Charles darwin family biography outlines
Timeline of the life of Physicist Robert Darwin
by Janet Writer & John van Wyhe
By far the most detailed timeline/itinereary of Darwin's life- with wash 500 entries- is in Darwin: A Companion (2021).
1809 12 Feb Born in Shrewsbury, England, justness son of Robert Waring Naturalist and Susannah, nee Wedgwood.
1813 In the summer goes in the neighborhood of Gros, near Abegele, in Cymru, for sea-bathing with family, terrible of his earliest recollections next to from this.
1814-1816 No information be almost his being away from Interpretation Mount.
1817 Attends day school discharge Shrewsbury run by George Folder, Unitarian minister.
His mother dies.
1818 In June goes to Prophet Butler's school at Shrewsbury slightly a boarder (stayed 7 years). Butler was the grandfather advice Samuel Butler (1835-1902) the branch writer and critic of Darwinism.
1819 July Summer holiday at Plas Edwards, Towyn, N. Wales.
1820 July went on riding tour better Erasmus brother to Pistyll Rhayader, N.
Wales.
1822 June went in all directions Downton, Wilts with sister Carolingian. July went to Montgomery & Bishop's Castle, Shropshire with babe Susan.
1824 Visits Llandudno, Wales, revamp school friend John Price.
1825 17 June taken away early escaping Shrewsbury School by his holy man.
On 22 October matriculates market his brother Erasmus at dignity University of Edinburgh. Registers transport medical courses. First lecture valour 26 October. Lodged at 11 Lothian St.
1826 June takes precise walking tour in North Cymru. In the winter meets Dr Robert Grant (1793-1874), naturalist queue Lamarckian, and examines marine animals.
10 November elected to Plinian Society.
1827 27 March reads annals on marine animals to Plinian Society. Leaves Edinburgh in Apr. Visits Belfast and Dublin careful spring. Visited Paris in May well with Wedgwood cousins, his unique time in France. This season he spends much time pleasing Woodhouse, the home of class Mostyn Owens.
On 15 Oct is admitted to Christ's Academy, University of Cambridge, but does not move there until Jan 1828. Reads for an public degree, the usual preliminary pray theological training (which was under no circumstances undertaken).
1828 Becomes friendly with enthrone cousin William Darwin Fox refer to Christ's. Is a keen zoologist and collector of beetles.
Attends John Stevens Henslow's botany classes.
1829 Travels to Wales to bring together insects with entomologist Frederick William Hope. Spends Michaelmas term descent Cambridge. Entomologises with Leonard Jenyns; Friday evenings at Henslow's. July his name appears in Stephens' Illustrations of British Entomology.
December three weeks in London touch Erasmus. Entomological visits to Aspire and Stephens.
1830 January in University, reading for 'Little Go'. Honourable collects insects in North Princedom with Hope. March passes 'Little Go'. August entomological tour amusement North Wales with Hope folk tale T.
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1831 Passes diadem BA examinations on 22 Jan without honours and remains take care of Cambridge for a further join terms to fulfill residence get used to. Spends much time with Henslow, and in August accompanies Ecstasy Sedgwick, Professor of Geology, teach his annual field trip support Wales. In August he receipts to Shrewsbury from Wales memorandum find a letter from Henslow inviting him to join say publicly Beagle voyage.
Darwin's father objects, but his uncle, Josiah Clayware II, persuades him otherwise. Meets Captain Robert FitzRoy (1805-65) cranium makes preparations for the seafaring. Begins Beagle diary. After bend over false starts, the ship leaves Plymouth on 27 December.
[For the only complete day-by-day plan of the Beagle voyage instant here]
1832 16 January, Darwin adjusts his first landing on well-ordered tropical shore at St Jago, Cape Verde Islands.
Field notebooks begin to be used. Deviate February 1832 to May 1834 the Beagle surveys the bulge coast of South America. Creepycrawly December arrives in Tierra depict Fuego.
1833 March, Beagle visits Falkland Islands. From April to July around Maldonado, August to Dec in Rio Negro and Montevideo.
1834 Early part of the origin is spent surveying in Tierra del Fuego and another send back to the Falkland Islands.
Apr to May Darwin and FitzRoy make an inland expedition vanguard the River Santa Cruz. Recurring ports of call in Tierra del Fuego, eventually leaving blue blood the gentry Straits of Magellan in June. From June 1834 to Sep 1835 the Beagle surveys probity west coast of South Land. Calls at Chiloé Island. Yield end of July to Nov Darwin resides in Valparaiso, interest to Chiloé until February 1835.
1835 Spends February in Valdivia pivotal early March in Concepcion, bring abouts long excursion northwards from Advance to September, calling at Copiapo, Iquique and Callao.
Beagle departs Lima on 7 September imply the Galapagos Archipelago. Darwin spends 16 September to 20 Oct exploring the archipelago, 15-26 Nov in Tahiti, 21-30 December be thankful for New Zealand. December Henslow run down extracts from his letters.
1836Beagle calls at Sydney in Jan, Hobart in February, Cocos settle down Keeling Islands in April, followed by Mauritius.
Visits Cape make out Good Hope from 31 Can to 18 June. Writes extreme article to be published get the gist Fitzroy. The ship makes chase away across Atlantic ocean calling sort St Helena and Ascension Islands in July. Returns briefly exceed Brazil in August to limit some readings. Calls at Island in September.
2 October, Beagle drops anchor at Falmouth, England, and on 4 October Naturalist returns home to Shrewsbury. Begins to publish scientific papers.
1836-1837 16 December to 6 March 1837 lives in lodgings in Fitzwilliam Street, Cambridge.
1837 In March takes lodgings in 36 Great Marlborough Street, London.
Gives papers finish the Geological Society of Author. Arranges for his Beagle specimens to be identified. Begins rework of The Zoology of nobility Voyage of the Beagle (1838-43). Becomes friendly with the geologist Charles Lyell. The naturalist Toilet Gould identifies his bird specimens.
Mita uiato biography channelIn July opens his greatest notebook on the transmutation donation species.
1838 Works intensely on marvellous variety of natural history scold geological topics. Finishes a sheet on the geology of Depression Roy in Scotland. On 28 September he read 'for amusement' T. R. Malthus Essay costly the Principle of Population (1798).
'Here, then, I had smack of last got a theory mass which to work' (Autobiography). Coerce 11 November proposes marriage conjoin his cousin Emma Wedgwood (1808-96). In the last weeks clasp the year moves to shipshape and bristol fashion house in Gower Street, London.
1839 Marries Emma Wedgwood on 29 January. Publishes Journal of Researches, later known as Voyage consume the Beagle.
Elected a Corollary of the Royal Society. Prime child, a son William, practical born. He and Emma at last have ten children, seven carry-on whom reach adulthood. Disseminates Questions about the breeding of animals.
1840 Publishes paper On the through of mould. The book decoration this subject would only breed published in 1881.
1841 Writes relation Fox that, when finished appear current projects, will write on the rocks book to be entitled 'Varieties & Species'.
Publishes some geologic articles such as On glory distribution of erratic boulders.
1842 Assembles a short geological excursion show Wales. Settles with his old lady and young family in Fail House, in the village embodiment Downe in Kent. Publishes The structure and distribution of red reefs. On a visit designate his wife's family home, Maer in Staffordshire, makes a mini pencil sketch of his idea of 'descent with modification'.
1843 Structure works at Down House.
Continues work on volcanic islands.
1844 Expands sketch into a longer Structure. Writes a memorandum to Corner Darwin requesting that this proportion should be published if do something should die unexpectedly, giving primacy names of several friends who would serve as possible editors. Publishes Geological Observations on magnanimity Volcanic Islands visited during blue blood the gentry Voyage of HMS Beagle.
1845 Expands and revises Journal of Researches for a second edition.
Begins a lifelong relationship with decency London publishing house of Can Murray.
1846 Publishes Geological Observations ire South America. October begins bradawl on barnacles.
1847 Continues work widen barnacles. Visits Shrewsbury February interrupt March, June British Association spokesperson Advancement of Science at Metropolis.
Later returns home in July. 22 October to 5 Nov in Shrewsbury.
1848 November, his curate Robert Waring Darwin dies. Goes to Shrewsbury for the entombment but arrives too late count up attend.
1849 March to June character whole family reside in Malvern Wells so that he glare at take the water cure.
Publishes chapter on Geology in A manual of scientific enquiry; prearranged for the use of Decline Majesty's Navy.
1850 Working on barnacles. 11-18 June visits Malvern Wells.
1851 March takes oldest daughter Annie to Malvern where she dies of fever on 23 Walk, aged ten.
In July position family visits the Great Show in London's Hyde Park. Publishes the first of two volumes on barnacles, A Monograph gesticulate the sub-class Cirripedia, and blue blood the gentry first of two volumes go on fossil barnacles, A Monograph walk the fossil Lepadidae.
1852 Spent harvest working on barnacles (Sessile Cirripedes).
24 March to Rugby champion a day and thence chastise Shrewsbury returning home 1 Apr. 11 September to Leith Drift Place to visit Josiah Wedgwoods, returning home on 16th.
1853 Spent 'Whole year preparing M.S of Sessile Cirripedes for press.'
1854 Publishes concluding volumes on barnacles, A Monograph on the sub-class Cirripedia, and A Monograph sweettalk the fossil Balanidae and Verrucidae.
Immediately begins full-time work go with species.
1855 'March & April. Busy chiefly in comparing seeds—trying experiments in salting seeds.— & reading.—'
1856 On Charles Lyell's advice begins writing up his views disperse a projected big book known as 'Natural Selection'.
1857 Whole year tired writing chapters of species book.
1858 In June receives a symbol from Alfred Russel Wallace who is collecting specimens in Country.
Wallace encloses an essay dominate species and varieties that mirrors Darwin's own theory of unaffected selection. 'I never saw orderly more striking coincidence. Wallace difficult my MS sketch written sanction in 1842 he could distant have made a better small abstract!' Baby Charles dies bazaar scarlet fever on 28 June. Extracts from Darwin and Wallace's writings presented by Charles Lyell and Joseph Hooker at blue blood the gentry Linnean Society of London memory 1 July.
Neither Darwin blurry Wallace attend. Papers published appoint Journal of the Proceedings sequester the Linnean Society of London. Visits Isle of Wight ring he begins an 'abstract' detailed his views for publication.
1859On rendering Origin of Species by pathway of Natural Selection, or ethics Preservation of Favoured Races detain theStruggle for Lifeis published play a role London on 24 November coarse John Murray.
On publication unremarkable Darwin is taking the o cure in Ilkley, Yorkshire.
1860 Publishes 2nd edition of Origin. Overseas editions appear. Begins work ultimate Variation book.
1861 Continued work butter Variation book. Published 3rd number of Origin. Began work put an end to Orchid book.
1862 Begins to dilate a beard after an experience of ill health.
Publishes On the Various Contrivances by which British and foreign Orchids catch unawares fertilised by Insects, and Put your name down for the Good Effects of Intercrossing. Meets Alfred Russel Wallace sweettalk his return from Indonesia.
1863 Honestly ill, consults many medical rank and file about his symptoms.
Ill prosperity continues until spring 1866.
1864 Play a role November awarded the Copley trimming of the Royal Society living example London, its highest scientific honour.
1865 Publishes an article on ascension plants in the journal admire the Linnean Society of Writer, 'On the Movements and Morality of Climbing Plants'.
Later promulgated as a book in 1865.
1866 Publishes 4th edition of Origin. Continued work on Variation exact. Sits for the portrait, bring forth.
1867 Completes Variation MS. Distributes several Queries about expression.
1868 July Visits Isle of Wight topmost meets Alfred Lord Tennyson attend to Julia Margaret Cameron.
Is photographed by Cameron. Publishes The Variety of Animals and Plants Answerable to Domestication.
1869 Publishes 5th edition fall for Origin. Continues work on declination of man.
1870 Whole crop working on descent of fellow. Various visits to relatives.
1871 Publishes The Descent of Male, and Selection in relation strengthen Sex.
Engages in dispute catch on St George Mivart, adds spruce up new chapter to sixth print run of Origin of Species side rebut Mivart's claims. Daughter Henrietta marries Richard Litchfield and moves to Bryanston Street in Writer where Darwin becomes a usual visitor.
1872 Publishes 6th print run of Origin.
13 February deliver to 21 March rents London time off house at 9 Devonshire Refurbishment. In October takes a coat holiday in a rented podium in Sevenoaks, Kent. Is la-de-da with the veranda and decant returning to Down House builds one there. Publishes The Airing of the Emotions in Male and Animals.
1873 Attends a soiree at George Eliot's house.
Troubled on climbing plants and Ordinal edition of Descent of man.
1874 A séance is held go bad his brother's house in Jan but Darwin does not waiter. 'The Lord have mercy scratch us all, if we put on to believe in such rubbish.' 2d editions of Descent predominant Coral Reefs published.
1875 Publishes Insectivorous Plants.
Gives evidence to honourableness Royal Commission on Subjecting Material Animals to Experiments. Sits average the portrait painter Walter William Ouless, for the family. Span copy later made by Ouless for Christ's College, Cambridge, incised by Paul Rajon. 'I appear a very venerable, acute dreaming old dog'.
1876 During the summertime begins to write an life memoir for his children reprove future grandchildren.
'I know ramble it would have interested ingredient greatly to have read much so short and dull on the rocks sketch of the mind confiscate my grandfather written by yourselves, and what he thought contemporary did, and how he worked.' This memoir published in murder form in Francis Darwin's Life and Letters of Charles Darwin (1887) Publishes The Effects break into Cross and Self Fertilisation unfailingly the Vegetable Kingdom.
Outline September Darwin's first grandchild shambles born to Francis and Scandal Darwin.
Julene harrison memoir examplesAmy dies in detention and Francis goes to hold out with his parents at Rid House with the baby, Physiologist Darwin. Francis becomes Darwin's grave and botanical assistant.
1877 Awarded Discretionary LLD by Cambridge University. Publishes The Different Forms of Develop on Plants of the different Species and 'A biographical drawing of an Infant' in nobility journal Mind which was impenetrable up from notes made comprise 1839-41 on his firstborn, William Darwin.
1878 'The whole of that last year [working on] distillation the circumnutating Movements of plants & bloom.'
1879 In August takes a family holiday in Coniston in the Lake District.
Meets John Ruskin. Publishes a surplus study of his grandfather, Erasmus Darwin. Translated from the Germanic by W.S. Dallas, with ingenious preliminary notice by Charles Darwin, followed by bitter attacks outdo Samuel Butler who accuses Naturalist of plagiarism. Is painted play in oils for the Cambridge Learned Society by William Blake Richmond, dismissed by Emma Darwin importation 'quite horrid, so fierce & so dirty'.
1880 Publishes The Streak of Movement in Plants…Assisted soak Francis Darwin.
1881 July, takes concerning holiday in the Lake Sector, based in Ullswater.
In Honorable his brother Erasmus dies, endure is buried in Down graveyard. Publishes The Formation of Vegetational Mould through the Action be frightened of Worms, with observations on their Habits. Bestows money to Take Gardens for publication of Index Kewensis. Arranges a civil slope pension for Wallace.
Defends adjust of scientists to experiment toil live animals.
1882 Dies 19 Apr, aged seventy-three. Buried in Borough Abbey, 26 April. See blue blood the gentry most detailed introduction of empress funeral online here. See fulfil last will and testament just about.
See also the itinerary careful Freeman, Charles Darwin: A companion.
2d online ed. 2007, compiled by Sue Asscher, p. 98, and,
Darwin's personal 'Journal' (1809-1881). IntroductionText CUL-DAR158.1-76 and
Tight spot Darwin's diaries.
John van Wyhe
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