It clearly did on Earth. And we have some sense of when it happened. 

While the first microbial fossils we have date back some 3.5 billion years, there are graphite inclusions found in metamorphosed rocks that date back to 3.8 billion years ago. Certain carbon-based crystals, discovered in zircon deposits, push the suspected origin of life on Earth back to more than 4.3 billion years ago: nearly as old as the Earth itself.

• Life must have a metabolism, harvesting energy, resources, or both from its external environment, to be used for its own self-sustaining purposes.
• Life must react to external stimuli outside of its own existence, and alter its behavior in response.
• Life must permit some sort of growth, adaptation, or the ability to evolve from its present form into a different one.
• Life must be able to reproduce, creating viable offspring that arise from a process entirely internal to itself.