There are currently three eras defined in the Phanerozoic ; the following table lists them from youngest to oldest ( BP is an abbreviation for " before present ").

Fulham started playing at their current ground Craven Cottage in 1896, their first game against now defunct rivals Minerva F. C .. Fulham are the oldest established club in southern England currently playing professional football, though there are many non-league sides like Cray Wanderers which are several decades older.

Located at 4 Yawkey Way, it has served as the home ballpark of the Boston Red Sox baseball club since it opened in 1912 and is the oldest Major League Baseball stadium currently in use.

He had previously served as the 43rd Vice President of the United States ( 1981 – 89 ), a congressman, an ambassador, a Director of Central Intelligence, and is currently the oldest surviving president.

Kungshuset, the oldest university building ( completed 1584 ), currently houses the Department of Philosophy.

It is currently the third oldest international organization after the Rhine Commission and the ITU.

This is currently the world's oldest wagonway with provenance.

* January 19 – San Agustin Church in Manila is officially completed ; it is currently the oldest church in the Philippines

* The Anglo-Portuguese alliance is signed ( currently the oldest active treaty in the world ).

Buick is currently the oldest still-active American automotive make, and among the oldest automobile brands in the world.

* 2nd millennium BC – earliest possible date for the composition of the Babylonian Venus tablet of Ammisaduqa, a 7th century BC copy of a list of observations of the motions of the planet Venus, and the oldest planetary table currently known.

Cadillac is currently the second oldest American automobile manufacturer behind fellow GM marque Buick and is among the oldest automobile brands in the world.

The league was formed in 1993, and is the oldest currently running independent league.

The Dead Sea Scrolls are currently the best route of comparison to the accuracy and consistency of translation for the Hebrew Bible, due to their date of origin being the oldest out of any Biblical text currently known.

Bushnell's oldest child, Alissa, currently works with him at uWink.

The Western Athletic Conference ( WAC ) is an American collegiate athletic conference, which was formed on July 27, 1962, making it the sixth oldest of the 11 college athletic conferences currently participating in the NCAA's Division I FBS ( formerly Division I-A ).

Founded on 23 December 1889, it is the oldest football team in Spain, and currently plays in the second division, holding home games at Estadio Nuevo Colombino, which has a 21, 600 capacity.

The oldest written law currently in force is the Distress Act, part of the Statute of Marlborough, 1267 ( 52 Hen.

One of the early centres of industrial development and the Bulgarian labor movement, Varna established itself as the nation's principal port of export, a major grain producing and viticulture centre, seat of the nation's oldest institution of higher learning outside Sofia, a popular venue for international festivals and events, as well as the country's de facto summer capital with the erection of the Euxinograd royal summer palace ( currently, the Bulgarian government convenes summer sessions there ).

The oldest pictorial record of a lute dates back to the Uruk period in Southern Mesopotamia ( modern Nasiriyah city ), over 5000 years ago on a cylinder seal acquired by Dr. Dominique Collon and currently housed at the British Museum.

* Ronnie and Donnie Galyon of Ohio ( 1951 –), currently the world's oldest living conjoined twins, Omphalopagus.

Oliver Brothers is believed to be the first and the oldest continuously operating art restoration company in the United States.

The central bank of Sweden (" Sveriges Riksbank " or simply " Riksbanken ") was founded in Stockholm from the remains of the failed bank Stockholms Banco in 1664 and answered to the parliament (" Riksdag of the Estates ") thus making it the oldest central bank still operating today.

The medieval universities of Western Christendom were well-integrated across all of Western Europe, encouraged freedom of enquiry and produced a great variety of fine scholars and natural philosophers, including Thomas Aquinas of the University of Naples, Robert Grosseteste of the University of Oxford, an early expositor of a systematic method of scientific experimentation ; and Saint Albert the Great, a pioneer of biological field research The University of Bologne is considered the oldest continually operating university.

The Ithaca HOUR is a local currency used in Ithaca, New York and is the oldest and largest local currency system in the United States that is still operating.

* 1749 – The first issue of Berlingske, Denmark's oldest continually operating newspaper, is published.

The locomotive Fairy Queen, built in 1855 runs between Delhi and Alwar in India and is the oldest steam locomotive in regular ( albeit tourist-only ) service in the world, and the oldest steam locomotive operating on a mainline.

Downtown Lansing has a historic city market that is one of the oldest continuously operating farmers ' markets in the United States.

* 1877 – Labatt Park, the oldest continually operating baseball grounds in the world has its first game.

* 1941 – Philippine Airlines, the flag carrier of the Philippines took its first flight between Manila ( from Nielson Field ) to Baguio City with a Beechcraft Model 18 making the airline the first and oldest commercial airline in Asia operating under its original name.

The Aztec Motel in Albuquerque, New Mexico ( built 1932 ) was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1993 and listed on the New Mexico State Register of Cultural Properties as the oldest continuously operating US Route 66 motel in New Mexico.

Union Oyster House ( 1826 ) in Boston is the oldest continuously operating restaurant in America

The oldest operating restaurant in the United States, the Union Oyster House ( 1826 ), is located in Boston, Massachusetts.

It is the oldest airline still operating under its original name.

* 1910 – The Duke of York's Picture House opens in Brighton, now the oldest continually operating cinema in Britain.

It was followed in 1835 by New Orleans, Louisiana, which has the oldest continuously operating street railway system in the world, according to the American Society of Mechanical Engineers.

Baylor is the oldest university in the State of Texas operating under its original name.

* The brewery of Weltenburg Abbey is first mentioned, thus making it one of the oldest still operating breweries in the world.

Established in 1834 and having operated continuously since then, it is the oldest US railroad still operating under its original name and charter.

Amsterdam Airport Schiphol opened on September 16, 1916 as a military airfield, but only accepted civil aircraft from December 17, 1920, allowing Sydney Airport in Sydney, Australia — which started operations in January 1920 — to claim to be one of the world's oldest continually operating commercial airports.

In 1965 the California College of Medicine ( originally a school of osteopathy founded in 1896 and the oldest continuously operating medical college in the Southwest ) became part of UC Irvine.

The SD was one of the oldest security organizations of the SS and was first formed in 1931 as the Ic-Dienst, operating out of a single apartment and reporting directly to Heinrich Himmler.

* Kongo Gumi, the world's oldest continuously operating company ( 578 – 2006 ), is founded in Osaka, Japan.

The old Tryon County courthouse, later the Montgomery County courthouse, became the Fulton County Courthouse, where it is the oldest operating courthouse in New York.

The oldest ( 1839 ) continuously operating winery in the US is in Washingtonville, NY ( The Brotherhood Winery )