CHARLES DARWIN EVOLUTION

By lingma949
  • Period: Jan 1, 1543 to

    charles darwin evolution

  • FIRST PUBLIC SCHOOL PROMOTES CHRISTIANITY

  • Bishop Ussher pinpoints Creation at 4004 B.C. (c. 1650)

  • A close-up view of "spontaneous generation" (c. 1660)

  • Linnaeus's Systema Naturae charts life (c. 1735)

  • Comte de Buffon proposes radical ideas (c. 1749)

  • atural Theology views God through nature (1802)

  • Darwin born in a conservative era (1809)

  • Cuvier sees catastrophes in fossil record (c. 1817)

  • Lyell describes immense age of Earth (c. 1830)

  • Beagle voyage transforms Darwin (1831-1836)

  • Anonymous pamphlet on evolution strikes fury (1844)

  • Lord Kelvin calculates the age of Earth (c. 1846)

  • In Memoriam's poetic cry for God (1850

  • Was Neanderthal Man a son of Adam? (1856)

  • Was Neanderthal Man a son of Adam? (1856)

  • Wallace provokes Darwin to publish (1858)

  • Flint tools spark debate over human evolution (1858)

  • On the Origin of Species spurs a revolution (1859)

  • Darwin's foes protest ape-man connection (1860)

  • Mendel's breakthroughs go unnoticed (1865)

  • Darwin explores The Descent of Man (1871)

  • Warfare between science & Christianity? (c. 1876)

  • Horse fossils reveal a story of evolution (c. 1876)

  • Social Darwinism stirs backlash (c. 1880-1920)

  • Darwin buried in Westminster Abbey (1882)

  • Theistic evolution stresses God's role (c. 1887)

  • Radioactivity points to an ancient Earth (c. 1896)

  • Mendel's laws of heredity rediscovered (c. 1900)

  • Public high schools spread through U.S. (c. 1900-1920)

  • The Fundamentals launches a new movement (1905 -1915)

  • Conservative Christians flock to the WCFA (1919)

  • First anti-evolution bills passed (1923)

  • Tennessee law bans teaching human evolution (spring 1925)

  • Erasmus Darwin's Zoonomia heralds evolution (1794)