Jane Goodall Timeline
April
3, 1934 - Jane is born
Christmas 1942 - Jane recieves "The Story of Dr. Dolittle" as a gift
Summer 1946 - Jane starts a nature club, "The Alligator Society"
May 4, 1953 - Jane begins Queen's Secretarial College
May 1956 - Jane is invited to a friend's family farm in Kenya
April 2, 1956 - Jane arrives in Mombasa
May 24, 1957 - Jane meets Louis Leaky
July 14, 1960 - Jane and her mothe arrive in Gombe
October 30, 1961 - Jane observes chimpanzees eating meat
November 4, 1961 - Jane first observes chimpanzees making tools
March 28, 1964 - Jane marries filmmaker Hugo Van Lawick
April 1965 - Jane earns her Ph.D. from Cambridge University
March 4, 1967 - Jane's son "Grub" is born
1977 - Jane founds the Jane Goodall Institute
1984 - Jane begins the ChimpaZoo program
1986 - Jane decides to leave Gombe to try to save chimpanzees
1991 - Jane founds Roots & Shoots
1994 - Jane founds TACARE
April 16, 2002 - Jane is appointed to serve as UN Messenger of Peace
February 20, 2004 - Jane is made a Dame of the British Empire