Charles Darwin

  • Birth of Darwin

    Charles Darwin is born to Robert and Susannah Darwin in Shrewsbury, Shropshire
  • Darwin enters college

    Darwin attends Edinburgh Medical School and quickly find his class uninteresting and gross, he begins to take an interest in taxidermy
  • Transfer

    Annoyed with his son's disdain for medical research Darwin's father enrolls him at Christ's College to pursue a Bachelor of Arts. Darwin instead pursues an Ordinary degree and develops a love for Entomology and natural sciences
  • A journey of a lifetime

    Darwin embarks on a 5 year voyage aboard the HMS Beagle, on this journey Darwin experiences and observes geological and natural phenomena through Africa and South America
  • On the Origin of Species

    On the Origin of Species
    Darwin publishes his widely controversial (even to this day) book, laying out his thought process and outline of the evolution of man and nature
  • Death of Darwin

    Darwin dies with his wife at his side from what is speculated to be Chagas disease