On April 3, 1934, Jane Goodall was born to Mortimer-Herbert Morris Goodall and Margaret Myfanwe Joseph in London, England. A lifelike chimpanzee toy she got as a child started her early fondness for chimpanzees.
Invited by a friend, Goodall was brought to a farm to serve as a secretary to her in the Kenyan highlands.
Not much later, Louis Leakey, a Kenyan archaeologist and palaeontologist, hired Goodall as his own secretary. He kept his idea as hiring her as a chimp researcher secret.
Goodall and her mother traveled and arrived at Gombe Stream chimp reserve in western Tanzania.
At Gombe, Goodall observed the chimps and made an important discovery. She found out that chimps also made tools using resources and materials from nature. Before that, people thought that only humans made tools and built things.
Goodall was accepted at Cambridge University as a Ph.D candidate, although she had no university degree.
Goodall earned a Ph.D in ethology from Cambridge University.
Goodall married wildlife photographer and filmmaker Hugo van Lawick on this day.
Goodall married Derek Bryceson, director of Tanzania National Parks.
Goodall founds the Jane Goodall Institute for Wildlife Research, Education, and Conservation.
Goodall loses her husband Derek Bryceson to cancer.
Goodall starts ground work for the Chimpanzoo Program.
Gooodall and a 16 Tanzanian students found Roots and Shoots, a global environment and humanitarian education program for youth.
Goodall founds TACARE, Lake Tanganyika Catchment Reforestation & Edu Project works with local communities to improve lives while also strengthening conservation.
UN secretary general appoints Goodall to serve as UN messenger of peace.
Goodall is made a Dame of the British Empire.
Goodall is reappointed as UN messenger of peace.
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