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Born in Shrewsbury, England, the son of Robert Waring Darwin and Susannah
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Meets Captain Robert FitzRoy (1805-65) and makes preparations for the voyage. Begins Beagle diary. After two false starts, the ship leaves Plymouth
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Survey of South American Coast from February 1832 to May 1834.
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Visits Galapagos islands from September to October
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Voyage of the HMS Beagle ends
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Begins publication of The Zoology of the Voyage of the Beagle (1838-43). The naturalist John Gould identifies his bird specimens.
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Becomes friendly with the geologist Charles Lyell, a Geologist that stated the Earth's continents changed/moved little by little
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Darwin read T. R. Malthus Essay on the Principle of Population (1798).
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Marries Emma Wedgwood
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Publishes Journal of Researches, later known as Voyage of the Beagle.
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First child, a son William, is born. He and Emma eventually have ten children, seven of whom reach adulthood.
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Daugher Annie dies of fever.
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Receives a letter from Alfred Russel Wallace who is collecting specimens in Indonesia. Wallace encloses an essay on species and varieties that mirrors Darwin’s own theory of natural selection.
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Extracts from Darwin and Wallace’s writings presented by Charles Lyell and Joseph Hooker at the Linnean Society of London
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On the Origin of Species by means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life is published in London
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Awarded the Copley medal of the Royal Society of London, its highest scientific honor. Tis has been awarded to people such as Benjamin Franklin, Albert Einstein, and Stephen Hawking
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Publishes The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication.
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Publishes The Descent of Man, and Selection in relation to Sex.
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Seventy-three years old at death
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Burried at Westminster Abbey near Sir Issac Newton. Wanted to be burried in Parish church yard.
