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Joseph Lister is born in Upton in Essex England.
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Joseph goes to a Quaker school at Hitchin
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Lister enrolls to a Grove House in Tottenham
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Joseph graduates from University College in London
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Joseph writes two newspapers called "Observations on the Contractile Tissue of the Iris" and "Observations on the Muscular Tissue of the Skin.
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Joseph marries his professors daugter
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Starts work at Glasgow Royal Infirmary
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Antiseptic surgery is introduced
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Gets knighted
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Becomes chairman of the British Institute of Preventive Medicine
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Retires from life as a scientist