On the Origin of Species
1859 · Work
Darwin's book setting out evolution by natural selection.
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Around 1859
- Meiji Restoration (1868)
- Pasteur develops germ theory of disease (1861)
- American Civil War (1861)
- Commodore Perry opens Japan (1853)
- Presidency of Abraham Lincoln (1861)
- British Raj (1858)
- Wars of German Unification (1864)
- Emancipation Proclamation (1863)
- Lister introduces antiseptic surgery (1865)
- Italian unification (Risorgimento) (1859)