Charles Darwin February 12, 1809 to April 19, 1882

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    Darwin natural selection

  • Birth of Charles Darwin

    Charles Darwin February 12, 1809, The Mount House, Shrewsbury, United Kingdom
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    schooling

    Darwin attends Shrewsbury School as a boarder which he despises and described as "narrow and classical".
  • failure

    Darwin is removed from school, being deemed unsuccessful, and spends the summer accompanying his father on his doctor's rounds. That autumn, he is sent to Edinburgh University, with his brother Erasmus, to study medicine.
  • college

    After spending some time brushing up on his forgotten Greek, Darwin enters Christ's College, Cambridge.
  • meeting

    Darwin meets the geologist Lyell for the first time
  • love

    Darwin marries Emma Wedgwood, his first cousin. Their first child, William Erasmus, is born on December 27th.
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    author

    Structure and distribution of Coral Reefs is published,
    Darwin writes a 35 page sketch of evolutionary theory. Darwin write Volcanic Islands. Buoyed by Joseph Dalton Hooker’s response to his earlier drafts of evolutionary theory, Darwin finishes a 231 page manuscript. Robert Chambers publishes Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation, a popularisation of evolution theory. Darwin finishes his last book describing the Beagle voyages: Geological Observations on South America
  • death

    Darwin's eldest daughter Anne dies.
  • experiment

    he began to experiment with seed and water for his theories of natural selection
  • festivities

    Darwin invites Huxley and other naturalists to a weekend party, where they discuss his ideas on the origin of species. After the meeting, he begins writing for publication, encouraged by Lyell, who feared that others might publish the same work before him.
  • book

    He worked on his theory for more than 20 years before publishing it in his famous On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection
  • child development

    Charles Darwin's "Biographical Sketch of an Infant"
  • death

    He died in Downe, United Kingdom