantia Book, 53:7.12)

199,838 BC - (162 years after the outbreak of the Caligastia's rebellion) A tidal wave swept up over Dalamatia, and the planetary headquarters sank beneath the waters of the sea, and this land did not again emerge until almost every vestige of the noble culture of those splendid ages had been obliterated - (The Urantia Book, 67:5.4)
[Science note] - Anthropologists date the oldest homo sapiens fossil, from Omo, Ethiopia at about 195,000 BC.

190,000 BC - Practically all the gains of the Prince's administration have been effaced; the races of the world are little better off than if this misguided Son had never come to Urantia. Only among the Nodites and the Amadonites is there persistence of the traditions of Dalamatia and the culture of the Planetary Prince. The pure-line Nodites are a magnificent race, but they gradually mingle with the evolutionary peoples of earth, and before long great deterioration has occurred. They have lost ground to the point where their average length of life is little more than that of the evolutionary races - (The Urantia Book, 73:1.2; 77:2.9)

180,000 BC - The Melchizedeks begin to teach that the good resulting from Lucifer's folly has come to equal the evil incurred - (The Urantia Book, 54:6.6)
[Science note] - In France Neanderthals created two stone rings in a cave in Bruniquel. The oval structures, measuring 172 and 25 square feet, were discovered in 1990 and dated to about 176,500 BC.
[Science note] - Anthropologists estimate that humans first start to wear clothing at about 170,000 BC.

150,000 BC - Earthly affairs are so disorganized and retarded that the human race has gained very little over the general evolutionary status existing at the time of Caligastia's arrival 350,000 years previously - (The Urantia Book, 67:7.3)
150,000 BC - The sixth and last glacier reached its farthest points of southern extension, the western ice sheet crossing just over the Canadian border; the central coming down into Kansas, Missouri, and Illinois; the eastern sheet advancing south and covering the greater portion of Pennsylvania and Ohio. This glacier sent forth many tongues, or ice lobes, which carved out the present- day lakes, great and small. During its retreat the North American system of Great Lakes is produced. These bodies of water did, at different times, empty first into the Mississippi valley, then eastward into the Hudson valley, and finally by a northern route into the St. Lawrence 37,000 years ago. - (The Urantia Book, 61:7.9-10)
[Science note] - Geologists date the peak of the Eemian Stage interglacial period at about 125,000 BC.
[Science note] - Geologists determine that the Abbassia Pluvial in North Africa—the Sahara desert region—is wet and fertile at about 125,000 BC.

100,000 BC - End of the orange race. The last great struggle between the orange and the green men occurred in the region of the lower Nile valley in Egypt. This long-drawn-out battle was waged for almost one hundred years, and at its close very few of the orange race are left alive. The shattered remnants of these people are absorbed by the green and by the later arriving indigo races - (The Urantia Book, 64:6.13)
100,000 BC - Singlangton assumed the leadership of the yellow race and proclaimed the worship of the "One Truth." - (The Urantia Book, 64:6.15)
100,000 BC - The decimated tribes of the red race are fighting with their backs to the retreating ice of the last glacier, and when the land passage to the West, over the Bering isthmus, became passable, these tribes were not slow in forsaking the inhospitable shores of the Asiatic continent - (The Urantia Book, 79:5.6)

85,000 BC - The comparatively pure remnants of the red race go en masse from Asia to North America, and shortly thereafter the Bering land isthmus sank, thus isolating them. The red race occupies the Americas, having been driven out of Asia over 50,000 years before the arrival of Adam - (The Urantia Book, 78:1.6; 64:6.5)

83,000 BC - The last of the pure red men depart from Asia, but the long struggle left its genetic imprint upon the victorious yellow race. The northern Chinese peoples, together with the Andonite Siberians, assimilated much of the red stock and are in considerable measure benefited - (The Urantia Book, 79:5.6)
[Science note] - Discovery of small perforated seashell beads at Taforalt in Morocco. At about 82,000 BCthey are the earliest evidence of personal adornment

80,000 BC - Shortly after the red race entered northwestern North America, the freezing over of the north seas and the advance of local ice fields on Greenland drove the Eskimo descendants of the Urantia aborigines to seek a new home; and they are successful, safely crossing the narrow straits which then separate Greenland from the northeastern land masses of North America. They reach the continent about 2100 years after the red race arrived in Alaska. Subsequently some of the mixed stock of the blue race journeyed westward and amalgamated with the later-day Eskimos, and this union was slightly beneficial to the Eskimo tribes - (The Urantia Book, 64:7.18)
[Science note] - Discovery of the earliest example of abstract or symbolic art (abouot 70,000 BC) at the Blombos cave, South Africa—stones are engraved with grid or cross-hatch patterns.

65,000–64,004 BC - Onamonalonton, the leader and spiritual deliverer of the American red race revives their worship of the "Great Spirit." Onamonalonton maintained his headquarters among the great redwood trees of California. Many of his later descendants have come down to modern times among the Blackfoot Indians - (The Urantia Book, 64:6.7)
[Science note] - The bow and arrow first replace the spear thrower in Africa in about 64,000 BC.
[Science note] - Discovery of the earliest needle made and used by Denisovans about 50,000 BC.
[Science note] - Scientists determine that the Sahara desert region was wet and fertile about 50,000-30,000 BC.
[Science note] - Anthropologists date the Chatelperronian culture in France at about 45,000–40,000 BC.
[Science note] - Anthropologists date the Cro-Magnon colonization of Europe at about 43,000-41,000 BC.
[Science note] - Home sapiens populations were living in Italy by about 41,000 BC.

40,000 BC - The Melchizedek receivers and the Life Carriers petitioned the Most Highs of Edentia asking that Urantia be inspected with a view to authorizing the dispatch of biologic uplifters, a Material Son and Daughter, Adam and Eve - (The Urantia Book, 73:0.1)
[Science note] - Anthropologists etermine that the independent Neanderthal lineage dies out between 40,000 and 25,000 BC.
[Science note] - Home sapiens in Germany were making flutes about 40,000 BC.
[Science note] - Anthropologists determine that Cro-Magnon developed in Europe in about 40,000 BC.
[Science note] - Paleolithic flutes discovered in Germany are dated about 40,000 BC.
[Science note] - The earliest evidence of advanced deep sea fishing technology at the Jerimalai cave site in East Timor—demonstrates high-level maritime skills and by implication the technology needed to make ocean crossings to reach Australia and other islands, as they were catching and consuming large numbers of big deep sea fish such as tuna about 40,000 BC.
[Science note] - Home sapiens populations were living in England by about 39,500 BC.
[Science note] - Anthropologists determine that the Denisova hominin lives in the Altai Mountains about 39,000 BC.

38,000 BC - present) - The ancient civilization of the yellow race has persisted down through the centuries. The civilization of the sons of Han comes the nearest of all to presenting an unbroken picture of continual progression right on down to the times of the twentieth century. The mechanical and religious developments of the white races have been of a high order, but they have never excelled the Chinese in family loyalty, group ethics, or personal morality - (The Urantia Book, 79:8.16)
[Science note] - Anthropologists date the first Aboriginal Australian settlements in Sydney, Perth and Melbourne at about 38,000-28,000 BC.
[Science note] - Anthropologists date the oldest known ritual cremation, the Mungo Lady, in Lake Mungo, Australia at about 38,000-18,000 BC.
[Science note] - Anthropologists date the extinction of Homo neanderthalensis at about 38,000 BC.
[Science note] - The oldest known figurative art. the zoomorphic Lowenmensch figurine, is dated by anthropologists to about 38,000 BC.
[Science note] - Anthropologists date the oldest known cave paintings. Red dots, hand stencils and animal figures in Altamira Cave, El Castillo, Spain at about 38,000 BC.

36,000 BC - Tabamantia, sovereign supervisor of the series of decimal or experimental worlds, comes to inspect the planet and, after his survey of racial progress, duly recommends that Urantia be granted Material Sons. At the time Adam was chosen to come to Urantia, he was employed, with his mate, in the trial-and-testing physical laboratories of Jerusem. For more than 15,000 years they have been directors of the division of experimental energy as applied to the modification of living forms. Long before this they had been teachers in the citizenship schools for new arrivals on Jerusem - (The Urantia Book, 73:0.3; 74:1.2)

35,997 BC - Eighty-three years before the arrival of Adam and Eve, Van and his associates devote themselves to the preparation of a garden home for their reception - (The Urantia Book, 73:2.2)

35,994 - 35,992 BC - Locating the Garden of Eden. The committee on location is absent for almost 3 years. It then reports favorably concerning three possible locations: The first is an island in the Persian Gulf; the second, the river location subsequently occupied as the second garden; the third, a long narrow peninsula—almost an island—projecting westward from the eastern shores of the Mediterranean Sea. The committee almost unanimously favored the third selection. This site is chosen, and two years are occupied in transferring the world's cultural headquarters, including the tree of life, to this Mediterranean peninsula - (The Urantia Book, 73:3.1 -2)

35,914 - 33,797 BC - The "golden age" is a myth, but Eden was a fact - (The Urantia Book, 74:8.14)

35,914 BC - Adam and Eve, a Material Son and Daughter of the local system, arrive midseason unannounced at high noon to begin the difficult task of attempting to untangle the confused affairs of a planet retarded by rebellion and resting under the ban of spiritual isolation. From the time of their arrival ten days passed before they are re-created in dual human form for presentation as the world's new rulers - (The Urantia Book, 74:0.1)
35,914 BC - Birth of Adamson, the first-born of the violet race of Urantia, followed by his sister and Eveson, the second son of Adam and Eve - (The Urantia Book, 74:6.2)

35,907 BC - The Melchizedek receivers remained on duty for almost seven years after Adam's arrival before turning the administration of world affairs over to him and returning to Jerusem.- (The Urantia Book, 74:5.1)

35,900 BC - Adam and Eve portrayed the concept of the Father of all to the evolutionary peoples. But by 2500 BC mankind has largely lost sight of the revelation sponsored in the days of Eden - (The Urantia Book, 92:4.6)
(When human beings first appeared on the planet up until this time, a span of approximately 964,000 years, human beings had black hair and dark or black irises. Skin color diversified with the advent of the Sangik races at about 500,000 BC, but it wasn't until the beginning of the infusion of Adamic genetics into the evolutionary DNA that hair and eye color began to exhibit significant color variations.)

35,800 BC - After more than one hundred years of effort on Urantia, Adam is able to see very little progress outside the Garden; the world at large does not seem to be improving much. The realization of race betterment appears to be a long way off, and the situation seems so desperate as to demand something for relief not embraced in the original plans. At least that is what often passes through Adam's mind, and he so expresses himself many times to Eve. Adam and his mate are loyal, but they are isolated from their kind, and they are sorely distressed by the sorry plight of their world - (The Urantia Book, 75:0.1)

35,797 BC - The default of Adam and Eve. For more than 5 years plans are secretly matured by Eve. At last they have developed to the point where she consents to have a secret conference with Cano, the most brilliant mind and active leader of the near-by colony of friendly Nodites. The Garden civilization was overthrown. Adam and Eve lived in the Garden for one hundred and seventeen years when, through the impatience of Eve and the errors of judgment of Adam, they presumed to turn aside from the ordained way, speedily bringing disaster upon themselves and ruinous retardation upon the developmental progression of all Urantia - (The Urantia Book, 75:3.7)

35,794 BC - Adamson sets out in search of the land of his youthful dreams, the highland home in the north of Van and Amadon ; he is 120 years old at this time and has been the father of 32 pure-line children of the first garden - (The Urantia Book, 77:5.2)

35,791 BC - Adamson's party finds the object of their adventure, and among these people he discovers Ratta, 20 years old, who claims to be the last pure-line descendant of the Prince's staff, the last of her race, having no living brothers or sisters. She heard the story of Eden, how the predictions of Van and Amadon have really come to pass, and the recital of the Garden default. In a little more than three months Adamson and Ratta are married. and become partents to 67 children and the parents and grandparents of almost 2,000 secondary midwayers - (The Urantia Book, 77:5.5)

35,790 BC - Michael selects Urantia as the theater for his final bestowal shortly after learning of the default of Adam and Eve - (The Urantia Book, 119:7.2)

35,786 BC - The second garden. It required almost a full year for the caravan of Adam to reach the Euphrates River. Finding it in flood tide, they remained camped on the plains west of the stream almost 6 weeks before they made their way across to the land between the rivers which became the second garden, situated east of the southern shore of the Caspian Sea near the Kopet Dagh - (The Urantia Book, 75:5.9; 77:5.10; 78:1.3; 76:1.1)
35,786 BC - Birth of Cain, the mortal son of Eve, and Sansa, the mortal daughter of Adam, were both born before the Adamic caravan had reached its destination between the rivers in Mesopotamia. Laotta, the mother of Sansa, perished at the birth of her daughter; Eve suffered much but survived, owing to superior strength. Eve took Sansa, the child of Laotta, to her bosom, and she was reared along with Cain. Sansa grew up to be a woman of great ability. She became the wife of Sargan, the chief of the northern blue races, and contributed to the advancement of the blue men of those times - (The Urantia Book, 76:0.2; 76:2.1)

35,785 - 5,800 BC - The second Eden is the cradle of civilization for almost 30,000 years. In Mesopotamia the Adamic peoples held forth, sending out their progeny to the ends of the earth, and as amalgamated with the Nodite and Sangik tribes, are known as the Andites. From this region went those men and women who initiated the doings of historic times, and who have so enormously accelerated cultural progress - (The Urantia Book, 78:0.1)

35,785 BC - Abel is born, the first child of Adam and Eve to be born in the second garden - (The Urantia Book, 76:2.1)
35,785 BC - Birth of Seth, the eldest son of Adam and Eve born in the second garden. Seth was absorbed in the work of improving the spiritual status of his father's people, becoming the head of the new priesthood of the second garden. His son, Enos, founded the new order of worship, and his grandson, Kenan, instituted the foreign missionary service to the surrounding tribes, near and far - (The Urantia Book, 76:3.4)

35,776 BC - Cain turned upon Abel in wrath and slew him - (The Urantia Book, 76:2.5)

35,700–29,000 BC - The Adamsonites maintained a high culture for almost 7,000 years from the times of Adamson and Ratta. Later on they became admixed with the neighboring Nodites and Andonites and are also included among the "mighty men of old." And some of the advances of that age persisted to become a latent part of the cultural potential which later blossomed into European civilization - (The Urantia Book, 77:5.9)

35,518 BC - Death of Adamson - (The Urantia Book, 77:5.7)

35,403 BC - Death of Eve. Eve died nineteen years prior to Adam of a weakened heart - (The Urantia Book, 76:5.5)

35,384 BC - Death of Adam. Adam lived for 530 years and died of old age - (The Urantia Book, 76:5.5.)

35,000–15,000 BC - The culture of the second garden persisted, but it experienced a steady decline until the regeneration of the Sethite priesthood and the leadership of Amosad inaugurated a brilliant era. The massive waves of civilization which later spread over Eurasia immediately followed the great renaissance of the Garden consequent upon the extensive union of the Adamites with the surrounding mixed Nodites to form the Andites.

35,000 BC - The termination of the great ice age excepting in the polar regions and corresponding to the beginning of the Holocene or postglacial period - (The Urantia Book, 61:7.18)
[Science note] - In 2008 archaeologists unearthed tools dating back at least 35,000 years in a rock shelter in Australia's remote northwest, making it one of the oldest archaeological finds in that part of the country.
[Science note] - In 2004 archaeologists of the University of Tuebingen said a 35,000 BC flute made from a woolly mammoth's ivory tusk had been unearthed in a German cave and pieced together from 31 fragments. In 2009 a flute from about this same time, made from vulture bone, was displayed.

33,000 BC - While the blue race pervaded the European continent, there are scores of other racial types. The European blue races are already a highly blended people carrying strains of both red and yellow, while on the Atlantic coastlands and in the regions of present-day Russia they have absorbed a considerable amount of Andonite blood and to the south are in contact with the Saharan peoples - (The Urantia Book, 80:3.2)
33,000 BC - Beginning of a steady improvement in human musical appreciation - (The Urantia Book, 44:1.5)
[Science note] - archaeologists unearthed tools dating back at least to 33,000 BC in a rock shelter in Australia's remote northwest, making it one of the oldest archaeological finds in that part of the country.

32,000 BC - Submergence of the Garden of Eden. After the garden was vacated by Adam, it was occupied variously by the Nodites, Cutites, and the Suntites. It later became the dwelling place of the northern Nodites who opposed co-operation with the Adamites. The peninsula had been overrun by these lower-grade Nodites for almost 4000 years after Adam left the Garden when, in connection with the violent activity of the surrounding volcanoes and the submergence of the Sicilian land bridge to Africa, the eastern floor of the Mediterranean Sea sank, carrying down beneath the waters the whole of the Edenic peninsula. Concomitant with this vast submergence the coast line of the eastern Mediterranean was greatly elevated. The sinking was not sudden, several hundred years being required completely to submerge the entire peninsula - (The Urantia Book, 73:7.1)
[Science note] - Dating of the oldest known domesticated dog skulls show that they existed in both Europe and Siberia by about 31,000 BC.

30,000–10,000 BC - Epoch-making racial mixtures are taking place throughout southwestern Asia. The highland inhabitants of Turkestan are a virile and vigorous people. To the northwest of India much of the culture of the days of Van persisted. Still to the north of these settlements the best of the early Andonites have been preserved. And both of these superior races of culture and character are absorbed by the northward-moving Adamites - (The Urantia Book, 78:3.4)
[Science note] - In 2010 scientists reported that genetic material, pulled from a pinky finger bone found in a Siberian cave dating to about 30,000 BC, showed a new and unknown type of pre-human being living about this time alongside modern humans and Neanderthals.

28,000 BC - Extinction of fandors, the passenger birds for humans - (The Urantia Book, 66:5.6)

27,000–2,000 BC - The heart of Eurasia is predominantly, though diminishingly, Andite. In the lowlands of Turkestan the Andites make the westward turning around the inland lakes into Europe, while from the highlands of this region they infiltrate eastward. Eastern Turkestan (Sinkiang) and, to a lesser extent, Tibet are the ancient gateways through which these peoples of Mesopotamia penetrated the mountains to the northern lands of the yellow race. The Andite infiltration of India proceeded from the Turkestan highlands into the Punjab and from the Iranian grazing lands through Baluchistan - (The Urantia Book, 79:1.1)
[Science note] - Anthropologists discover that New Guinea is populated by colonists from Asia or Australia in about 26,500 BC.
[Science note] - Anthropologists date the oldest known twisted rope at about 26,000 BC.
[Science note] - Anthropologists uncover the oldest known pottery—used to make figurines rather than cooking or storage vessels 26,000-22,000 BC.
[Science note] - Anthropologists determine that harpoons and saws were invented in Europe about 26,000-18,000 BC.

25,000–15,000 BC - Racial distributions, associated with extensive climatic changes, set the world stage for the inauguration of the Andite era of civilization - (The Urantia Book, 78:3.9)

25,000–5,000 BC - The highest mass civilization on Urantia is in central and northern China. The yellow race is first to achieve a racial solidarity—the first to attain a large-scale cultural, social, and political civilization - (The Urantia Book, 79:6.8)
[Science note] - Anthropologists determine that people around the world use fibers to make baby carriers, clothes, bags, baskets, and nets in 24,000 BC.

23,000 BC - As the purer elements of the Adamites penetrated northward, they became less and less Adamic until, by the times of their occupation of Turkestan, they became thoroughly mingled with the other races, particularly the Nodites. Very few of the pure-line violet peoples ever penetrated far into Europe or Asia - (The Urantia Book, 78:3.3)
23,000 BC - The earliest Andite peoples took origin in the regions adjacent to Mesopotamia and consisted of a blend of the Adamites and Nodites - (The Urantia Book, 78:4.2)
23,000 BC - Between the rivers of Mesopotamia in southwestern Asia there existed the potential of a great civilization, the possibility of the spread to the world of the ideas and ideals which were salvaged from the days of Dalamatia and the times of Eden - (The Urantia Book, 78:1.12)
23,000 BC - For almost 20,000 years the Andonites have been pushed farther and farther to the north of central Asia by the Andites - (The Urantia Book, 80:9.6)
[Science note] - 23,000 BC: a hamlet consisting of huts built of rocks and of mammoth bones is founded in what is now Dolni Vestonice in Moravia in the Czech Republic. This is the oldest human permanent settlement that has yet been found.
[Science note] - Researches in 2012 reported that DNA evidence has indicated the presence of foreign DNA indicating interbreeding about 20,000 BC between humans and an unknown sister species called “a Neanderthal sibling species in Africa.” Humans apparently shared the planet with this cousin species for over 150,000 years.

20,000 BC - The population of western India has already become tinged with the Adamic blood, and never in the history of Urantia did any one people combine so many different races. As it developed, the red race was destroying itself in the Americas, the blue race was disporting itself in Europe, and the early descendants of Adam (and most of the later ones) exhibited little desire to mingle with the darker colored peoples, whether in India, Africa, or elsewhere - (The Urantia Book, 79:2.3)
[Science note] - Evolution of light skin in Europeans is believed to have occurred 20,000-10,000 BC.

19,000 BC - The Adamites are a real nation numbering 4,500,000 and already they have poured forth millions of their offspring into the surrounding peoples - (The Urantia Book, 78:2.5)

18,000 BC - The ancestors of the Chinese have built up a dozen strong centers of primitive culture and learning, especially along the Yellow River and the Yangtze. These centers began to be reinforced by the arrival of a steady stream of improved blended peoples from Sinkiang and Tibet - (The Urantia Book, 79:6.5)
[Science note] - Oldest pottery storage/cooking vessels from China discovered by archaeologists, dated to 18,000 BC.

16,000 BC - A company of one hundred Sethite priests enters India and very nearly achieves the religious conquest of the western half of that polyglot people. Within 5,000 years, however, their doctrines of the Paradise Trinity has degenerated into the triune symbol of the fire god - (The Urantia Book, 79:3.4)

15,000–6,000 BC - The Andite migrations - (The Urantia Book, 78:3.9)

15,000 BC - Increasing population pressure throughout Turkestan and Iran provoke the first really extensive Andite movement toward India. For over fifteen centuries Andites poured in through the highlands of Baluchistan, spreading out over the valleys of the Indus and Ganges and slowly moving southward into the Deccan - (The Urantia Book, 79:2.4)
15,000 BC - The Chinese are aggressive militarists; they have not been weakened by an overreverence for the past, and numbering less than 12,000,000, they formed a compact body speaking a common language - (The Urantia Book, 79:6.9)
15,000 BC - As the period of the early Adamic migrations ends, there are already more descendants of Adam in Europe and central Asia than anywhere else in the world, even than in Mesopotamia. The European blue races have been largely infiltrated. Russia and Turkestan are occupied throughout their southern stretches by a great reservoir of the Adamites mixed with Nodites, Andonites, and red and yellow Sangiks. Southern Europe and the Mediterranean fringe are occupied by a mixed race of Andonite and Sangik peoples—orange, green, and indigo—with a sprinkling of the Adamite stock. Asia Minor and the central-eastern European lands are held by tribes that are predominantly Andonite - (The Urantia Book, 78:3.5)
15,000 BC - It is the great climatic and geologic changes in northern Africa and western Asia that terminate the early migrations of the Adamites, barring them from Europe by the expanded Mediterranean and diverting the stream of migration north and east into Turkestan. By the time of the completion of these land elevations and associated climatic changes civilization has settled down to a world-wide stalemate except for the cultural ferments and biologic reserves of the Andites still confined by mountains to the east in Asia and by the expanding forests in Europe to the west - (The Urantia Book, 81:1.2)
[Science note] - Anthropologists determine that the first colonization of North America began in 14,500-11,000 BC.

13,000 BC - The Andites, in considerable numbers, are traversing the pass of Ti Tao and spreading out over the upper valley of the Yellow River among the Chinese settlements of Kansu. They penetrated eastward to Honan, where the most progressive settlements are situated - (The Urantia Book, 79:7.1)
13,000 BC - The Alpine forests spread extensively. The European hunters are being driven to the river valleys and to the seashores by the same climatic changes that turn the world's happy hunting grounds into dry and barren deserts. These great and relatively sudden climatic modifications drive the races of Europe to change from open-space hunters to herders, and in some measure to fishers and tillers of the soil - (The Urantia Book, 80:3.8)
<>13,000 BC - Further biologic retrogression. During the previous hunting era the superior tribes intermarried with the higher types of war captives and unvaryingly destroyed those deemed inferior. As they establish settlements and engaged in agriculture and commerce, they begin to save many of the mediocre captives as slaves. The progeny of these slaves subsequently greatly deteriorate the whole Cro-Magnon type. This retrogression of culture continued until it received a fresh impetus from the east when the final and en masse invasion of the Mesopotamians swept over Europe, quickly absorbing the Cro-Magnon type and culture and initiating the civilization of the white races about 10,000 BC - (The Urantia Book, 80:3.9)
[Science note] - Paleontologists determine that the woolly rhinoceros goes extinct 13,000 BC.
[Science note] - The arliest supposed date for the domestication of the pig is 13,000-12,700 BC.
[Science note] - Scientists establish that the Humid Period begins in the North African region that would later become the Sahara. It is wet and fertile, and the aquifers are full. 12,800 BC.
[Science note] - In 2008 archaeologists found evidence from Monte Verde, Chile, indicating that a small band of people inhabited the area in 12,000 BC.

12,000 BC - The ancestors of the Japanese people are driven off the mainland, dislodged by a powerful southern-coastwise thrust of the northern Chinese tribes. Their final exodus is not so much due to population pressure as to the initiative of a chieftain whom they came to regard as a divine personage - (The Urantia Book, 79:6.3)
12,000 BC - The climatic destruction of the rich, open grassland hunting and grazing grounds of Turkestan compels the men of those regions to resort to new forms of industry and crude manufacturing. Some turn to the cultivation of domesticated flocks, others became agriculturists or collectors of water-borne food, but the higher type of Andite intellects chose to engage in trade and manufacture. It even becomes the custom for entire tribes to dedicate themselves to the development of a single industry. From the valley of the Nile to the Hindu Kush and from the Ganges to the Yellow River, the chief business of the superior tribes is the cultivation of the soil, with commerce as a side line - (The Urantia Book, 81:3.1)
12,000 BC - Three quarters of the Andite stock of the world is resident in northern and eastern Europe, and when the later and final exodus from Mesopotamia takes place, 65 per cent of these last waves of emigration enter Europe - (The Urantia Book, 78:5.4)
12,000 BC - A tribe of Andites migrates to Crete. This is the only island settled so early by such a superior group, and it is almost 2,000 years before the descendants of these mariners spread to the neighboring isles. This group is the narrow-headed, smaller-statured Andites who have intermarried with the Vanite division of the northern Nodites. They are all under 6 feet in height and have been literally driven off the mainland by their larger though inferior fellows. These emigrants to Crete are highly skilled in textiles, metals, pottery, plumbing, and the use of stone for building material. They engage in writing and carry on as herders and agriculturists - (The Urantia Book, 80:7.2)
12,000 BC - One hundred and thirty-two Andites (Dravidians and Aryans) embarked in a fleet of small boats from Japan, eventually reaching South America. By intermarriage with the natives of the Andes they established the ancestry of the later rulers of the Incas. The islands of the Polynesian group were more numerous and larger then than now, and these Andite sailors, together with some who followed them, biologically modified the native groups in transit. Many flourishing centers of civilization, such as Easter Island, grew up on these now submerged lands as a result of Andite penetration. But this group of 132 who navigated the Pacific were the only Andites to ever reach the mainland of the Americas. (The Urantia Book, 78:5.7)
[Science note] - The end of the last glacial period, climate warms, glaciers recede dated by geologists at 11,000-8,000 BC.
[Science note] - 11,000 BC: A major outbreak occurs on Lake Agassiz, which at the time could have been the size of the current Black Sea and the largest lake on Earth. Much of the lake drains into the Arctic Ocean through the Mackenzie river.

10,000 BC - Origin of the Greeks. Almost 2,000 years after the settlement of Crete a group of the tall descendants of Adamson make their way over the northern islands to Greece, coming almost directly from their highland home north of Mesopotamia. These progenitors of the Greeks were led westward by Sato, a direct descendant of Adamson and Ratta - (The Urantia Book, 80:7.3)
10,000 BC - A second attempt to erect the tower of Babel. The mixed races of the Andites (Nodites and Adamites) undertake to raise a new temple on the ruins of the first structure, but there is not sufficient support for the enterprise; it fell of its own pretentious weight - (The Urantia Book, 77:3.9)
10,000 BC - The Andites have been absorbed but the whole mass of the people have been markedly improved by this absorption - (The Urantia Book, 79:2.6)
10,000 BC - The blending of the Andite conquerors of India with the native stock eventually results in that mixed people called Dravidian. The earlier and purer Dravidians possessed a great capacity for cultural achievement, which is continuously weakened as their Andite inheritance becomes progressively attenuated. This composite stock immediately produced the most versatile civilization then on earth. - (The Urantia Book, 79:3.1)
10,000 BC - The Chinese people begin to build cities and engage in manufacture subsequent to the climatic changes in Turkestan and the arrival of the later Andite immigrants. The infusion of this new blood did not add so much to the civilization of the yellow race as it stimulated the further and rapid development of the latent tendencies of the superior Chinese people - (The Urantia Book, 79:7.5)
10,000 BC - Independent cities are dawning. These primitive trading and manufacturing cities are always surrounded by zones of agriculture and cattle raising. - (The Urantia Book, 81:3.3)
10,000 BC - For several thousand years cremation of the dead was almost universal throughout Scandinavia. This explains why remains of the earlier white races, although buried all over Europe, are not to be found—only their ashes in stone and clay urns. These white men also built dwellings; they never lived in caves. And again this explains why there is so little evidence of the white race's early culture, although the preceding Cro-Magnon type is well preserved where it has been securely sealed up in caves and grottoes. As it were, one day in northern Europe there was a primitive culture of the retrogressing Danubians and the blue race and the next that of a suddenly appearing and superior white race - (The Urantia Book, 80:9.4)
[Science note] - Archaeologists discover that Jericho has evidence of settlement dating back to 10,000 BC Jericho was a popular camping ground for Natufian hunter-gatherer groups, who left a scattering of crescent microlith tools behind them.
[Science note] - The earliest date scientists suggest for the domestication of the goat is 10,000 BC.
[Science note] - 10,000 BC: Geologists establish that land ice leaves Denmark and southern Sweden.
[Science note] - Excavations began at the Gobekli Tepe archaeological site in Turkey in 1994. The site already reveals 50 engraved stone monoliths, some of them dating back to 10,000 BC, that are at least 6,000 years older than Stonehenge and the Egyptian pyramids. A full excavation to the bottom of the site has not yet occurred, and only a small percentage of the site has been uncovered. The evidence suggests that the complex of round rooms with two especially large pillars in the middle were built for religious rather than practical purposes. Gobekli Tepe is widely acknowledged as one of the most important and mysterious archaeological sites in the world.

9,000 BC - The widespread use of metals is a feature of this era of the early industrial and trading cities. A bronze culture in Turkestan dates before 9000 BC, and the Andites early learned to work in iron, gold, and copper, as well. But conditions are very different away from the more advanced centers of civilization. There are no distinct periods, such as the Stone, Bronze, and Iron Ages; all three existed at the same time in different localities - (The Urantia Book, 81:3.4)
9,000 BC - For more than 7,000 years, down to the end of the Andite migrations, the religious status of the inhabitants of India is far above that of the world at large - (The Urantia Book, 79:3.5)
[Science note] - The earliest dates suggested for the domestication of the sheep by scientists is 9,000-7,000 BC.
[Science note] - Giant short-faced bears and giant ground sloths go extinct. Equidae goes extinct in North America. 9,000 BC.
[Science note] - 9,000–7,000 BC: Byblos appears to have been settled in approximately 8800-7000 BC Neolithic remains of some buildings can be observed at the site.
[Science note] - The earliest supposed date for the domestication of cattle is 8,500 BC.
[Science note] - An ancient Greek city on Ionia’s coast, Ephesus (Izmir Province, Turkey) was built in the 10th century BC on the site of the former Arzawan capital by Attic and Ionian Greek colonists. It was best known for its Temple of Artemis, one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, which was largely destroyed in 268 AD by the Goths.

8,000–6,000 BC - The last three waves of Andites poured out of Mesopotamia. These three great waves of culture are forced out of Mesopotamia by the pressure of the hill tribes to the east and the harassment of the plainsmen of the west. The migratory conquests of the Andites continue on down to their final dispersions. As they poured out of Mesopotamia, they continuously deplete the biologic reserves of their homelands while markedly strengthening the surrounding peoples. And to every nation to which they journeyed, they contributed humor, art, adventure, music, and manufacture. They are skillful domesticators of animals and expert agriculturists. Their presence usually improves the religious beliefs and moral practices of the older races. And so the culture of Mesopotamia quietly spread out over Europe, India, China, Northern Africa, and the Pacific Islands - (The Urantia Book, 78:6.1; 78:5.8)

8,000 BC - The slowly increasing aridity of the highland regions of central Asia begin to drive the Andites to the river bottoms and the seashores. This increasing drought not only drives them to the valleys of the Nile, Euphrates, Indus, and Yellow Rivers, but it produces a new development, a new class, the traders - (The Urantia Book, 79:1.3)
[Science note] - 8,000-7,000 BC: In northern Mesopotamia, now northern Iraq, cultivation of barley and wheat begins. At first they are used for beer, gruel, and soup, eventually for bread. In early agriculture at this time, the planting stick is used, but it is replaced by a primitive plow in subsequent centuries.
[Science note] - 8,000-6,000 BC: The Post Glacial Sea Level Rise decelerates, slowing the submersion of landmasses that had taken place over the previous 10,000 years.
[Science note] - In 8,000 BC the Quaternary extinction event, which has been ongoing since the mid-Pleistocene, concludes. Many of the ice age megafauna go extinct, including the megatherium, woolly rhinoceros, Irish elk, cave bear, cave lion, and the last of the sabre-toothed cats. The mammoth goes extinct in Eurasia and North America, but is preserved in small island populations until about 1,650 BC.
[Science note] - Neolithic Subpluvial in North Africa: The Sahara desert region supports a savanna-like environment. Lake Chad is larger than the current Caspian Sea. Anthropologists determine that an African culture develops across the current Sahel region in about 7,500-3,900 BC.
[Science note] - 7,500 BC: Earliest supposed date for the domestication of the cat.
[Science note] - Anthropologists determne the first human settlement in Amman, Jordan; 'Ain Ghazal Neolithic settlement was built spanning over an area of 15 hectares 7,200 BC.

7,000–6,000 BC - Ancestors to the Nordic races. The whole inhabited world, outside of China and the Euphrates region, has made very limited cultural progress for 10,000 years when the hard-riding Andite horsemen made their appearance in the sixth and seventh millenniums before Christ. As they moved westward across the Russian plains, absorbing the best of the blue race and exterminating the worst, they became blended into one people. These are the ancestors of the so-called Nordic races, the forefathers of the Scandinavian, German, and Anglo-Saxon peoples - (The Urantia Book, 80:4.5)

7,000 BC - The Dravidians are among the earliest peoples to build cities and to engage in an extensive export and import business, both by land and sea. Camel trains make regular trips to distant Mesopotamia; Dravidian shipping is pushing coastwise across the Arabian Sea to the Sumerian cities of the Persian Gulf and is venturing on the waters of the Bay of Bengal as far as the East Indies. An alphabet, together with the art of writing, is imported from Sumeria by these seafarers and merchants - (The Urantia Book, 79:3.7)
[Science note] - Jiahu culture began in China in 7,000 BC.
[Science note] - A sudden decrease of global temperatures, likely caused by the final collapse of the Laurentide ice sheet, leads to drier conditions in East Africa and Mesopotamia in 6,200–6,000 BC.

6,000 BC - The Sumerians. When the last Andite dispersion broke the biologic backbone of Mesopotamian civilization, a small minority of this superior race remained in their homeland near the mouths of the rivers. These are the Sumerians. They are largely Andite in extraction, though their culture is more exclusively Nodite in character, and they cling to the ancient traditions of Dalamatia. The Sumerians of the coastal regions are the last of the Andites in Mesopotamia. But the races of Mesopotamia are already thoroughly blended by this late date, as is evidenced by the skull types found in the graves of this era - (The Urantia Book, 78:8.1; 77:4.7)
6,000 BC - Sumerian Legends. The lingering traditions of ancient advanced civilizations, of paradises on earth, lent substance to the dream of a onetime "golden age" of the dawn of the races, helping confirm the belief that mankind had origin in a special creation in perfection. The elaborate records left by the Sumerians describe the site of one remarkable ancient settlement located on the Persian Gulf near the earlier city of Dilmun. The Egyptians called this city of ancient glory Dilmat. And archaeologists have found these ancient Sumerian clay tablets which tell of this earthly paradise "where the Gods first blessed mankind with the example of civilized and cultured life." These tablets, descriptive of the city of Dilmun which was initially established about 200,000 BC, are now silently resting on the dusty shelves of museums - (The Urantia Book, 77:4.8; 89:2.3)
[Science note] - Evidence of habitation at the current site of Aleppo dates to about 6,000 BC, although excavations at Tell Qaramel show the area was inhabited about 11,000 BC Carbon-14 dating at Tell Ramad, on the outskirts of Damascus, suggests that the site may have been occupied since the second half of the seventh millennium BC, possibly around 6,300 BC However, evidence of settlement in the wider Barada basin dating back to 9,000 BC exists.
[Science note] - 5,500 BC: Copper smelting in evidence in Plocnik and other locations.
[Science note] - 5,200–4,000 BC: Ghar Dalam phase on Malta. First farming settlements on the island.

5,000 BC - The evolving white races are dominant throughout all of northern Europe, including northern Germany, northern France, and the British Isles. Central Europe is for sometime controlled by the blue race and the round-headed Andonites. - (The Urantia Book, 80:5.8; 80:9.1)
5,000 BC - The three purest strains of Adam's descendants are in Sumeria, Northern Europe, and Greece. The whole of Mesopotamia is being slowly deteriorated by the stream of mixed races which filtered in from Arabia. And the coming of these inferior tribes contributed further to the scattering abroad of the biologic and cultural residue of the Andites - (The Urantia Book, 80:7.9)
5,000 BC - A host of progressive Mesopotamians moved out of the Euphrates valley and settled upon the island of Cyprus; this civilization is wiped out about 2,000 years subsequently by the barbarian hordes from the north - (The Urantia Book, 80:7.10)
5,000 BC - The Andites of Turkestan are the first peoples to extensively domesticate the horse, and this is another reason why their culture is for so long predominant. Mesopotamian, Turkestan, and Chinese farmers have begun the raising of sheep, goats, cows, camels, horses, fowls, and elephants. They employed as beasts of burden the ox, camel, horse, and yak - (The Urantia Book, 81:2.12)
5,000 BC - The horse is in general use throughout civilized and semicivilized lands. These later races not only have the domesticated horse but also various sorts of wagons and chariots. Ages before, the wheel has been used, but now vehicles so equipped became universally employed both in commerce and war - (The Urantia Book, 81:3.6)
5,000 BC - For thousands of years after the submergence of the first Eden the mountains about the eastern coast of the Mediterranean and those to the northwest and northeast of Mesopotamia continued to rise. This elevation of the highlands is greatly accelerated and this, together with greatly increased snowfall on the northern mountains, caused unprecedented floods each spring throughout the Euphrates valley. These spring floods grew increasingly worse so that eventually the inhabitants of the river regions are driven to the eastern highlands. For almost 1,000 years scores of cities are practically deserted because of these extensive deluges. With the later diminution of these floods, Ur became the center of the pottery industry. Ur is on the Persian Gulf, the river deposits having since built up the land to its present limits - (The Urantia Book, 78:7.2; 78:8.2)
5,000 BC - The reckoning of time by the 28 day month persisted long after the days of Adam. The Egyptians undertook to reform the calendar with great accuracy, introducing the year of 365 days - (The Urantia Book, 77:2.12)
[Science note] - 5,000 BC: late Neolithic civilizations, invention of the wheel and spread of proto-writing. The oldest golden treasure found in Varna Necropolis, Bulgaria.

4,000 BC - The Chinese are still keen students and aggressive in their pursuit of truth - (The Urantia Book, 79:6.11)
[Science note] - Civilizations develop in the Mesopotamia/Fertile crescent region (around the location of modern-day Iraq). Earliest supposed dates for the domestication of the horse and for the domestication of the chicken, 4,000 BC.
[Science note] - 3,900 BC: A rapid and intense aridification event, which likely started the current Sahara Desert dry phase and a population increase in the Nile Valley due to migrations from nearby regions.
[Science note] - Mass graves at Tell Brak in Syria, 3,800-3,600 BC.
[Science note] - Minoan culture begins on Crete, 3,700-3,600 BC.
[Science note] - Uruk period in Sumer. First evidence of mummification in Egypt, 3,600-3,500 BC.
[Science note] - 3,300 BC: Bronze Age begins in the Near East Newgrange is built in Ireland. Hakra Phase of the Indus Valley Civilization begins in the Indian Sub-continent.
[Science note] - 3,200 BC: Writing is invented in Sumer, triggering the beginning of history.
[Science note] - Surrounded by hundreds of nearby burial mounds, Stonehenge is a prehistoric monument in Wiltshire, England. archaeologists postulate that the site was built between 3,000-2,000 BC.

3,000 BC - A chance meeting occurred between an Indian tribe and a lone Eskimo group on the southeastern shores of Hudson Bay. These two tribes found it difficult to communicate with each other, but soon they intermarried with the result that these Eskimos were eventually absorbed by the more numerous red race. This represents the only contact of the North American red race with any other human race down to about 1,000 years ago, when white men first chanced to land on the Atlantic coast - (The Urantia Book, 64:7.19)
3,000 BC - It is a fallacy to presume to classify the white peoples as Nordic, Alpine, and Mediterranean. There has been altogether too much blending to permit such a grouping. At one time there is a fairly well-defined division of the white race into such classes, but widespread intermingling has since occurred, and it is no longer possible to identify these distinctions with any clarity. The ancient social groups are no more of one race than are the current inhabitants of North America - (The Urantia Book, 80:9.15)
3,000 BC - Increasing aridity drove the Andonites back into Turkestan. This Andonite push southward continued for over 1,000 years and, splitting around the Caspian and Black seas, penetrated Europe by way of both the Balkans and the Ukraine - (The Urantia Book, 80:9.6)
3,000 BC - Though making progress intellectually, the human races slowly lose ground spiritually. The concept of God has grown very hazy - (The Urantia Book, 93:1.1)
[Science note] - In 2008 a team of German and Peruvian archaeologists reported the discovery of a ceremonial plaza near Peru's north-central coast dating to 3,000 BC.
[Science note] - In Britain timber temples were constructed about 3,000 BC prior to stone circles. Remains of one was found in 1997 at Stanton Drew in Somerset that measured 443 feet on the outer diameter.
[Science note] - In 2009 archaeologists identified a site named "Bluehenge," dating to about 3,000 BC, about a mile away from Stonehenge. It was named after the color of the 27 Welsh stones that were laid to make up a path.
[Science note] - Archaeologists believe Egypt's large pyramids are the work of the Old Kingdom society that rose to prominence in the Nile Valley after 3,000 BC Historical analysis tells us that the Egyptians built the Giza Pyramids in a span of 85 years between 2,589-2,504 BC.
[Science note] - The Great Sphinx of Giza, Egypt, is a limestone statue of a reclining sphinx, a mythical creature with the body of a lion and the head of a human. Facing directly from West to East, it stands on the Giza Plateau on the west bank of the Nile in Giza. The face of the Sphinx is generally believed to represent the Pharaoh Khafre. It measures 238 feet long from paw to tail, 66.3 ft high from the base to the top of the head and 62.6 feet wide at its rear haunches. It is the oldest known monumental sculpture in Egypt and is commonly believed to have been built by ancient Egyptians of the Old Kingdom during the reign of the Pharaoh Khafre between 2,558–2,532 BC).

2,500–2,000 BC - The second Andite penetration of India is the Aryan invasion during a period of almost five hundred years in the middle of the third millennium before Christ. This migration marked the terminal exodus of the Andites from their homelands in Turkestan - (The Urantia Book, 79:4.1)

2,500 BC - The Sumerians suffered severe reverses at the hands of the northern Suites and Guites. Lagash, the Sumerian capital built on flood mounds, fell. Erech held out for thirty years after the fall of Akkad. By the time of the establishment of the rule of Hammurabi the Sumerians had become absorbed into the ranks of the northern Semites and the Mesopotamian Andites passed from the pages of history - (The Urantia Book, 78:8.10)
2,500 BC - The westward thrust of the Andonites reached Europe, And this overrunning of all Mesopotamia, Asia Minor, and the Danube basin by the barbarians of the hills of Turkestan constituted the most serious and lasting of all cultural setbacks up to that time. These invaders definitely Andonized the character of the central European races, which have ever since remained characteristically Alpine. The Mediterranean coastlands did not become permeated by the Andites until the times of these great nomadic invasions. Land traffic and trade are nearly suspended during these centuries when the nomads invade the eastern Mediterranean districts. This interference with land travel brought about the great expansion of sea traffic and trade; Mediterranean sea-borne commerce was in full swing. And this development of marine traffic resulted in the sudden expansion of the descendants of the Andites throughout the entire coastal territory of the Mediterranean basin - (The Urantia Book, 80:9.7; 80:9.9)
[Science note] - In 2015 British archaeologists said they had found the buried remains of a mysterious prehistoric monument close to the famous Stonehenge heritage site dating to about 2,500 BC The discovery was made at Durrington Walls -- a so-called "superhenge" located less than 1.8 miles from Stonehenge.
[Science note] - Egyptian archaeologists unveiled a 4,000-year-old "missing pyramid" that they believed to have been discovered by an archaeologist almost 200 years ago and never seen again. The pyramid was thought to have been built by King Menkauhor, an obscure pharaoh who ruled for only eight years. The style of the pyramid indicates it was from the Fifth Dynasty, a period that began in 2,465 BC and ended in 2,325 BC.

2,000–400 BC - Approximate times for events of the Old Testament. These dates are not provided by The Urantia Book; they're given here simply as a reference for the general time periods during which these historical events occurred: Abraham (2001 BC); Ishmael (1915 BC); Isaac (1901 BC); Jacob (1841 BC); Joseph (1750 BC); Exodus from Egypt (1290 BC); Samuel (1050 BC); Saul (1100 BC); David (1060 BC); Solomon (1020 BC); Jehoshaphat (919 BC); Period of minor prophets (Obadiah, Joel, Jonah) - (840-400 BC); Jonah (770 BC); Amos (760 BC); Hosea (760 BC); Isaiah (740 BC); Micah (737 BC); Hezekiah (726 BC); Hosea (722 BC); Josiah (640 BC); Habakkah (630 BC); Zephaniah (627 BC); Jeremiah (627 BC); Daniel (605 BC); Ezekiel (593 BC); Nahum (593 BC); Haggai (520 BC); Zechariah (520 BC); Joel (500 BC); Obadiah (500 BC); Malachi (433 BC)

2,000 BC - Special bestowal school established by the Melchizedeks on Edentia - (The Urantia Book, 43:1.6)
2,000 BC - Mount Sinai is intermittently active as a volcano, occasional eruptions occurring as late as the time of the sojourn of the Israelites in this region. The fire and smoke, together with the thunderous detonations associated with the eruptions of this volcano, all impressed and awed the Bedouins of the surrounding regions and caused them greatly to fear Yahweh. This spirit of Mount Horeb later became the god of the Hebrew Semites, and they eventually believed him to be supreme over all other gods - (The Urantia Book, 96:1.11)

1,980–1,886 BC - The bestowal of Machiventa Melchizedek. The proclamation of his mission is embodied in the simple statement which he made to a shepherd, "I am Melchizedek, priest of El Elyon, the Most High, the one and only God." Machiventa terminated his bestowal as a mortal being just as suddenly and unceremoniously as he had begun it. It was a great trial for Abraham when Melchizedek suddenly disappeared. Although he had fully warned his followers that he must sometime go as he had come, they were not reconciled to the loss of their leader - (The Urantia Book, 93:2.1 -2; 93:9.1; 93:10.2)
[Science note] - Palmyra (Syria) is an ancient Semitic city in present-day Homs Governorate, Syria. Archaeological finds date back to the Neolithic period, and the city was first documented in the early second millennium BC Palmyra changed hands on a number of occasions between different empires before becoming a subject of the Roman Empire in the first century AD.
[Science note] - Mycenae (Argolis, Greece), a Greek military stronghold, was considered one of ancient Greece’s most significant sites. The period of history from 1,600-1,100 BC is referred to as Mycenaean, in reference to the city.

1,500–1,400 BC - Melchizedek's Salem missionaries pass through Asia, spreading the doctrine of the Most High God and salvation through faith. The teachers commissioned by Melchizedek and his successors did not default in their trust; they did penetrate to all peoples of the Eurasian continent and China. At See Fuch, for more than one hundred years, the Salemites maintained their headquarters, there training Chinese teachers who taught throughout all the domains of the yellow race. During this period the Salem missionaries teach the concept of the one God to the Brahman caste of teacher-priests in India. This doctrine ran counter to the dogmas, traditions, and teachings of the Brahman priesthood. The Rig-Veda, one of the most ancient of sacred writings stems from this period as a refutation by the priesthood of the Melchizedek teachings - (The Urantia Book, 94:5.1, 94:1.5)
[Science note] - Founded in 1,400 BC, the Luxor Temple is a sandstone temple complex located in current-day Luxor, Egypt (known as Thebes in ancient times)

1,391 BC - Approximate time of the birth of Moses - (The Urantia Book, 92:5.8, 96:3.1), Wikipedia article
[Science note] - The Egyptian Supreme Council of Antiquities announced that archaeologists have unearthed the massive head of one Egypt's most famous pharaohs who ruled from 1387-1348 BC Amenhotep III, the grandfather of Tutankhamun, ruled at the height of Egypt's New Kingdom and presided over a vast empire stretching from Nubia in the south to Syria in the north.

1,300 BC - It was hard for the next generation to comprehend the story of Melchizedek; within five hundred years many regarded the whole narrative as a myth - (The Urantia Book, 93:9.5)

1079 BC - Saul, (1079-1007 BC), was, according to the Bible and Qur'an, the first king of the united Kingdom of Israel. The successor to his throne was his son-in-law David. (The Urantia Book, 97:9.4, Wikipedia article)

1040 BC - David, (1040-970 BC) The biblical King David of Israel is remembered for his youthful victory with a slingshot against the Philistine giant Goliath, later for his diverse skills as both a warrior and a writer of psalms. In his 40 years as ruler, between approximately 1010 and 970 BCE., he united the people of Israel, led them to victory in battle, conquered land and paved the way for his son, Solomon, to build the Holy Temple. ( AncientHistory, Wikipedia article, Jewish Library)
[Science note] - In 2008 Israeli archaeologists found a Hebrew inscription in proto-Canaanite script on a pottery fragment dated at 975 BC at a site believed to the biblical city of Sha’arayim (Two Gates). The city was located on a hill above the Valley of Elah, where the Bible says David slew Goliath.

900 BC–500 AD - Greek philosophy arose and continued through the Hellenistic period, at which point Ancient Greece was incorporated in the Roman Empire. - (The Urantia Book, 92:5.12; 98:0.0, 160:0.0, 161:0.0, Wikipedia, Greek Philosophy)

900 BC - Earliest written records. The Hebrews had no written language in general usage long after they reached Palestine. They learned the use of an alphabet from the neighboring Philistines, who are political refugees from the higher civilization of Crete. Having no written language until such a late date, they had several different stories of creation in circulation, but after the Babylonian captivity they inclined more toward accepting a modified Mesopotamian version - (The Urantia Book, 74:8.9)
[Science note] - The Great Wall of China began when fortifications built by various states during the Spring and Autumn (771–476 BC and Warring States periods (475–221 BC) were connected by the first emperor of China, Qin Shi Huang, to protect his newly founded Qin dynasty (221–206 BC) against incursions by nomads from Inner Asia. The walls were built of rammed earth, constructed using forced labour, and by 212 BC ran from Gansu to the coast of southern Manchuria. Later dynasties adopted different policies towards northern frontier defense. The Han (202-220 AD/), the Northern Qi (550–574 AD), the Sui (589–618 AD), and particularly the Ming (1369–1644 AD) were among those that rebuilt, re-manned, and expanded the Walls. The Han extended the fortifications furthest to the west, the Qi built about 990 miles of new walls. Although a useful deterrent against raids, at several points throughout its history the Great Wall failed to stop enemies, including in 1644 when the Manchu Qing marched through the gates of Shanhai Pass and replaced the most ardent of the wall-building dynasties, the Ming, as rulers of China. The Great Wall of China visible today largely dates from the Ming dynasty, as they rebuilt much of the wall in stone and brick, often extending its line through challenging terrain. Some sections remain in relatively good condition or have been renovated, while others have been damaged or destroyed for ideological reasons, deconstructed for their building materials, or lost due to the ravages of time.

770 BC–450 BC - Prophets of the Old Testament; an approximately 350 year span: Jonah (770 BC); Amos (760 BC); Hosea (760 BC); Isaiah (740 BC); Micah (737 BC); Habakkah (630 BC); Zephaniah (627 BC); Jeremiah (627 BC); Daniel (605 BC); Ezekiel (593 BC); Nahum (593 BC); Haggai (520 BC); Zechariah (520 BC); Joel (500 BC); Obadiah (500 BC); Malachi (433 BC)

700 BC–50 AD - For more than six hundred years the Jews of Judea, and later on those of Galilee also, had been at enmity with the Samaritans. This ill feeling between the Jews and the Samaritans came about in this way: Sargon, king of Assyria, in subduing a revolt in central Palestine, carried away and into captivity over 25,000 Jews of the northern kingdom of Israel and installed in their place an almost equal number of the descendants of the Cuthites, Sepharvites, and the Hamathites. Later on, Ashurbanipal sent still other colonies to dwell in Samaria - (The Urantia Book, 143:4.1)
[Science note] - 700 BC: In 2008 archaeologists found pottery used by Phoenicians in Tyre, Lebanon.
[Science note] - In Egypt in 2009 archaeologist revealed the discovery of a burial chamber 36 feet below ground at the necropolis of Saqqara dating back to about 640 BC.

600 BC–500 BC - Urantia witnesses a most unusual presentation of manifold religious truth. Through the agency of several human teachers the Salem gospel is restated and revitalized. Outstanding teachers in China were Lao-tse and Confucius, in India, Gautama Siddhartha, Zoroaster, the Jainist teachers, the Greek poet Pindar - (The Urantia Book, 94:6; 92:5.12; 95:6.1; 98:2.5)
[Science note] - Cappadocia (Central Anatolian Region, Turkey) was the home of the Hittite Empire. Many of Cappadocia’s temples and homes were cut directly into the rock structures known as fairy chimneys. The earliest mention of the region’s name dates back to the late 6th century BC.

423–347 BC - Plato, a Classical Greek philosopher, mathematician, and student of Socrates is the first of record to mention Atlantis in his dialogues Timaeus and Critias, written about 360 BC. This is possibly a legend based on the original Garden of Eden, that sank in the eastern Mediterranean Sea in 32,000 BC (See above) - (The Urantia Book, 92:5.12, 98:2.6, 121:6.3, 130:4.1, 133:5.2, 146:1.3, 164:3.4, Plato, Atlantis, wikipedia)
[Science note] - Petra (Ma'an Governorate, Jordan) is a historical and archaeological city in southern Jordan. The city is famous for its rock-cut architecture and water conduit system. Another name for Petra is the Rose City due to the color of the stone out of which it is carved. Established possibly as early as 312 BC as the capital city of the Arab Nabataeans.
[Science note] - Following Alexander the Great's conquest of Persia in the 330 BC years, Baalbek (under its Hellenic name Heliopolis) formed part of the Diadochi kingdoms of Egypt and Syria. It was annexed by the Romans during their eastern wars.
[Science note] - The early history of Teotihuacan (San Juan Teotihuacan, Mexico) is quite mysterious, and the origin of its founders is uncertain. Around 300 BC, people of the central and southeastern area of Mesoamerica began to gather into larger settlements. Teotihuacan was the largest urban center of Mesoamerica before the Aztecs, almost 1,000 years prior to their epoch. The city was already in ruins by the time of the Aztecs.
[Science note] - A partially excavated Roman city, Volubilis, founded in the 3rd century BC, was originally a Phoenician settlement. The city was abandoned around the 11th century AD when Morocco’s seat of power was relocated to Fes.
[Science note] - Ptolemy III Euergeter served as Egypt’s 3rd ruler of the Ptolemaic Dynasty in 222 BC In 2010 archaeologists discovered a temple, thought to belong to Queen Berenice, wife of King Ptolemy III. Archaeologists believed that the temple might have been dedicated to the ancient cat-goddess Bastet.
[Science note] - In China in 1974 an ancient terracotta army created by Qin Shi Huang, China’s first emperor (221-206 BC) was discovered by a peasant digging a well. It represented one of the greatest archaeological finds of modern times, and was listed as a World Heritage Site in 1987.

106 BC–43 BC - Marcus Tullius Cicero, is generally perceived to be one of the most versatile minds of ancient Rome - (The Urantia Book, 195:2.6) Wikipedia bio

100 BC - The beginning of the rise of the Roman Empire to dominate the politics of Europe, North Africa and the Near East completely,( Rise of the Roman Empire)

80 BC - The apocalyptists. About one hundred years before the days of Jesus and John a new school of religious teachers arose in Palestine, the apocalyptists. These new teachers evolve a system of belief that accounted for the sufferings and humiliation of the Jews on the ground that they are paying the penalty for the nation's sins. They fall back onto the well-known reasons assigned to explain the Babylonian and other captivities of former times - (The Urantia Book, 135:5.2)

29 BC - The birth of Joseph, the earth father of Jesus. Joseph was a Hebrew. He belonged to a long and illustrious line of the nobility of the common people. He carried many non-Jewish racial strains which had been added to his ancestral tree from time to time by the female lines of his progenitors. His ancestry went back to the days of Abraham, leading to the Sumerians and Nodites and, through the southern tribes of the ancient blue man, to Andon and Fonta. David and Solomon were not in the direct line of Joseph’s ancestry, neither did Joseph’s lineage go directly back to Adam. Joseph’s immediate ancestors were mechanics—builders, carpenters, masons, and smiths. Joseph himself was a carpenter and later a contractor. - (The Urantia Book, 122:1.2, 122:5.9)

Mary, the earth mother of Jesus. Although the birth date of Mary isn't given in The Urantia Book; it would have been somewhere within this period. She is a descendant of a long line of unique ancestors embracing many of the most remarkable women in racial history. Mary is an average woman of her day and generation, possessing a fairly normal temperament, but she reckoned among her ancestors such well-known women as Annon, Tamar, Ruth, Bathsheba, Ansie, Cloa, Eve, Enta, and Ratta. No Jewish woman of that day had a more illustrious lineage of common progenitors or one extending back to more auspicious beginnings. Mary's ancestry, like Joseph's, was characterized by the predominance of strong but average individuals, relieved now and then by numerous outstanding personalities in the march of civilization and the progressive evolution of religion. Racially considered, it is hardly proper to regard Mary as a Jewess. In culture and belief she was a Jew, but in hereditary endowment she was more a composite of Syrian, Hittite, Phoenician, Greek, and Egyptian genetics, her racial inheritance being more general than that of Joseph. Mary's parents were Joachim and Hannah. She had two brothers and two sisters, one of which was named Salome. - (The Urantia Book, 122:1.2)

15 BC - Birth of Abner, who lived to be 89 years old - (The Urantia Book, 166:5.7)

8 BC - March. Joseph and Mary are married, in accordance with Jewish custom, at Mary's home in the environs of Nazareth; Joseph is 21 years old. This marriage concluded a normal courtship of almost two years' duration - (The Urantia Book, 122:5.9)
8 BC - Gabriel appears to Mary the day after the conception of Jesus - (The Urantia Book, 122:0.3)
8 BC - Late in June, about three months after the marriage of Joseph and Mary, Gabriel appeared to Elizabeth at noontide one day, just as he later made his presence known to Mary - (The Urantia Book, 122:2.2)
8 BC - March. Caesar Augustus decrees that all inhabitants of the Roman Empire should be numbered, that a census should be made which could be used for effecting better taxation. Throughout all the Roman Empire this census is registered in the year 8 BC, except in the Palestinian kingdom of Herod, where it is taken in 7 BC, one year later - (The Urantia Book, 122:7.1)

7 BC - Birth of Lazarus, brother of Martha and Mary, whom Jesus resurrected in March, 30 AD - (The Urantia Book, 168:5.3)
7 BC - February, Elizabeth tells Mary of Gabriel's visit - (The Urantia Book, 122:2.4)
7 BC - March 25. Birth of John the Baptist. In accordance with the promise that Gabriel made to Elizabeth in June of the previous year - (The Urantia Book, 135:0.1)
7 BC - On May 29, there occurred an extraordinary conjunction of Jupiter and Saturn in the constellation of Pisces. And it is a remarkable astronomic fact that similar conjunctions occurred on September 29 and December 5 of the same year. Upon the basis of these extraordinary but wholly natural events the well-meaning zealots of the succeeding generation constructed the appealing legend of the star of Bethlehem and the adoring Magi led thereby to the manger, where they beheld and worshiped the newborn babe - (The Urantia Book, 122:8.7)
[Science note] - Archaeologists unearthed an army of 8,000 life-size clay figures created more than 2,000 years ago for the Emperor Qin Shi Huangdi (Shihuangdi).

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- Modern History -

30 AD - April 7, Friday afternoon. At about 4:30 the burial procession of Jesus started from Golgotha for Joseph's tomb across the way. The body is wrapped in a linen sheet as the four men carried it, followed by the faithful women watchers from Galilee Those who bore the material body of Jesus to the tomb are: Joseph, Nicodemus, John, and the Roman centurion - (The Urantia Book, 188:1.3) [Point of Historical Interest]
30 AD - April 9, Sunday. At 3:02 am. The resurrection of Jesus. The morontia form and personality of Jesus of Nazareth came forth from the tomb. To believers, the resurrection of Lazarus and Jesus' resurrection prove conclusively that death is not extinction, that rather it is a transition from one form of life to another - (The Urantia Book, 189:1.1)
30 AD - April 9, Sunday morning. About 3:30 the 5 women, laden with their ointments, arrived before the empty tomb. As they passed out of the Damascus gate, they encounter a number of soldiers fleeing into the city more or less panic-stricken, and this caused them to pause for a few minutes; but when nothing more developed, they resumed their journey - (The Urantia Book, 189:4.5)
30 AD - April 9, Sunday, 4:30. Resurrection roll call of Michael. The divisional headquarters for the universe administration of archangel activity is established and the circuit of the archangels operates on Urantia for the first time - (The Urantia Book, 45:4.2; 189:4.2; 37:3.4)
30 AD - April 16. John Zebedee took Mary the mother of Jesus to his home in Bethsaida. James, Jesus' eldest brother, remained with his family in Jerusalem. Ruth remained at Bethany with Lazarus's sisters. The rest of Jesus' family returned to Galilee.
30 AD - May 18, Thursday. Jesus' ascension. Jesus made his 19th and final appearance on earth. It is about 7:45 this morning when the morontia Jesus disappeared from the observation of his eleven apostles to begin the ascent to the right hand of his Father, there to receive formal confirmation of his completed sovereignty of the universe of Nebadon. - (The Urantia Book, 193:3.1, 5.5)
30 AD - May 18, Thursday. Pentecost and the bestowal of the Comforter, the Spirit of Truth - (The Urantia Book, 194:1.1)
30 AD - May. By 4:30 more than 2,000 new believers follow the apostles down to the pool of Siloam where Peter, Andrew, James, and John baptize them in the Master's name - (The Urantia Book, 194:1.4)
30 AD - June. David Zebedee and Ruth, Jesus' youngest sister wed - (The Urantia Book, 190:1.10)

34 AD - Lanonandek Fortant attached to the staff of Lanaforge - (The Urantia Book, 45:3.7)
34 AD - Establishment of the 24 counselors on Jerusem - (The Urantia Book, 45:4.1)

37–100 AD - Josephus, Titus Flavius, a 1st-century Romano-Jewish historian and biographer. Josephus recorded Jewish history, with special emphasis on the 1st century AD. In his historical writings refers to the Sadducees, Jewish High Priests of the time, Pharisees and Essenes, the Herodian Temple, Quirinius' census and the Zealots, and to such figures as Pontius Pilate, Herod the Great, Agrippa I and Agrippa II, John the Baptist, James the brother of Jesus, and a centuries-long disputed reference to Jesus. (Josephus, Wikipedia)
[Science note] - Some 20,000 pieces of jewelry and other objects were buried about 37 AD with a warrior-prince and 5 women in northern Afghanistan. In 1978-79 an archeological team discovered their 6 sealed tombs at a site called Tillya Tepe (hill of gold). The findings became known as the “Golden Hoard of Bactria.”

40 AD - The Apostle Matthew's original record is edited and added to just before he left Jerusalem to engage in evangelistic preaching. His was a private record - (The Urantia Book, 121:8.6)

50 AD - At first the Apostles baptized in the name of Jesus; it was almost 20 years before they began to baptize in "the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit." baptism was all that was required for admission into the fellowship of believers. There was no organization as yet; it was simply the Jesus brotherhood - (The Urantia Book, 194:4.9)

59 AD - Death of Lazarus. After his resurrection in 30 AD Lazarus became treasurer of the church at Philadelphia and a strong supporter of Abner in his controversy with Paul and the Jerusalem church. He ultimately died at 67 years, of the same sickness that carried him off when he is a younger man at Bethany - (The Urantia Book, 168:5.3)

67 AD - Death of the Apostle Peter - (The Urantia Book, 121:8.3)

68 AD - The Gospel by Mark. John Mark wrote the earliest (excepting the notes of Andrew), briefest, and most simple record of Jesus' life. He presented the Master as a minister, as man among men. Although Mark was a lad lingering about many of the scenes which he depicts, his record is in reality the Gospel according to Simon Peter. He was early associated with Peter; later with Paul. Mark wrote this record at the instigation of Peter and on the earnest petition of the church at Rome. Knowing how consistently the Master refused to write out his teachings when on earth and in the flesh, Mark, like the apostles and other leading disciples, was hesitant to put them in writing. Peter felt the church at Rome required the assistance of such a written narrative, and Mark consented to undertake its preparation. In accordance with the outline approved by Peter and for the church at Rome, he began his writing. The Gospel was completed near the end of AD 68. Mark wrote entirely from his own memory and Peter's memory - (The Urantia Book, 121:8.3)

70 AD - The Roman destruction of Jerusalem.
70 AD - The Gospel by Matthew. Isador escaped from Jerusalem after the investment of the city by the armies of Titus, taking with him to Pella a copy of Matthew's notes. In the year 71, while living at Pella, Isador wrote the Gospel according to Matthew. He also had with him the first four fifths of Mark's narrative - (The Urantia Book, 121:8.7)
[Science note] - Found in Rome, Italy, the Colosseum is also known as the Flavian Amphitheatre. The largest amphitheater in the world, it was built of concrete and stone from 70-80 AD.

74 AD - November 21. Death of Abner, who, living to be 89 years old, died at Philadelphia. To the very end he was a faithful believer in, and teacher of, the gospel of the heavenly kingdom - (The Urantia Book, 166:5.7)
[Science note] - Pompeii, Italy, is an ancient Roman city near current-day Naples, destroyed and buried in ash and pumice after the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD.

82 AD - The Gospel by Luke. Luke, the physician of Antioch in Pisidia, was a gentile convert of Paul, and he wrote quite a different story of the Master's life. He began to follow Paul and learn of the life and teachings of Jesus in AD 47. Luke preserves much of the "grace of the Lord Jesus Christ" in his record as he gathered up these facts from Paul and others. He did not formulate his many notes into the Gospel until after Paul's death. Luke wrote in Achaia. He planned three books dealing with Christ and the history of Christianity but died in AD 90 just before he finished the second of these works, the "Acts of the Apostles." - (The Urantia Book, 121:8.8, 9)

100 AD - In the first century after Christ, Hellenistic culture had already attained its highest levels; its retrogression had begun; learning was advancing but genius was declining. It was at this very time that the ideas and ideals of Jesus, which are partially embodied in Christianity, became a part of the salvage of Greek culture and learning - (The Urantia Book, 195:1.9)

101 AD - The Gospel of John. The Gospel according to John relates much of Jesus' work in Judea and around Jerusalem which is not contained in the other records. This is the so-called Gospel according to John the son of Zebedee, and though John did not write it, he did inspire it. Since its first writing it has several times been edited to make it appear to have been written by John himself. When this record was made, John had the other Gospels, and he saw that much had been omitted; he encouraged his associate, Nathan, a Greek Jew from Caesarea, to begin the writing. John supplied his material from memory and by reference to the three records already in existence. He had no written records of his own. The Epistle known as "First John" was written by John himself as a covering letter for the work which Nathan executed under his direction - (The Urantia Book, 121:8.10)

103 AD - John the Apostle died a natural death at Ephesus when he was one hundred and one years of age. - (The Urantia Book, 139:4.1, 15)

200 AD - The second century after Christ is the best time in all the world's history for a good religion to make progress in the Western world - (The Urantia Book, 195:3.7)
[Science note] - Amphitheatre of El Jem (Mahdia Governorate, Tunisia) is one of the remains of the Roman city of Thysdrus, known today as El Djem. The amphitheatre was capable of seating 35,000 people and was built in the early 3rd century AD.

300 AD - The final decline of the Roman Empire, which had lasted for about 400 years. (Decline of Rome)
[Science note] - Hadrian’s Wall (Cumbria, England), was a fortification in the Roman province of Britannia, begun in 122 AD in the reign of the emperor Hadrian. It ran from the banks of the River Tyne near the North Sea to the Solway Firth on the Irish Sea, and was the northern limit of the Roman Empire, immediately north of which were the lands of the northern Ancient Britons, including the Picts. The majority of the wall was built over six years and marked the de facto border of the Roman Empire in the British Isles.
[Science note] - Scholars consider Tiwanaku, Bolivia, to be one of the most important pre-Incan civilizations in this region. The empire of which Tiwanaku was the capital flourished from 300-1000 AD.

386 AD - The Archbishop of Constantinople, John Chrysostom, preached a sermon in Antioch c. 386 which established the date of Jesus' birth, Christmas, as December 25 on the Julian calendar. [Point of Historical Interest How December 25 Became Christmas ]; [Point of Historical Interest Wikipedia, Christmas ]

416 AD - The last copy of Matthew's original record of Jesus was destroyed in a fire in a Syrian monastery - (The Urantia Book, 121:8.6)
[Science note] - Over 1,400 caves filled with over 100,000 statues make up Longmen Grottoes (Henan Province, China), also known as the Longmen Caves. Some of the statues are only one inch tall, while the largest Buddha statue measures 57 feet tall. Its earliest history is traced to the reign of Emperor Xiaowen of Northern Wei dynasty when he shifted his capital to Luoyang from Datong; Luoyang served as the historic capital for 13 dynasties. The grottoes were excavated and carved with Buddhist subjects over the period from 493 ADto 1127 AD.
[Science note] - Ajanta Caves (Maharashtra, India) consist of about 30 rock-cut Buddhist monuments which date from the 2nd century BC to about 480 or 650 AD The area was covered in dense foliage until it was rediscovered by chance in 1819.
[Science note] - Coba (Quintana Roo, Mexico), not far from Tulum’s ruins, Coba was a pre-Columbian Mayan city on the Yucatan Peninsula. The site is the nexus of the largest network of stone causeways of the ancient Mayan world, and it contains many engraved and sculpted stelae that document ceremonial life and important events of the Late Classic Period (600–900 AD) of Mesoamerican civilization.
[Science note] - Ellora (Maharashtra, India), an Indian archeological site, is best known for its caves. There are 34 of them, and they were cut out of the rock faces of the Charanandri Hills. The site presents monuments and artwork of Buddhism, Hinduism and Jainism from the 600-1000 AD period.
[Science note] - Chichen Itza is a world-famous complex of Mayan ruins on Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula. A massive step pyramid known as El Castillo dominates the 6.5-sq.-km. ancient city, which thrived from around 600 A.D. to the 1200s.
[Science note] - Jerash (Jerash Governorate, Jordan), originally constructed around the time of Alexander the Great, was held by a number of successive empires. In 749 AD, an earthquake destroyed much of the city. Wars and subsequent earthquakes added to the deterioration. The ruins remained buried until discovered in 1806.
[Science note] - Borobudur (Magelang, Central Java, Indonesia) is the world’s largest Buddhist temple. It is composed of six square platforms with three circular platforms resting on top of them. The temple is decorated with 2,672 relief panels and 504 Buddha statues and evidence suggests Borobudur was constructed in the 9th century and abandoned following the 14th-century decline of Hindu kingdoms in Java and the Javanese conversion to Islam.
[Science note] - Bagan (Mandalay Region, Burma) was the capital of the Kingdom of Pagan from the 9th century to the 13th century. In present time, over 2,200 temples and pagodas can be found. At its peak, the city contained over 10,000 Buddhist temples.

1000 AD - Machiventa Melchizedek, the onetime sage of Salem, was invisibly present on Urantia for a period of one hundred years, acting as resident governor general of the planet - (The Urantia Book, 93:10.1)

1034 AD - Origin of the Crab nebula - (The Urantia Book, 41:8.4)
[Science note] - Montezuma Castle National Monument (Camp Verde, Arizona, United States). These very well-preserved ancestral Puebloan cliff dwellings were built by the pre-Columbian Sinagua people, a culture closely related to the Hohokam and other indigenous peoples of the southwestern United States, between approximately 1100 and 1425 AD.
[Science note] - Ta Prohm is the modern name of the temple at Angkor, Siem Reap Province, Cambodia, built in the Bayon style largely in the late 12th and early 13th centuries AD and originally called Rajavihara. It was founded as a Mahayana Buddhist monastery and university.
[Science note] - Moai of Rano Raraku (Easter Island, Chile), is the main quarry of moai on Easter Island. The Rapa Nui people carved the human figures, or moai, between 1250-1500 AD The tallest moai weighs 82 tons – the simple act of moving it is considered a more-than-impressive feat.
[Science note] - Tulum (Quintana Roo, Mexico) is a pre-Columbian Maya site, a major port for Coba, one of the last cities built by the Maya. The ruins are situated on 40 foot tall cliffs, along the east coast of the Yucatan Peninsula on the Caribbean Sea. It was at its height between the 13th-15th centuries and managed to survive about 70 years after the Spanish began occupying Mexico. Old World diseases brought by the Spanish settlers appear to have resulted in very high fatalities, disrupting the society and eventually causing the city to be abandoned.
[Science note] - A Buddhist temple located in Ayutthaya Historical Park, Wat Ratchaburana (Ayutthaya, Thailand) was founded in 1424 AD by King Borommarachathirat II on the cremation site of his two elder brothers, who died in a duel for the succession of the throne.

1434 AD - Completion of the Michael memorial on Jerusem - (The Urantia Book, 46:5.12 )
[Science note] - Machu Picchu was built around 1450, at the height of the Inca. Discovered in 1911 its construction appears to date to the period of the two great Inca rulers, Pachacutec Inca Yupanqui (1,438-1,471) and Tupac Inca Yupanqui (1,472–1,499).

1500 AD - Jehovah is a term which in recent times has been employed to designate the completed concept of Yahweh which finally evolved in the long Hebrew experience. But the name Jehovah did not come into use until fifteen hundred years after the times of Jesus - (The Urantia Book, 96:1.10)

1808 AD - True prophets and teachers arose to denounce and expose shamanism. Even the vanishing red race had such a prophet, the Shawnee Teuskwatowa, predicted the eclipse of the sun in 1808 and denounced the vices of the white man - (The Urantia Book, 90:2.9)

1827–1915 - Ellen G. White, one of the founders of the Seventh Day Adventist Church, was influential in William S. Sadler's early theological beliefs.Wikipedia

1847–1849 - Archeological excavations in Iraq uncover 30,000 cuneiform tablets and fragments from the royal state library of King Ashurbanipal (668-around 630 BC) which were taken to the British Museum where they remained until the undertaking of the Ashurbanipal Library Project begun in 2002. See Ashurbanipal Library Project of the British Museum; [Timeline reference - 6,000 BC - Sumerian Legend ]

1875–1969 - William S. Sadler MD, was an American surgeon, psychiatrist and author who helped publish The Urantia Book.

1875–1939 - Lena K. Sadler (nee Kellogg) MD, was an American physician, surgeon, and obstetrician-leader in women's health issues. She, along with her husband William Sadler helped to publish The Urantia Book.

1880 - Meteorite strike in Bengal, India mentioned in The Urantia Book.

1884 - There are not many sun-forming nebulae active in Orvonton at the present time, though Andromeda, which is outside the inhabited superuniverse, is very active. The giant nova of the Andromeda nebula collapsed in forty minutes - (The Urantia Book, 15:4.7; 41:8.3)

1934 - Inditing of the Urantia Papers, Parts I, II, III into English by revelatory commission - (The Urantia Book, 56:10.23)
1934 - The twentieth century has brought new problems for Christianity and all other religion to solve - (The Urantia Book, 195:5.1)
1934 - The worst of the materialistic age is over; the day of a better understanding is already beginning to dawn. The higher minds of the scientific world are no longer wholly materialistic in their philosophy, but the rank and file of the people still lean in that direction as a result of former teachings - (The Urantia Book, 195:6.4)

1935 - Receipt of Part IV, restatement of the life and teachings of Jesus, by commission of Urantia midwayers - (The Urantia Book, Part IV)
1935 - The sun is functioning through the period of greatest economy. It will shine on at present efficiency for more than twenty-five billion years - (The Urantia Book, 41:9.5)

1941 - Arrangements with RR Donnelley & Sons, Chicago, made for setting the text of The Urantia Book into steel plates for printing. The first printing of The Urantia Book will not take place until October, 1955.

1950 - Urantia Foundation established; Wikipedia article

1955 - Urantia Brotherhood established; Urantia Book Historical Society article
1955 - October, first printing of The Urantia Book, Urantia Foundation, hardcover, 10,000 copies

1961 - First printing of The Urantia Book, Urantia Foundation French Edition, Le Livre D'Urantia

1967 - Second printing of The Urantia Book, Urantia Foundation, hardcover, 10,000 copies

1971 - Third printing of The Urantia Book, Urantia Foundation, hardcover, 15,000 copies

1973 - Fourth printing of The Urantia Book, Urantia Foundation, hardcover, 25,000 copies

1975 - August 1-2; Urantia Brotherhood International Conference - Kendall College, Evanston Illinois

1976 - Fifth printing of The Urantia Book, Urantia Foundation, hardcover, 25,000 copies

1978 - August 13-18; Urantia Brotherhood International Conference -
1978 - Sixth printing of The Urantia Book, Urantia Foundation, hardcover, 25,000 copies

1981 - June 28-July 3; Urantia Brotherhood International Conference - Snowmass, Aspen, Colorado
1981 - July, seventh printing of The Urantia Book, Urantia Foundation, hardcover, 23,114 copies

1984 - Urantia Brotherhood International Conference
1984 - Eighth printing of The Urantia Book, Urantia Foundation, hardcover, 25,000 copies
1984 - Jesusonian Foundation established

1986 - Ninth printing of The Urantia Book, Urantia Foundation, hardcover, 30,000 copies

1987 - August 2-7; Urantia Brotherhood International Conference - Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Maine

1989 - October, Urantia Foundation disenfranchises Urantia Brotherhood which changes its name to "Fifth Epochal Fellowship".

1990 - June 30-July 5; International Conference for Readers of The Urantia Book "Walking With God" - Snowmass, Aspen, Colorado
1990 - Tenth printing of The Urantia Book, Urantia Foundation, hardcover, 30,000 copies

1991 - The organization name "Fifth Epochal Fellowship," is officially changed to "The Fellowship" (For readers of The Urantia Book).

1993 - July 31-August 5; International Conference "Touch The World" - St-Hyacinthe/Montreal, Quebec, Canada
1993 - Eleventh printing of The Urantia Book, Urantia Foundation,
1993 - First printing of The Urantia Book, Urantia Foundation Finnish Edition, Urantia-Kirja
1993 - First printing of The Urantia Book, Urantia Foundation Spanish Edition, El Libro de Urantia

1994 - The Urantia Book arrives on the internet to be read and searched

1995 - May, twelfth printing of The Urantia Book, Urantia Foundation, softcover, 5,000 copies
1995 - October, thirteenth printing of The Urantia Book, Urantia Foundation, hardcover, 25,000 copies
1995 - God's Bible printing of The Urantia Book, Pathways, Inc., hardcover, 5,000 copies
1995 - The Urantia Papers printing of The Urantia Book, Pathways, Inc., hardcover, 5,000 copies

1996 - August 3-8 - The Fellowship's International Conference "Living Faith" - Flagstaff, Arizona
1996 - First printing of The Urantia Book, Uversa Press Edition

1997 - First printing of The Urantia Book, Urantia Foundation Russian Edition,
1997 - First printing of The Urantia Book, Urantia Foundation Dutch Edition, Het Urantia Boek
1997 - Second printing of The Urantia Book, Urantia Foundation Spanish Edition, El Libro de Urantia

1998 - Fourteenth printing of The Urantia Book, Urantia Foundation,
1998 - Urantia Foundation Leather Pocket Side printing of The Urantia Book

1999 - August 7-12; The Urantia Book Fellowship International Conference "Spirit Quest 2000" - University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
1999 - Fifteenth printing of The Urantia Book, Urantia Foundation

2001 - Second printing of The Urantia Book, Urantia Foundation Russian Edition
2001 - Second printing of The Urantia Book, Uversa Press Edition

2002 - February 7; Press release announcing the establishment of Jesusonian Foundation's website Truthbook.com
2002 - June 30-July 6; The Urantia Book Fellowship International Conference " Revelation in Action" - Estes Park, Colorado

2003 - First printing of The Urantia Book, Uversa Press indexed Edition
2003 - First printing of The Urantia Book, Uversa Press indexed version special leather bound gilt edge

2005 - July 31; The Urantia Book Fellowship International Conference "Body, Mind and Spirit" - Villanova University, Pennsylvania
2005 - Second printing of The Urantia Book, Uversa Press indexed version special leather bound gilt edge
2005 - First printing of The Urantia Book, Urantia Foundation German Edition, Das Urantia Buch

2006 - July 26; establishment of The Urantia Book Historical Society

2007 - Eighteenth printing of The Urantia Book, Urantia Foundation,
2007 - First printing of Portuguese translation of The Urantia Book.

2008 - July; The Urantia Book Fellowship International Conference - University of California, Los Angeles, California
2008 - Nineteenth printing of The Urantia Book, Urantia Foundation,
2008 - Second printing of The Urantia Book, Uversa Press indexed Edition
2008 - Standardized Reference Text Committee for the text of The Urantia Book produces Reference Documentation. Available at Urantia Foundation Website

2009 - Newly designed Urantia Foundation Website on-line. In conjunction with the new website, the text of The Urantia Book and each of its translations is being reformatted for electronic use and to standardize printing processes. A new standardization text identification system is implemented to provide control of the current text and a new annotation system is adopted which accounts for every paragraph and list item in the text.

2011 - July; The Urantia Book Fellowship International Conference - University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah

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- The Future -

Before the inception of life, Urantia was designated a decimal, life-experiment world. (See 900,000,000 BC - The Urantia Book, 36:2.8, 40:5.5, 57:8.8, 58:0.1, 62:7.1, 119:8.8)
Although its ultimate destiny is secure, Urantia is a "wild card world." The path to that future destiny will provide many unforseen turns and branches, similar to the circuitous path in the spiritual evolution of the planet that has resulted in the world we know today.Urantia has already been the stage for unanticipated events conforming it to the unique niche in the cosmos that it will forever occupy:
• the loss of a spiritual steward through rebellion, (See 200,000 BC),
• the default and loss of the planetary mother and father, (See 35,797 BC),
• the emergency Melchizedek revelation (See 1,980–1,886 BC) to reinforce the concept of monotheism and to pave the way for the incarnation of the Creator Son, (See 7 BC), and
• culminating with the reception of the Urantia revelation (See 1934).
What can be predicted of the future, along with the usual evolutionary course of events, is that it will continue to provide surprises.
In the immediate future for each of us is physical death and resurrection on the mansion worlds in a new (morontia) body. (The Urantia Book, Paper 47)

The Future +1 - The midwayers relate that "the worst of the materialistic age is over; the day of a better understanding is already beginning to dawn." (The Urantia Book, 195:6.4) and Jesus stated that "when the world has passed through the long winter of material-mindedness and you discern the coming of the spiritual springtime of a new dispensation, should you know that the summertime of a new visitation draws near." (The Urantia Book, 176:2.6) The visitation of a Magisterial Son and the inauguration of a new dispensation is approaching.

The Future +2 - The revelators indicate that Machiventa Melchizedek will return to assume the position of Planetary Prince at the beginning of the next dispensation; but others think that he could come even sooner—"any day or hour." (The Urantia Book, 114:1.3)

The Future +3 - Michael will return sometime (as he promised) to finish his bestowal Son tasks as the spiritual uplifter, a job that he couldn't complete because he came before the mindal uplift of the Magisterial Son (or Sons). Michael may also wait for further biologic uplift, which some of the revelators speculate may be fostered by Machiventa in the additional role as Material Son. (The Urantia Book, 93:10.6-7)

The Future +4 - Wars and rumors of wars will fade away as the teachings of Jesus, the Gospel of the Kingdom, permeate the hearts of mankind. "...peace on earth will not come until all are willing to believe and enter into their glorious inheritance of sonship with God." (The Urantia Book, 165:6.3)

The Future +5 - The races will have blended, resulting in a skin tone of an olive hue. (The Urantia Book, 52:3.7)

The Future +6 - The first stage of light and life will manifest. The world is administered by three celestial beings: the Planetary Sovereign, the chief of the planetary corps of finaliters, and Adam and Eve. (The Urantia Book, 55:4.4)

The Future +7 - The beginning of the second stage of light and life. A Life Carrier becomes the adviser of the planetary rulers regarding the further efforts to purify and stabilize the mortal race. (The Urantia Book, 55:4.8)

The Future +8 - The beginning of the third stage of light and life. Representatives of the superuniverses enter into new relationships with the planetary administration. (The Urantia Book, 55:4.10)

The Future +9 - The fourth stage of light and life. Trinity Teacher Sons become advisors to the world administration. (The Urantia Book, 55:4.14)

The Future +10 - The fifth stage of light and life pertains almost entirely on stabilizing the planetary environment. (The Urantia Book, 55:4.17)

The Future +11 - The sixth stage of light and life produces enhanced mindal function among the people of the world. (The Urantia Book, 55:4.18)

The Future +12 - The world is settled in the seventh stage of light and life. The physical forces of the planet and the sun are stabilized so that they can continue on into eternity. (The Urantia Book, 32:3.2, 55:4.18)

The Future +13 - The local universe of Nebadon becomes settled in light and life. (The Urantia Book, 15:9.15)

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