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Birthplace
Charles Darwin is born at The Mount in Shrewsbury on February 12, 1809, the fifth child of Robert Waring Darwin, a doctor, and Susannah Wedgwood. -
University
In the University of Edinburgh, Charles Darwin begins his medical studies. Because he cannot tolerate the sight of blood, he leaves in 1828 to enroll in Christ's College in Cambridge to pursue a general education degree that could eventually lead to him becoming an Anglican priest. He demonstrates his interest in natural history at both universities to be greater than his regular coursework. -
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Adventure to South America
Charles Darwin accepts an invitation to travel with HMS Beagle on a surveying mission to South America. At sea on HMS Beagle, Charles Darwin joins Captain Fitzroy. He travels throughout the world in the course of the five-year journey. National Geographic Society (no date) Charles Darwin, Education. Available at: https://education.nationalgeographic.org/resource/charles-darwin/ (Accessed: April 9, 2023). -
Journey Continues
The Beagle arrived at Galapagos Island, off the coast of Ecuador (Sept. 7), where Darwin made many observations and collected specimens which later served as evidence for his theory of evolution by natural selection. The Beagle then made call at Tahiti and New Zealand. -
Homecoming
Darwin began documenting his research after arriving back in England in 1836. This work was later compiled into the Zoology of the Voyage of the Beagle. The Journal of Researches was published as part of Captain FitzRoy's wider narrative. Hayden, T. (2009) What Darwin didn't know, Smithsonian.com. Smithsonian Institution. Available at: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/what-darwin-didnt-know-45637001/ (Accessed: April 9, 2023). -
Love Life
Darwin marries Emma Wedgwood, a cousin and member of the family known for its pottery works and opposition to slavery in the British Empire. -
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More Discoveries
Darwin worked on barnacles (Cirripedia), to which he had been presented amid his voyage on the Beagle. Four volumes, managing with living and fossil barnacles, in England and within the world, were distributed, 1851-54. In all, Darwin committed eight a long time to the think about of this little marine animal which connects itself to the frame of boats. -
Big Book
The production of the "big book" was hindered by a letter (June 18) from Alfred Russel Wallace in June 1858. Composing from the Malay archipelogo, where he was doing field inquire about, Wallace, who had distributed a paper on species advancement in 1855, declared comes about strikingly comparable to Darwin's concept of characteristic choice. -
Publication of Origin of Species
Distribution of Beginning of Species. This book, initially distributed in 1500 duplicates, was an theoretical of Darwin's "Big Book", and so, shockingly for a work before long to ended up one of the critical writings of present day science, it contained no commentaries. Darwin was 51 a long time ancient at the time of distribution. -
Discovery of Natural Selection
The Galápagos Islands, which are located west of Ecuador, were the last destination on Darwin's expedition, which was similar to Wallace's later trips to the Malay Archipelago. Darwin noted that species of organisms on various islands shared a lot in common but also differed significantly. -
Death
On April 19, 1882, Charles Darwin passed away in his London home, Down House. He was laid to rest in Westminster Abbey.