Contribution to Evolution By katerynaaaa Sep 7, 1707 Birth of Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon Jun 3, 1726 Birth of James Hutton Dec 12, 1731 Birth of Erasmus Darwin Aug 1, 1744 Birth of Jean-Baptiste Lamarck Jan 1, 1749 First volume of "Histoire naturelle" was published by Georges-Louis Leclerc Jan 1, 1788 Theory of the Earth was published by James Hutton Jan 1, 1794 Zoonomia published by Erasmus Darwin Nov 14, 1797 Birth of Charles Lyell Jan 1, 1801 Jean-Baptiste Lamarck published Système des animaux sans vertèbres Feb 12, 1809 Birth of Charles Darwin Dec 27, 1822 Birth of Louis Pasteur Jan 1, 1830 Principles of Geology is published by Charles Lyell Nov 24, 1859 The Origin of Species was first published by Charls Darwin Apr 20, 1862 Louis Pasteur completed the first test on pasteurization