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Charles Robert Darwin FRS was an English naturalist. He established that all species of life have descended over time from common ancestry, and proposed the scientific theory that this branching pattern of evolution resulted from a process that he called natural selection.He published his theory with compelling evidence for...

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1820

5.11.1820

Launch of HMS Beagle, the ship that took Charles Darwin on his scientific voyage.

1831

8.24.1831

Charles Darwin is asked to travel on HMS Beagle.

12.27.1831

Charles Darwin embarks on his journey aboard the HMS ''Beagle'', during which he will begin to formulate the theory of evolution.

1835

9.15.1835

HMS Beagle, with Charles Darwin aboard, reaches the Galápagos Islands.

1858

6.18.1858

Charles Darwin receives a paper from Alfred Russel Wallace that includes nearly identical conclusions about evolution as Darwin's own, prompting Darwin to publish his theory.

7.1.1858

Joint reading of Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace's papers on evolution to the Linnean Society.

8.20.1858

Charles Darwin first publishes his theory of evolution through natural selection in ''The Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society of London'', alongside Alfred Russel Wallace's same theory.

1859

11.24.1859

Charles Darwin publishes ''On the Origin of Species''.

1925

5.25.1925

Scopes Trial: John T. Scopes is indicted for teaching Charles Darwin's theory of evolution.