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Born to Robert Waring Darwin and Susannahnee Wedgwood
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Darwin's Mother Dies
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Darwin attends Samuel Butler's in Shrewbury. The headmaster Samuel Butler was Grandfather of Samuel Butler (1835-1902), he was a scientific writer and one of Darwin's biggest critics.
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Registers for medical courses. His First lecture.
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Takes Henslow's botany classes. Darwin becomes entomologist and collector of beetles.
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Darwin, passes his BA examinations without honors. He remains at Cambridge for 2 terms to fulfill residence requirement.
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Darwin’s father objects to Beagle's voyage, but his uncle, Josiah Wedgwood II, persuades him. Darwin, meets Captain of the Beagle, Robert FitzRoy and makes preparations for the voyage. After two false starts, the ship leaves Plymouth.
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Writes first article.
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First landing on a tropical shore at St Jago, Cape Verde Islands. Field notebooks begin to be used. Begins publishing scientific papers and his first articles.
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Publishes Geological Observations on the Volcanic Islands visited during the Voyage of HMS Beagle. Later followed by Geological Observations on South America and Barnacles.
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Emma and Charles had ten children together. Emma had their first child, Willam Erasmus Darwin, that same year. Emma and Charles were first Cousins.
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Comparing seeds. Trying experiments in salting seeds.
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Darwin begins writing his views for a possible "big book" called 'Natural Selection'.
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On the Origin of Species by means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favored Races in the Struggle for Life is published in London
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Begins to grow a beard after an episode of ill health.
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Darwin, consults medical men about symptoms, ill health continues for 3 years.
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The Descent of Man, and Selection in relation to Sex.http://darwin-online.org.uk/EditorialIntroductions/Freeman_TheDescentofMan.html
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Darwin begins to write an autobiographical memoir for his children and future grandchildren.
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Publishes The Power of Movement in Plants…Assisted by Francis Darwin.
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Darwin, lived to be 73 and is buried at Westminster Abby in London, England.
