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Charles and Emma Darwin
Charles and Emma Darwin (1840).
(Composite image from two contemporaneous portraits by George Richmond.)

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.

Published 29-Jan-2019
Filed under: Articles Tags: anniversaries, charles darwin, emma darwin (née Wedgwood), religion
Darwin £10 notes

The end of the Darwin tenner

The Charles Darwin £10 note will cease to be legal tender at 23:59 GMT on 1st March 2018. Time to reflect… and to announce our new newsletter.

Published 01-Mar-2018
Filed under: Blog Tags: anniversaries, campaigns, darwin banknote, fitz (nigel longhurst), friends of charles darwin (the)
HMS Beagle
HMS Beagle in the Straits of Magellan

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.

Published 13-Jan-2016
Filed under: Articles Tags: anniversaries, beagle diary, beagle voyage, charles darwin, hms beagle, Robert FitzRoy, south america

02-Mar-2014: The Friends of Charles Darwin are 20 years old today!

The Friends of Charles Darwin were officially founded 20 years ago today, on 2nd March, 1994.

Published 02-Mar-2014
Filed under: Blog Tags: anniversaries, fitz (nigel longhurst), friends of charles darwin (the)
Alfred Russel Wallace
Alfred Russel Wallace

07-Nov-1913: Alfred Russel Wallace dies

On 7th November 1913, the man who independently (along with Charles Darwin) came up with the idea of Natural Selection, Alfred Russel Wallace, died, age 90, at his home in Dorset.

Published 07-Nov-2013
Filed under: Articles Tags: alfred russel wallace, anniversaries, myths
Charles Darwin (1879)

19-Apr-1882: The death of a hero

After decades of mysterious ailments, and a short, final illness, Charles Darwin died at 4 o’clock in the afternoon of Wednesday 19th April 1882, at Down House, Downe, in Kent.

Published 19-Apr-2013
Filed under: Articles Tags: anniversaries, charles darwin, natural history museum, thomas henry huxley

Happy Birthday to us!

The Friends of Charles Darwin came into being 18 years ago today, with the sending of this letter

Published 02-Mar-2012
Filed under: Blog Tags: anniversaries, friends of charles darwin (the)

185 years ago today...

On 22nd May, 1826, His Majesty's Ship 'Beagle' set sail from Plymouth on a surveying voyage to South America.

Published 22-May-2011
Filed under: Blog Tags: anniversaries, beagle voyage, charles darwin, Robert FitzRoy
On the Origin of Species

06-Mar-1860: Darwin on how to read ‘On the Origin of Species’

On 6th March 1860, Charles Darwin advised a scientist he correctly believed to be sceptical of his views how to go about reading ‘On the Origin of Species’.

Published 12-Feb-2011
Filed under: Blog Tags: anniversaries, charles darwin, darwin correspondence, natural selection
Darwin’s fox
Darwin’s fox (Lycalopex fulvipes) cc Prof. Fernando Bórquez Bórquez)

06-Dec-1834: Darwin brains his future eponymous fox

Darwin kills a rare and inquisitive creature, since named after its collector.

Published 17-Jun-2010
Filed under: Articles Tags: anniversaries, beagle voyage, canids, charles darwin, foxes, voyage of the beagle (book)

Darwin's favourite tune

Reminiscing about his father, Charles Darwin's son Francis wrote: In the evening, that is, after he had read as much as his strength would allow, and before the reading aloud began, he would often lie on the sofa and listen to my mother playing the piano. He had not a good ear, yet in spite… Continue reading Darwin's favourite tune

Published 12-Feb-2010
Filed under: Blog Tags: anniversaries, charles darwin, francis darwin, music

400 years of telescopic astronomy

400 years ago today, on 26th July, 1609, the early English scientist Thomas Harriot pointed his new-fangled telescope at the moon and made a drawing.

Published 26-Jul-2009
Filed under: Blog Tags: anniversaries, astronomy, florence, galileo, scientific instruments

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