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born in London
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They are very talented scientist
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Mary's father died, and Mary and her mother moved back to London from France.
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She began attending lectures at the University of London concerning archaeology and geology.
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She met Louis Leakey while he was giving a talk at the Royal Anthropologist Institute and they fell in love.
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Mary worked on her first archeological excavation
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She traveled to Tanzania to join Louis
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Louis got divorced and married Mary
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Jonathan Harry Erskine Leakey born
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Daughter, Deborah, died
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Richard Erskine Frere Leakey born
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Mary found a Proconsul Africanus skull, an apelike creature dated to the Miocene Era, eighteen million years old.
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Philip, third son, born.
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Mary found the "Zinjanthropus" (Australopithecus Boisei) skull, 1.75 million-year-old fossil, the oldest hominid fossil found to that time.
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Mary and Louis traveled to the United States to receive the Gold Hubbard Medal from the National Geographic Society.
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She earned her first honorary degree from the University of Witwatersrand in Johannesburg.
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Louis died of a heart attack.
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Her team found animal footprints that had been fossilized in volcanic ash.
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Mary's team discovered two short parallel trails of hominid prints extending about eighty feet in the rock and dated at 3.6-million-years-old.
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Mary retired from active fieldwork
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Mary died at age 83
