What year did fire start?

Answer 1

Let's see ... that would be ... Zippo lighter in 1933 ... matches in 1805 ... torches ... they had those in the middle ages - I remember they came in quite handy during the witch burnings... Nope, I think fire started before my time. I'll ask grandpa, he should know. He's always telling that story about the first lightning hitting the first tree and starting the whole plasma physics fad.

Answer 2

All right this has got to be one of the most ridicules questions I have seen.

Before we get into the fire part lets get into the year part. Datelines, as in numbering years, is an artificial concept that humans create to be able to mark the progression of its existence. The starting point is arbitrary as is the end point.

Second a solar year (the time it take for a planet to revolve around a star) varies from planet to planet. so one earth year is shorter than on Jupiter year.

Fire per say has existed ever since the universe existed. Take note as this might get a little deep for you. See that big orange thing in the sky. That is the Sun (otherwise known as one of billions upon billions of stars) its on fire! That particular star has been burning for 4 to 5 billion years by our concept of a year. but there are stars that are even older.

Further the earth didn't even come into being until much later. And its rotations has varied over time. So it is impossible to measure that actual date that fire started. Let's just say that it has been around FOREVER!

Answer 3

While there is very little reliable scientific info on this at the moment due to poor fossil evidence, fire seems only to have been invented c.40,000-60,000 years ago. It also stated that initially fire was not used for cooking food at all, but for warning away predators and for keeping warm - this seems far more likely than other claims of 400,000- 1,000,000 for the discovery of how to make fire.

http://experts.about.com/q/Anthropology-2291/fire-invented.htm

Scroll all the way down, the article continues with more info.

Answer 4

fire has been around just as long as lightning and volcano's if you mean what year did man start to use it you are out of luck since books and pencils were not invented yet and neither was language that was written, so there is no data n that at all except digs that find char and ashes but the oldest of those is long since gone and even if you found them you would only be able to carbon date them to within hundreds and most likely thousands of years

Answer 5

It started long before Earth. It started long before man. And it started to show man fire thru earthly elements like lightning and lava. Then finally man got the idea of creating it but nobody knows when exactly.

Answer 6

years ago when they rubbed 2 rocks together to start a fire

Answer 7

first fire start then year start

Answer 8

It was always burning since the worlds been turning




we didnt start the fire
no we didnt light it
but we tried to fight it

Answer 9

No one knows. It's just like the wheel. It just appeared. We do know that both were invented before farming.

Answer 10

That is a question that you will NEVER find an answer for.. only that it was in prehistoric times..