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Charles Darwin is born to Robert and Susannah Darwin in Shrewsbury, Shropshire
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Darwin attends Edinburgh Medical School and quickly find his class uninteresting and gross, he begins to take an interest in taxidermy
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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
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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
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Darwin publishes his widely controversial (even to this day) book, laying out his thought process and outline of the evolution of man and nature
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Darwin dies with his wife at his side from what is speculated to be Chagas disease
