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Charles Darwin is born at The Mount, Shrewsbury, the fifth child of Robert Waring Darwin, physician, and Susannah Wedgwood.
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Darwin starts at Unitarian day school.
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Darwin attends Shrewsbury School as a boarder. He hates the school, describing it as "narrow and classical".
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Darwin is removed from school, being deemed unsuccessful, and spends the summer accompanying his father on his doctor's rounds. That autumn, he is sent to Edinburgh University, with his brother Erasmus, to study medicine.
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Darwin meets his most influential mentor at Edinburgh, Robert Grant.
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Darwin leaves Edinburgh without taking a degree.
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After spending some time brushing up on his forgotten Greek, Darwin enters Christ's College, Cambridge.
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Darwin pass his BA exam, and is astonished to be ranked 10th out of 178 candidates.
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Darwin finally sets sail on the Beagle.
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Darwin reads his first scientific paper "Observations...on the coast of Chile" at the Geological Society in London.
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Darwin marries Emma Wedgwood, his first cousin. Their first child, William Erasmus, is born on December 27th.
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Darwin published structure and distribution of Coral Reefs.
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Darwin writes a thirty-five page sketch of evolutionary theory.
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Darwin writes Volcanic Islands.
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Darwin finishes his last book describing the Beagle voyages: Geological Observations on South America.
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Charles was presented the Copley medal, the highest scientific award of the Royal Society of London.
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Darwin's first of two volumes on stalked barnacles is published. This overhauls the entire subclass of fossil and living Cirripedia.
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The Royal Society award Darwin their Royal Medal for his work on barnacles.
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Darwin conducts experiments to prove that seeds, plants and animals could reach oceanic islands, where they might produce new species in geographic isolation.
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Charles began working on a paper for his theory called natural selection.
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Charles' book was titled On The Origin Of Species By Natural Selection.
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Charles Darwin died and was buried at Westminster Abbey. His discoveries in the scientific world helped pave the way for free thinking, and his theories still live on today.
