Mary Leakey-100th Birthday

1913	(6 February) Mary Douglas Nicol Leakey born in London.
1926	Mary's father died, and Mary and her mother shifted back from France to London.
1930	She started presence lectures at the University of London regarding archaeology and geology.
1933	She met Louis Leakey whereas he was conferring a converse at the Royal Anthropologist Institute.
1934	Mary worked on her former archeological excavation.
1935	She voyaged to Tanzania to bond Louis.
1936	(24 December), Louis and Mary married.
1940	Jonathan Harry Erskine Leakey born.
1943	Daughter, Deborah, died.
1944	Richard Erskine Frere Leakey born.
1948	Mary found a Proconsul Africanus skull, an apelike being out-of-date to the Miocene Era, eighteen million years old.
1949	Philip, third son, born.
1959	Mary originated the "Zinjanthropus" (Australopithecus Boisei) skull, 1.75 million-year-old fossil, the oldest hominid fossil initiated to that time.
1962	Mary and Louis moved to the United States to accept the Gold Hubbard Medal from the National Geographic Society.
1969	She grossed her first amateur degree from the University of Witwatersrand in Johannesburg.
1972	(1 October) Louis died of a heart attack.
1974	Mary instigated excavations at nearby Laetoli.
1976	Her team established animal footprints that had been fossilized in volcanic ash.
1978	Mary's team exposed two small equivalent paths of hominid prints broadening on eighty feet in the rock and out-of-date at 3.6-million-years-old.
1983	Mary withdrew from dynamic fieldwork.
1996	(9 December) Mary Leakey died at age 83.

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