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Charles Darwin

English naturalist and biologist (1809–1882)

11 dated entries naming Charles Darwin, drawn from 10 separate years between 1731 CE and 1859 CE. Nothing here is written by us: each line is the sentence a Wikipedia year article used, and the link beside it opens the exact revision.

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18th century

  • 1731December 12 – Erasmus Darwin, English scientist and grandfather of Charles Darwin (d. 1802)source
  • 1766May 30 – Robert Darwin, medical doctor and father of Charles Darwin (d. 1848)source

19th century

  • 1820May 11 – , the ship that will later take young Charles Darwin on his scientific voyage to examine the "origin of the species", is launched at Woolwich Dockyard.source
  • 1831December 27 – Charles Darwin embarks from Plymouth on the second voyage of HMS Beagle which will be the foundation for his life of scientific study.source
  • 1832February 28 – Charles Darwin and the crew of arrive at South America for the first time.source
  • 1835January 7 – anchors off the Chonos Archipelago on her second voyage, with Charles Darwin on board as a scientist.source
  • 1835September 7 – Charles Darwin arrives at the Galápagos Islands, aboard .source
  • 1836October 2 – Charles Darwin returns to England aboard , with biological data he will later use to develop his theory of evolution, having left South America on August 17.source
  • 1844Robert Chambers' anonymous Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation, which paves the way for acceptance of Charles Darwin's The Origin of Species, is published in Britain.source
  • 1858July 1 – A joint presentation of papers by Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace, announcing a theory of evolution by natural selection, are read at London's Linnean Society.source
  • 1859November 24 – English naturalist Charles Darwin publishes On the Origin of Species, a book which argues for the gradual evolution of species through natural selection (it immediately sells out its initial print run).source

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