Charles darwin biography timeline info
Charles darwin biography timeline info
Charles darwin!
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1809-12 February Born at Shrewsbury.
1818 begins schooling at Shrewsbury School.
1825-27 Attends Edinburgh University.
1827 27 March Contributed two scientific papers to the radical student Plinian Society.
1827-31 Attends Christ's College, Cambridge University (image).
1829 Entomological tour of northern Wales with Prof.
F.W. Hope.
1831 August Geological tour of North Wales with Prof. Adam Sedgwick.
1831 29 August Receives letter with offer to sail on H.M.S.
Charles darwin biography
Beagle.
1831 27 December H.M.S. Beagle sails from Devonport.
1832 23 September Darwin finds his first significant fossils.
1835 September studies the natural history of the Galapagos Islands.
1836 2 October H.M.S.
Beagle returns to England.
1837 31 May Reads his theoretical paper on coral reef formation to London Geological Society.
1837 Begins first notebook on "Transmutation of