Holocene Calendar

12,000 years. Watch the pace change.

Follow the events that brought us here, from the first farms to artificial intelligence. Then explore the numbers behind them.

Year zero is 10,000 BCE. Cesare Emiliani proposed this calendar in 1993, adding 10,000 to a CE year so ancient and modern history share one continuous count.

Explore the curves of population, energy, health, wealth and AI compute alongside the events of human history.