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  • 29-Jan-1839: Charles Darwin marries Emma Wedgwood

    29-Jan-1839: Charles Darwin marries Emma Wedgwood

    On 29th January 1839, after a short courtship and engagement, Charles Darwin married his cousin Emma Wedgwood at St Peter’s Church, Maer, Staffordshire.

  • 13-Jan-1833: The day HMS Beagle nearly sank

    13-Jan-1833: The day HMS Beagle nearly sank

    Charles Darwin’s closest brush with death during the Beagle voyage came on Sunday 13th January 1833, near that most infamous of nautical perils, Cape Horn.

  • 10-Jan-1860: Darwin to Lyell

    10-Jan-1860: Darwin to Lyell

    On 10th January 1860, Charles Darwin wrote to his good friend the geologist Charles Lyell, humorously describing mankind’s ancestor.

  • 02-Jan-1860: Whewell sets the right tone

    02-Jan-1860: Whewell sets the right tone

    On 2nd January 1860, the mathematician, science historian, polymath, and coiner of the term ‘scientist’, William Whewell, wrote to Charles Darwin to acknowledge receipt of his copy of the first edition of ‘On the Origin of Species’.

  • 12-Jan-1836: Darwin in the Land of Oz

    12-Jan-1836: Darwin in the Land of Oz

    On 12th January 1836, ‘HMS Beagle’ arrived in Sydney harbour, with Charles Darwin on board.

  • 11-Jan-1844: Darwin confesses murder!

    11-Jan-1844: Darwin confesses murder!

    Darwin comes clean about his heretical views to Joseph Dalton Hooker, humorously likening admitting believing in evolution to ‘confessing a murder’.