Short answers, pulled from the story.
Charles Robert Darwin was born on the 12th of February 1809 at The Mount, his family's home in Shrewsbury, Shropshire. He was the fifth of six children of wealthy society doctor and financier Robert Darwin and Susannah Darwin.
In cliffs near Punta Alta, Charles Darwin made a significant find of fossil bones of huge extinct mammals beside modern seashells. This discovery indicated recent extinction with no signs of change in climate or catastrophe and included bony plates resembling giant versions of local armadillo armour.
Upon receiving the paper from Alfred Russel Wallace on the 18th of June 1858, Charles Darwin sent it immediately to Lyell as requested by Wallace. Lyell and Hooker then decided on a joint presentation at the Linnean Society on the 1st of July to present both their theories together.
Charles Darwin died at Down House on the 19th of April 1882 but was buried in Westminster Abbey close to John Herschel and Isaac Newton. The funeral took place on Wednesday the 26th of April and was attended by thousands including family friends scientists philosophers and dignitaries.
In 1862 Charles Darwin predicted the existence of a moth with a proboscis long enough to pollinate the Angraecum sesquipedale orchid which has a sixteen-inch-long nectary. Explorers discovered Xanthopan in 1903 confirming this prediction.