1854: Born at Ballater, West Aberdeenshire, Scotland on 2nd October
1857: Family moves to Perth, Scotland.
1874-1878: Studies Biology under Thomas Huxley at the Royal School of Mines, London
1879: During a scientific expedition to Mexico, Geddes suffers temporary blindness and develops the graphic method using folded squares of paper.
1880-1888: Demonstrator and lecturer at Edinburgh University.
1886: Marries Anna Morton. Begins urban improvement projects and establishes University Hall as a student residence.
1888: Unsuccessfully applies for the Chair of Botany at Edinburgh University.
1888-1919: Holds the Chair of botany at University of Dundee.
1890: Acquires Outlook Tower in Edinburgh to develop as regional museum and ‘sociological laboratory’.
1899-1900: Visits America and meets intellectual luminaries and education leaders in Philadelphia, Chicago and New York.
1904: Publishes ‘City Development: A Study of Parks, Gardens, and Culture- Institutes: A Report to the Carnegie Dunfermline Trust’.
1910: Cities and Town Planning Exhibition first displayed.
1912: Declines the offer of a Knighthood
1914: Travels to India at the invitation of Lord Pentland, Governor of Madras, to show the Cities Exhibition and to assist as a town planning consultant.
1915: Publishes ‘Cities in Evolution: An Introduction to the Town Planning Movement and to the study of Civics’.
1917: Geddes’ son is killed in action on the Western Front. Wife Anna dies in Calcutta. Geddes receives the first correspondence from Lewis Mumford.
1919: Commissioned by the Zionist Federation to plan the New Hebrew University in Jerusalem. Geddes is also appointed to the chair of Sociology at the University of Bombay.
1923: Geddes travels to New York and meets Lewis Mumford.
1924: Geddes is taken seriously ill; he travels to Montpellier, France to recuperate. In September of that year he begins work on the college des Ecossais.
1925: Geddes travels to Jerusalem for the inauguration ceremony of the Hebrew University. Lewis Mumford visits Patrick Geddes in Edinburgh.
1932: Awarded Knighthood.
1932: Dies at Montpellier on 17th April.
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