History of Evolution Timeline

By Th3GinjaNinja1998
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    Darwin and History of Evolution

  • 1st N. American colony established at Jamestown

  • Galileo proves Copernicus' heliocentric theory

  • Pilgrims Land at Plymouth

  • 1641 Charles I of England beheaded

  • A close-up view of "spontaneous generation"

  • Louis XIV begins to centralize his power

  • Jethro Tull invents seeding drill

  • Linnaeus's Systema Naturae charts life

  • Comte de Buffon proposes radical ideas

  • The USA declared independance from Britain

  • James Watt improves steam engine

  • Louis XVI beheaded

  • Erasmus Darwin's Zoonomia heralds evolution

  • Napoleon seizes power

  • Darwin born in a conservative era

  • Lamarck champions evolution

  • Congress of Vienna decides Europe's future

  • Cuvier sees catastrophes in fossil record

  • Lyell describes immense age of Earth

  • Beagle voyage transforms Darwin

  • Factory Act (Britain)

  • Darwin starts secret notebooks

  • Anonymous pamphlet on evolution strikes fury

  • Marx writes the Communist Manifesto

  • Was Neanderthal Man a son of Adam?

  • Wallace provokes Darwin to publish

  • Flint tools spark debate over human evolution

  • On the Origin of Species spurs a revolution

  • Civil War Begins at Ft Sumter

  • Emancipation Proclamation

  • Civil War ends at Appomattox Courthouse

  • Mendel's breakthroughs go unnoticed

  • Evolution accepted

  • Fabulous fossils on display

  • Darwin explores The Descent of Man

  • Unification of Germany and Italy

  • Horse fossils reveal a story of evolution

  • Social Darwinism stirs backlash

  • Radioactivity points to an ancient Earth

  • Mendel's laws of heredity rediscovered

  • First flight accomplished

  • Titanic Disaster

  • Is Piltdown Man a "missing link"?

  • Arch Duke Ferdinand Assassinated, start of World War

  • March Revolution in Russia

  • Treaty of Versailles

  • Taungs "man-like ape" stirs fury

  • Scopes trial puts controversy on center stage

  • U.S. Stock Market Collapse

  • Scopes trial becomes Scopes myth

  • World War 2 begins

  • Neo-Darwinism adds new facts to Darwin's theory

  • First atomic bomb used on Hiroshima

  • DDT resistance is evidence of rapid evolution

  • N.A.T.O. is Founded

  • DNA puzzle solved

  • Can origins of life be glimpsed in a lab?

  • Inherit the Wind reinforces Scopes myth

  • A new view of humans and apes

  • First man on moon

  • Lucy ignites debate over human origins

  • Sociobiology explores origins of behavior

  • DNA codes offer new evidence of evolution

  • Collapse of communism, USSR - end of cold war

  • The euro is established

  • September 11 attacks

  • Human genome reveals human evolution