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James Ussher
By counting the generations of the Bible and adding them to modern history, he fixed the date of creation at October 23, 4004 B.C -
John Ray wrote a book that described many species
John Ray's book, Historia Plantarum, described many species of plants and talked about common ancestors -
Carolus Linnaeus Birth
Carolus Linnaeus, or Carl Linné considered the father of modern taxonomy for his work in hierarchical classification he believed in the fixed nature of species as Darwin. He was born on 1703 May 23 Carl Linneaeus was born in smaland. -
First Frenchmen of Evolution
George Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon was a naturalist and mathmaticien. He was one of the first to suggest that things change over time. -
Immanual Kants Birth
German philosopher Immanuel Kant developed a concept of descent thinking that is relatively close to Darwin's Thinking.Born on 1724 April in konigsburg Prussia the German philosopher Immanuel Kant was born to a family of the Prietist sect. -
Carolus Linnaeus studies medicine
On 1727 Carlus Linnaeus arrives in Lund to study medicine, he remains in the town for a year. -
Immanuel Kent's education
On 1734 April Immanuel Kent enters collegium Fredericianum to study the theology execcels in the classics. -
Carl Linnaeus publishes first edition of systema nature
On June 18 1735 Carl Linnaeus publishes the first edition of "Systema Naturæ" – his famous work classifying the natural world. Carl Linnaeus defends his doctoral thesis, on malaria, in Harderwijk in Holland. He remains in Holland for three years. -
Carl Linnaeus was proffesor
on March 18 1741 Carl Linnaeus was appointed as Professor of Medicine in Uppsala. He travels during the year to Gotland and Öland, commissioned by parliament to look for natural resources. -
Jean-Baptiste Lamarck birth
Jean-Baptiste Lamarck's experimental evidence and the much more plausible mechanism of modification proposed by Darwin.Lamarck subscribed to a number of what we now know to be false beliefs about inheritance. Jean-Baptiste Lamarck's was born on August 1, 1744, in the village of Bazentin-le-Petit in the north of France. -
Carolus Linnaeus died
Carl Linnneaeus died on January 10 1778 -
Jean-Baptiste Chevalier de Lamarck
Jean-Baptiste Chevalier de Lamarck was one of the first evolutionary scientist to suggest the theory of evolution publicly. -
Giraffe Necks
Jean-Baptiste Lamarck believed that the giraffes necks got longer by stretching. -
Jean-Baptiste Lamarck published
Jean-Baptiste Lamarck published -
Natural Theology
William Paley, a British philosopher, wrote Natural Philosophy. It used the watchmaker analogy. -
Jean-Baptiste Lamarck Books
Jean-Baptiste Lamarck published a series of books on invertebrate zoology and paleontology. Of these, philosophies ans Zoologique published in 1809 But Jean-Baptiste Lamarck's works never became popular during his lifetime,about the theory of evolution. -
Bugs
Travels to Wales to collect insects with entomologist Frederick William Hope. Spends Michaelmas term in Cambridge. Entomologises with Leonard Jenyns; Friday evenings at Henslow's. July his name appears in Stephens' Illustrations of British Entomology. December three weeks in London with Erasmus. Entomological visits to Hope and Stephens. -
The Voyage finishes
H.M.S. Beagle finally arrived home after a voyage of four years, nine months, five days. They docked at Falmouth, England, at night during a storm. -
Alfred Russel Wallace was also involved in the Evolution theory
He was co-discoverer of Natural Selection -
Honorary LLd
Gets a Honorary LLD Doctorate of Law from Cambridge University.The Different Forms of Flowers on Plants of the same Species and A Biographical Sketch of an Infant are published.
