 While Elizabeth Blackwell was living her amazing life, there was also more going on in the world. The timeline has from the life of Charles Darwin to the start of the Canadian Confederation. Charles Darwin- was an English Naturalist who realised and demonstrated that all species of life have evolved over time from common ancestors through the process he called natural selection. Louis Pasteur-was a French chemist and microbiologist best known for his remarkable breakthroughs in the causes and prevention of disease. Queen Victoria- was from 20 June 1837 the Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britan and Ireland and from 1 May 1876 the first Empress of India of the British Raj until her death. Her reign as the Queen lasted 63 years and 7 months, longer than that of any other British monarch to date. Robert Koch-was a German physician. He became famous for isolating Bacillus Antracis, the tuberculosis bacillus and the vibrio chloera and for his development of Koch's Postulates. Thomas Edison-was an American inventor and buisnessman who developed many devices that greatly influenced life around the world, including the phonograph and the long-lasting, practical electric light bulb. Sigmund Freud-was an Austrian phychatrist who founded the psychoanalytic school of phychology. | 
1809–1882: Lifetime of Charles Darwin. 1822–1895: Lifetime of Louis Pasteur. 1833: Slavery Abolition Act bans slavery in the British Empire. 1837–1901: Reign of Queen Victoria. 1843–1910: Lifetime of Robert Koch. 1847–1931: Lifetime of Thomas Edison. 1854–1856: Crimean War between France, the United Kingdom, the Ottoman Empire, and Russia. 1856–1939: Lifetime of Sigmund Freud. 1861–1865: American Civil War. 1867: Canadian Confederation. |
