exists and is an alternate of . Technically the longest war ever was the 335 years long, there was no casualties in it or anything but it was officially declared March 30, 1651 and officially ended on April 17, 1986.
Interesting Facts about Ice Ages. 1  The current interglacial period that the Earth is in is called the Holocene period. 2  Most of Canada was covered with ice just 20,000 years ago. 3  An ice age can occur if the global temperature drops just a few degrees for a long period of time.
The theoretical extent of these ice sheets during the ice age 1.5 mya is shown in white on the map below. (White area = maximum glacial extent 1.5 million years ago in the Pleistocene Epoch - Microsoft Encarta) Ice ages are said to have occurred every 150 million years, and last for at least 1 million years. According to the ice age theory, our current warm period will end with the beginning of another cold phase in 23,000 years time. Geologists claim that there have been 5 major ice ages. During ice ages the boundary of the ice sheet is hypothesised to spread and contract in cycles.