On 29th January 1839, after a short courtship and engagement, Charles Darwin married his cousin Emma Wedgwood at St Peter's Church, Maer, Staffordshire.
(Composite image from two contemporaneous portraits by George Richmond.)
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Evergreen articles for January.
(Composite image from two contemporaneous portraits by George Richmond.)
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
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
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
On 12th January 1836, ‘HMS Beagle’ arrived in Sydney harbour, with Charles Darwin on board.
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’.