What on Earth Happened?

Note: All these dates have associated constrained error bars, but the uncertainties are far outside any range compatible with YEC.

4850 ya - Methuselah, a now ancient bristlecone pine, begins life as a seedling in California.
5100 ya - 1st dynasty of united upper and lower Egypt is established.
5700 ya - Countable annual varves from core at the Great Blue Hole at Belize Barrier Reef.
7000 ya - Mount Mazama, Oregon, climactic eruption.
7284 ya - Solar storm [ Miyake ] event.
7435 ya - Solar storm [ Miyake ] event.
8175 ya - The Storegga submarine landslide causes tsunami hitting low lying Europe.
8939 ya - Eruption of Mt. Erciyes in Turkey, tephra deposits found in Dead Sea deposits.
9201 ya - Solar storm [ Miyake ] event.
9500 ya - Göbekli Tepe becomes a stone age center for pre-writing, pre-agriculture, people.
11,700 ya - Abrupt shift to Holocene climate.
14,300 ya - Largest known solar storm hits Earth.
14,570 ya - Countable annual varves from cores at the Lake Van, Turkey.
16000 ya - Last of the Missoula floods which shaped much of the northwest US.
20,000 ya - Zenith of the most recent ice age.
33,000 ya - Dated tephra deposit reference V-18 from Lake Van Core.
41,500 ya - Onset of Laschamp geomagnetic excursion.
42,200 ya - Laschamp geomagenetic excursion ends.
50,000 ya - Countable annual varves at Lake Suigetsu, Japan.
62,000 ya - Dated tephra deposit reference V-51 from Lake Van Core.

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