the ledger of connections
The Connections of Charles Darwin
Naturalist whose theory of evolution by natural selection transformed biology Every person recorded alongside Charles Darwin in the archive: family, teachers, students, influences, and the contemporaries who shared the same years.
Family & Connections
People recorded alongside Charles Darwin in the ledgers of the archive.
- Parents
- Robert Darwin, Susannah Wedgwood
- Spouses
- Emma Darwin
- Children
- Anne Darwin, Francis Darwin, William Erasmus Darwin, Henrietta Litchfield, George Howard Darwin, Leonard Darwin, Horace Darwin, Charles Waring Darwin, Elizabeth Darwin, Mary Eleanor Darwin
- Siblings
- Caroline Wedgwood, Emily Darwin, Susan Darwin
- Teachers
- Adam Sedgwick
- Influenced by
- David Hume, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Alexander von Humboldt, Jean-Baptiste Lamarck, Thomas Robert Malthus, John Frederick William Herschel, Herbert Spencer, Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon, Charles Lyell
Alive in the same years
Records in the archive whose lifetimes overlapped the years 1809 to 1882.
Modern era
Hamad I of Bahrain
February 6, 1872 – February 20, 1942
Hakim of Bahrain (1872–1942)
Modern era
Albert I of Belgium
April 8, 1875 – February 17, 1934
King of the Belgians from 1909 to 1934 (1875–1934)
Modern era
Leopold II of Belgium
April 9, 1835 – December 17, 1909
King of the Belgians from 1865 to 1909 (1835–1909)
Modern era
Ugyen Wangchuck
June 11, 1862 – August 21, 1926
King of Bhutan (1862-1926)
Modern era
Hashim Jalilul Alam Aqamaddin of Brunei
1825 – May 10, 1906
Sultan of Brunei (1825-1906)
Modern era
George V
June 3, 1865 – January 20, 1936
King of the United Kingdom from 1910 to 1936
Modern era
Edward VII
November 9, 1841 – May 6, 1910
King of the United Kingdom from 1901 to 1910
Modern era
Konstantin Päts
February 23, 1874 – January 18, 1956
Estonian politician (1874–1956)
Modern era
Ngwane V
1876 – December 10, 1899
Paramount chief of Swaziland (1876–1899)
Modern era
Mbandzeni
1855 – 1889
King of Swaziland (1855–1889)
Modern era
Mswati II
1825 – 1868
King of Swaziland (1825–1868)
Modern era
Emperor Taishō
August 31, 1879 – December 25, 1926
Emperor of Japan from 1912 until 1926