On the Origin of Species
1859 · Work
Darwin's book setting out evolution by natural selection.
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Around 1859
- Italian unification (Risorgimento) (1859)
- Indian Rebellion of 1857 (1857)
- Meiji Restoration (1868)
- Crimean War (1853)
- Wars of German Unification (1864)
- Taiping Rebellion (1851)
- American Civil War (1861)
- Pasteur develops germ theory of disease (1861)
- Perry Expedition to Japan (1853)
- Presidency of Abraham Lincoln (1861)