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Birth
Gregor Mendel is born in Heinzendorf, Silesia, Austrian Empire, now the town of Hyncice, Czech Republic. -
Talents Discovered
At the age of 11, his schoolmaster recommended he be enrolled in secondary school in Troppau (now Opava, Czeck Republic) due to his eagerness to learn. -
Graduation
Gregor Mendel graduates from the Philosophical Institute of the University of Olmütz where he excelled in the area of math and physics. -
Joining the Monastery
Mendel joined the Augustinian order at the St. Thomas Monastery in Brno. This is where he received his first name of Gregor. This is also where he began to broaden his studies and begin teaching. -
Return to Brno
After years of traveling and studying science, physics, and botany, he returned to the St. Thomas Monastery in Brno where he became a teacher at a secondary school. -
Beginning of Experiments
Mendel begins to test his theories about the passing of traits through hybrid plants. These theories went against the highly accepted idea that hybrid traits in plants would eventually return to their original form. -
Conclusion of Experiments
Mendel concludes his experiments with peas and presented is findings to the Natural Science Society in Brno. -
Research Publication
The Natural Science Society in Brno decided to publish Mendel's findings related to hereditary traits. The findings, however, were not seen as significant. Some scientist argued that it only confirmed the accepted theories at the time. Mendel himself did not recognize that his results brought up any significant new information. -
Death
Gregor Mendel dies in Brünn, Austria-Hungary, now Brno, Czech Republic -
Legacy
By the year 1900, Hugo de Vries, Carl Correns and Erich von Tschermak-Seysenegg all had replicated Mendel's research on their own. They all confirmed Mendel's findings that traits do not necessarily revert back to their "natural" form, and that hybrid plants can be isolated and reliably reproduced. Mendel's research laid the footwork for the selective breeding of plants to create different hybrid species, earning him the name of the "father of modern genetics"