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<!DOCTYPE html>
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<h1 id="title">Charles Darwin</h1>
<p>The father of evolution</p>
<figure id="img-div">
<img
id="image"
src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2e/Charles_Darwin_seated_crop.jpg/800px-Charles_Darwin_seated_crop.jpg"
alt="Three quarter length studio photo showing Darwin's characteristic large forehead
and bushy eyebrows with deep set eyes, pug nose and mouth set in a determined look.
He is bald on top, with dark hair and long side whiskers but no beard or moustache.
His jacket is dark, with very wide lapels, and his trousers are a light check pattern.
His shirt has an upright wing collar, and his cravat is tucked into his waistcoat
which is a light fine checked pattern."
/>
<figcaption id="img-caption">
Charles Darwin shown seated in a chair.
</figcaption>
</figure>
<section id="tribute-info">
<h3 id="headline">Here's a time line of Darwin's life:</h3>
<ul>
<li><strong>1809</strong> - Born in Shropshire, England</li>
<li>
<strong>1817</strong> - Attends day school in Shrewsbury run by George Case, Unitarian minister.
His mother dies.
</li>
<li>
<strong>1818</strong> - In June goes to Samuel Butler’s school at Shrewsbury as a boarder (stayed 7 years).
Butler was the grandfather of Samuel Butler (1835-1902) the science writer and critic of Darwinism.
</li>
<li>
<strong>1825</strong> - Darwin spent this summer as an apprentice doctor,
helping his father treat the poor of Shropshire,
before going to the University of Edinburgh Medical School (at the time the best
medical school in the UK) with his brother Erasmus.
</li>
<li>
<strong>1827</strong> - On 15 October is admitted to Christ’s College, University of Cambridge,
but does not move there until January 1828. Reads for an ordinary degree, the usual preliminary
for theological training (which was never undertaken).
</li>
<li>
<strong>1831</strong> - Passes his BA examinations on 22 January without honours and remains at Cambridge
for a further two terms to fulfill residence requirement. Spends much time with John Stevens Henslow, and in August accompanies
Adam Sedgwick, Professor of Geology, on his annual field trip to Wales. In August he returns to Shrewsbury from Wales
to find a letter from Henslow inviting him to join the Beagle voyage. Darwin’s father objects, but his uncle, Josiah Wedgwood II,
persuades him otherwise. Meets Captain Robert FitzRoy (1805-65) and makes preparations for the voyage. Begins Beagle diary.
After two false starts, the ship leaves Plymouth on 27 December.
</li>
<li>
<strong>1835</strong> - Spends February in Valdivia and early March in Concepcion, makes long excursion northwards
from March to September, calling at Copiapo, Iquique and Callao. Beagle departs Lima on 7 September for the
Galapagos Archipelago. Darwin spends 16 September to 20 October exploring the archipelago, 15-26 November in Tahiti,
21-30 November in New Zealand. December Henslow prints extracts from his letters.
</li>
<li>
<strong>1836</strong> - Beagle calls at Sydney in January, Hobart in February, Cocos and Keeling Islands in April,
followed by Mauritius. Visits Cape of Good Hope from 31 May to 18 June. Writes first article to be published with
Fitzroy. The ship makes way across Atlantic ocean calling at St Helena and Ascension Islands in July. Returns briefly
to Brazil in August to check some readings. Calls at Azores in September. 2 October, Beagle drops anchor at Falmouth,
England, and on 4 October Darwin returns home to Shrewsbury. Begins to publish scientific papers.
</li>
<li>
<strong>1837</strong> - In March takes lodgings in 36 Great Marlborough Street, London. Gives papers at the Geological
Society of London. Arranges for his Beagle specimens to be identified. Begins publication of The Zoology of the Voyage
of the Beagle (1838-43). Becomes friendly with the geologist Charles Lyell. The naturalist John Gould identifies his
bird specimens. In July opens his first notebook on the transmutation of species.
</li>
<li>
<strong>1839</strong> - Marries Emma Wedgwood on 29 January. Publishes Journal of Researches, later known as Voyage
of the Beagle. Elected a Fellow of the Royal Society. First child, a son William, is born. He and Emma eventually have
ten children, seven of whom reach adulthood. Disseminates Questions about the breeding of animals.
</li>
<li>
<strong>1859</strong> - On the Origin of Species by means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races
in the Struggle for Life is published in London on 24 November by John Murray.
</li>
<li>
<strong>1864</strong> - In November awarded the Copley medal of the Royal Society of London, its highest scientific honour.
</li>
<li><strong>1871</strong> - Publishes The Descent of Man, and Selection in relation to Sex. Engages in dispute with St George Mivart,
adds a new chapter to sixth edition of Origin of Species to rebut Mivart’s claims. Daughter Henrietta marries Richard Litchfield
and moves to Bryanston Street in London where Darwin becomes a regular visitor.
</li>
<li>
<strong>1875</strong> - Publishes Insectivorous Plants. Gives evidence to the Royal Commission on Subjecting Live Animals to Experiments.
Sits to the portrait painter Walter William Ouless, for the family. A copy later made by Ouless for Christ’s College, Cambridge, etched
by Paul Rajon. ‘I look a very venerable, acute melancholy old dog’.
</li>
<li>
<strong>1876</strong> - During the summer begins to write an autobiographical memoir for his children and future grandchildren. ‘I know
that it would have interested me greatly to have read even so short and dull a sketch of the mind of my grandfather written by himself,
and what he thought and did, and how he worked.’ This memoir published in edited form in Francis Darwin’s Life and Letters of Charles Darwin
(1887) Publishes The Effects of Cross and Self Fertilisation in the Vegetable Kingdom. In September Darwin’s first grandchild is born to
Francis and Amy Darwin. Amy dies in childbirth and Francis goes to live with his parents at Down House with the baby, Bernard Darwin.
Francis becomes Darwin’s secretary and botanical assistant.
</li>
<li>
<strong>1880</strong> - Publishes The Power of Movement in Plants…Assisted by Francis Darwin.
</li>
<li><strong>1882</strong> - Dies 19 April, aged seventy-three. Buried in Westminster Abbey, 26 April.</li>
</ul>
<blockquote
cite="https://victorianweb.org/science/darwin/religion2.html"
>
<p>
"I cannot pretend to throw the least light on such abstruse problems. The mystery of the beginning of all things is insoluble by us; and I for one must be content to remain an Agnostic."
</p>
<cite>-- Charles Darwin</cite>
</blockquote>
<h3>
If you have time, you should read more about this incredible human
being on his
<a
id="tribute-link"
href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Darwin"
target="_blank"
>Wikipedia entry</a
>.
</h3>
</section>
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