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The life and death of Charles Darwin.
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Charles Darwin is born at The Mount, Shrewsbury to Robert Waring Darwin and Susannah Wedgwood.
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Charles Darwin starts Unitarian day school at the age of eight.
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Charles Darwin attends Shrewsbury School as a boarder but disliked the school. In 1825, Darwin is removed from school and assisted his father during the summer on his doctor’s rounds: That autumn, he started Edinburgh University, with his brother Erasmus, to study medicine.
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Charles Darwin joins the Plinian Society where he meets his most influential mentor, Robert Grant.
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Charles Darwin meets the geologist Lyell for the first time.
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Darwin is elected to the Athenaeum in March 1838, Royal Society In 1839, and then the Council of the Royal Geographical Society.
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Charles Darwin’s Structure and distribution of Coral Reefs is published. Darwin also writes a thirty-five page sketch of evolutionary theory. He then moves with his wife (first cousin) and their first child to Down House. Afterwards, he writes Volcanic Islands and finishes a 231 page manuscript.
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Charles Darwin finished his last book describing the Besgle voyages: Geological Observations on South America.
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Darwin conducts experiments to prove that seeds, plants and animals could reach oceanic islands, where they may produce new species.
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Darwin writes a book called “On the Origin of Species”.
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Darwin publishes “The Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication, The Descent of Man, and Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals”.