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Charles Robert Darwin Birth
Born to Robert Waring Darwin and Susannahnee Wedgwood -
Darwin begins his Education.
Darwin's Mother Dies -
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Boarding School in Shrewsbury.
Darwin attends Samuel Butler's in Shrewbury. The headmaster Samuel Butler was Grandfather of Samuel Butler (1835-1902), he was a scientific writer and one of Darwin's biggest critics. -
Starts College
Registers for medical courses. His First lecture. -
Meet's John Stevens Henslow
Takes Henslow's botany classes. Darwin becomes entomologist and collector of beetles. -
Henslow invites Darwin to a Voyage
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Darwin Completes College at Cambridge
Darwin, passes his BA examinations without honors. He remains at Cambridge for 2 terms to fulfill residence requirement. -
Beagle Voyage Preperations
Darwin’s father objects to Beagle's voyage, but his uncle, Josiah Wedgwood II, persuades him. Darwin, meets Captain of the Beagle, Robert FitzRoy and makes preparations for the voyage. After two false starts, the ship leaves Plymouth.
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Beagle Voyage.
Writes first article.
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Darwin lands in Cape Verde Island
First landing on a tropical shore at St Jago, Cape Verde Islands. Field notebooks begin to be used. Begins publishing scientific papers and his first articles.
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Publishes his first book
Publishes Geological Observations on the Volcanic Islands visited during the Voyage of HMS Beagle. Later followed by Geological Observations on South America and Barnacles. -
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Begins work on The Zoology of the Voyage of the Beagle
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Marries Emma Wedgwood.
Emma and Charles had ten children together. Emma had their first child, Willam Erasmus Darwin, that same year. Emma and Charles were first Cousins. -
Darwin's Father Dies
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Darwin Compares Seeds
Comparing seeds. Trying experiments in salting seeds. -
Natural Selection Begins
Darwin begins writing his views for a possible "big book" called 'Natural Selection'.
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Natural Selection is Published
On the Origin of Species by means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favored Races in the Struggle for Life is published in London
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Darwin's Beard
Begins to grow a beard after an episode of ill health. -
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Darwin becomes seriously ill.
Darwin, consults medical men about symptoms, ill health continues for 3 years. -
Publishes Another Book
The Descent of Man, and Selection in relation to Sex.http://darwin-online.org.uk/EditorialIntroductions/Freeman_TheDescentofMan.html -
Publishes 6th edition of Origin.
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Publishes Insectivorous Plants
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Starts Autobiography Memoirs
Darwin begins to write an autobiographical memoir for his children and future grandchildren.
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Publishes with Francis Darwin
Publishes The Power of Movement in Plants…Assisted by Francis Darwin.
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Charles Robert Darwin Death
Darwin, lived to be 73 and is buried at Westminster Abby in London, England.
