12 February
1809—born at Shrewsbury, England
October 1825—enters
Edinburgh University to study medicine
October
1827—transfers to Cambridge University to study for the
ministry
April 1831—BA
degree from Cambridge
Summer
1831—"geologizing" with Rev. Adam Sedgwick in
Wales
August
1831—receives invitation to sail as naturalist on HMS
Beagle
27 December 1831—Beagle
leaves Plymouth, England
2 October
1836—Beagle returns to England
July 1837—starts his first
"transmutation" notebook
October 1838—reads
Rev. Thomas Mathus's " Population: the First
Essay"
January
1839—elected to the Royal Society; marries Emma
Wedgwood
August 1839—Beagle
journal published
May 1842—35-page
written sketch on species
September
1842—settles permanently at Down, in
Kent
July 1844—230-page
written essay on species
June 1858—receives letter from Alfred
Russel Wallace on species
July 1858—Darwin
and Wallace papers presented (in absentia) before Linnean
Society
24 November 1859—On
the Origin of Species published
February
1871—Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex
published
October
1881—monograph on worms published
19 April 1882—dies at Down
House
26 April
1882—buried in Westminster Abbey
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