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