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Evolution Events
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Earthquake in Naples; eruption of Vesuis
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First Public School
Puritans in Massachusats found the first "free grammar school" specifically to teach religion. -
Zoonomia
Charles Darwin's grandfather asks "Would it be too bold to imagine...that all warm-blooded animals have arisen from one common filament?" This helps evolution, then called transmutation, become widely discussed in the scientific community. -
Slavery abolished in French colonies
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Darwin is born
Charles Darwin is born into a family of "freethinkers", but he is born in a very conservative world. Britain is extremely against evolution because evolution is seen as a radical French idea. -
Gauss establishes mathmatical geometry
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Cuvier
French naturalist Georges Cuvier tries to explain newly unearthed fossils. He argues that great catastrophes wiped out ancient life in the distant past. However, Cuvier is against evolution. -
Partial autonomy granted to Serbs by Turkey
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Darwin starts secret notebooks
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First Canadian railroad
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Lord Kelvin calculates the age of Earth
Lord Kelvin calculates the age of Earth -
British parliament repeals the corn law
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Was Neanderthal Man a son of Adam?
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Neanderthal skull found in Germany
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Darwin's foes protest ape-man connection
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Lenoir builds the first practical internal combustion engine
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Darwin buried in Westminster Abbey
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R.L. Stevenson "Treasure Island"
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Mendel's laws of heredity rediscovered
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First test flight of Zepplin