Jane Goodall By lthompson Apr 3, 1934 Valerie Jane Morris Goodall was born Valerie Jane Morris Goodall was born Period: Apr 3, 1934 to Mar 11, 2012 Jane Goodall Apr 3, 1957 Goodall went to a friends farm in Kenya where she had contacted Louis Leakey who then had sent her to Tanzinia. Goodall went to a friends farm in Kenya where she had contacted Louis Leakey who then had sent her to Tanzinia. Jul 14, 1960 Leakey sent Goodall to Gombe stream National Park where she studied free living chimpanzees. Mar 17, 1965 Jane got her PHD in ethnology at Cambridge University Mar 11, 1977 Established the Jane Goodall Institute for wild life resraech, education, and conservation Mar 14, 1991 Jane and 16 Tanzanian students found Roots & Shoots