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