Scientific acceptance of evolution, timeline
1830 - Publication of Charles Lyell's - Principles of Geology
1831 - Adam Sedgwick (Woodwardian Professor of Geology, Cambridge) recants belief in flood geology
1831-1836 - Voyage of the Beagle
1859 - Publication of On the Origin of Species
1871 - Publication of Descent of Man
1873 - Death of Louis Agassiz, the major American opponent of Darwinian evolution
1876 - Thomas Henry Huxley visits the US.
1882 - Death of Charles Darwin
1925 - Scopes Trial
