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Charles Robert Darwin is born on February 12 1809 in Shrewsbury, Shropshire.
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Darwin's mother, Susannah, dies when Darwin is 8 years old.
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Darwin goes to Edinburgh University to study medicine.
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Darwin then enrolls in Cambridge University after Edinburgh University.
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Darwin gets an invitation to sail around South America as the ships naturalist abourd the HMS Beagle.
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Darwin starts to develop the theory of natural selection.
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Darwin marries his cousin Emma and then eventually has 10 children.
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Darwin wrote his first essay outlining evolutionary theory. He also moves to Down House in Bromely, Kent where he will live for the rest of his life.
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Darwin dies in 1882 in Down House in Bromely. He wrote and studied many things about evolution and many other types of sciences before he died and is considered a great scientist.
