charles_darwin

Chronology
1877 9 July: Different Forms of Flowers on Plants of the [68]
Same Species is published.
17 November: Receives an honorary doctoral
degree from Cambridge University.
1878 5 August: Elected a Corresponding Member of the [69]
Academie des sciences.
1879 19 November: Life of Erasmus Darwin is published. [70]
1880 22 November: The Power of Movement in Plants is [71]
published.
1881 10 October: The Formation of Vegetable Mould,
Through the Action of Worms, with Observations on
their Habits is published.
[72]
1882 19 April: Darwin dies at Down House. [74]
26 April: Darwin buried in Westminster Abbey.
1884 6 January: Gregor Mendel dies. (+2)
1885 9 June: Thomas Huxley presents a statue of Darwin (+3)
to the Natural History Museum, London.
1890 1 December: Newly created Darwin Medal of the (+8)
Royal Society is presented to Alfred Russel Wallace.
1895 29 June: Thomas Huxley dies. (+13)
1896 1 October: Emma Darwin dies. (+14)
1900 German botanist Carl Erich Correns, Dutch
botanist Hugo de Vries, and Austrian botanist Erich
Tschermak von Seysenegg, working independently,
obtain results similar to Mendel’s and confirm his
thesis about heredity.
(+18)
1905 23 September: Albert Einstein, in his article ‘‘On
the Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies’’ in the
German physics magazine Annalen der Physik,
postulates the special theory of relativity and, by
using quantum physics, raises the possibility of a
long age for the universe.
1906 January: Henri Poincare’s essay on the dynamics of
the electron is published: written independently of
Einstein, it confirms the special theory of relativity.
(+23)
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