Charles Darwin
1809 CE – 1882 CE · 73 years
From a country parson’s path to the most dangerous idea in history — how a seasick naturalist aboard HMS Beagle overturned centuries of certainty and changed our understanding of life itself.
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Landmark
Charyn Canyon
3000 BCE – still standing.svg/500px-Flag_of_Tonga_(1862-1866).svg.png)
Polity
Tuʻi Tonga Empire
Attested 500 CE – 1815 CETrade route
Manila Galleon Return Route
1565 CE – 1815 CEConflict
Kokand Khanate Wars
1709 CE – 1876 CE
Figure · America
John Adams
1735 CE – 1826 CE
Landmark
Lake Issyk-Kul
3000 BCE – still standing
Polity
Kuril Islands
Attested 1800 CE – 1815 CE
Conflict
Russian Conquest of Central Asia
1839 CE – 1895 CEDated moments inside this span
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- John Adams 1809 CE–1826 CE · 18 shared years
Image credits 7 pictures from Wikimedia Commons
- Charles Darwin Charles_Darwin_seated.jpg : Henry Maull (1829–1914) and John Fox (1832–1907) (Maull & Fox… · Public domain
- Charyn Canyon Bgag · CC0
- Flag of Tonga (1862-1866) Thommy · Public domain
- John Adams Gilbert Stuart · Public domain
- Issyk-Kul Қайырқан Әсем · CC BY-SA 4.0
- Kuril Islands Anatoly Gruzevich, VNIRO Russia · Public domain
- Russian conquest of Central Asia Nikolay Karazin · Public domain
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