Origin of Species Published
November 24, 1859
Twenty years after his Beagle voyage, Charles Darwin finally published his careful, devastating argument that all life had evolved from common ancestors through natural selection. The first print run sold out in a day. Within a generation, no serious science could ignore him - and theology would never be the same.
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- First Oil Well · North America · Technology
- Battle of Solferino · Europe · War
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- Before: 1858: Great Stink of London
- After: March 24, 1860: Treaty of Turin
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Industrial Age (1801–1900), one of 513 events from that era on Saeculum.