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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 after finding his love of science follows his fathers advice and enters Christ's College, Cambridge.
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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, Charles. The Voyage of the Beagle. 1839
Darwin's book documenting his travel and discoveries of the Galapagos islands is written. -
Darwin finishes a 231 page manuscript on his earlier drafts of evolutionary theory. Therein creating the original " Darwin's Theory of Evolution"
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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. In an attempt to prove Darwin's law true.
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After a heart attack on Christmas, followed by seizures, Charles Darwin dies, in great suffering, at Down House. He is later buried in Westminster Abbey. With this the great knowledge of a beloved man is ended.