1854
Born 2 October in Ballater, youngest of five children
1857
Family moved to Mount Tabor, Perth
1871
Left Perth Academy for work in bank and ‘free home studies’
1871
Biology at Edinburgh (one week) and London (under Huxley)
1878
Roscoff (Brittany) and the Sorbonne
1879
Set up Scottish Zoological Station at Cowie, Stonehaven
The Mexican Adventure
1880
Demonstrator in Botany, Edinburgh University
1882
Letter from Charles Darwin (quoted by Aubrey Manning)
1883
Developed Order Garden for Grange House Boarding School
Read paper to Royal Botanical Society of Edinburgh
1886
Marriage to Anna Morton
1887
Norah Geddes born
University Hall, first self-governing hostel
1887-1890
Summer schools set up and run every August
1888
Professor of Botany, University College, Dundee
1891
Alasdair Geddes born
1892
Outlook Tower started
1893
Ramsay Garden created as co-operative flats
1895
Arthur Geddes born
1897
Cyprus – survey and planning
1900
Held International Assembly at Exposition Universelle, Paris
First visit to United States
Return visit to United States
1903
Dunfermline development plan and publication of City Development
1908
Crosby Hall (Chelsea) relocated and restored as residence for university women
1910
Cities Exhibition at Chelsea
(then toured till lost at sea 1914)
1913
Cities Exhibition awarded Grand Prix in Ghent
1914
Outbreak of Great War (World War I)
1914-1915
First visit to India with Alasdair
1915
Cities in Evolution published
1915-1917
Second visit to India with Anna
1917
Deaths of Alasdair and Anna
1919
Armistice: end of Great War
1919
Retirement and Farewell Lecture, Dundee
Planning in Jerusalem and Tel Aviv
Professor of Civics and Sociology at Bombay
1919-23
Third visit to India with Arthur
1923
Third visit to USA
1924
Left Bombay for Montpellier (health reasons)
College des Ecossais founded
1925
Civil List pension of £80 awarded
1926
Compensation of £2000 paid for loss of Cities Exhibition
Geddes’ plan for city of Tel Aviv accepted
1928
Marriage to Lilian Brown
1931
Life: Outlines of General Biology – Sir J Arthur Thomson & Prof Patrick Geddes
1932
Offer of knighthood accepted – accolade 25 February
Death at Montpellier – 17 April
1956
Pelican in the Wilderness: A Naturalist’s Odyssey in
North America – Frank Fraser Darling
1962
Silent Spring – Rachel Carson
1969
Reith Lectures – Wilderness and Plenty – Frank Fraser Darling
1972
Blueprint for Survival -The Economist
1973
Reformation of Sir Patrick Geddes Memorial Trust
Geddes-awareness’ campaign started by Bulletin of Environmental Education
1974
Small is Beautiful: Economics as if People Mattered – EF Schumacher
1975
A Most Unsettling Person – Paddy Kitchen
1978
The Worlds of Patrick Geddes – Patrick Boardman
1982
Commemorative events in several locations, home and abroad
1985
Patrick Geddes Centre for Planning Studies set up (in the Outlook Tower)
1990
Patrick Geddes: Social Evolutionist and City Planner – Helen Meller
1991-1992
International Summer Meetings run by Patrick Geddes Centre
1992
Rio Earth Summit and Local Agenda 21
2004
Geddes Garden at Scots College, Montpellier, restored
Ideas in Evolution – Geddes 150th Anniversary Symposium, Edinburgh
Patrick Geddes: The Regeneration of Edinburgh – Anniversary Exhibition at the Matthew Gallery, University of Edinburgh
Think Global, Act Local: The Life and Legacy of Patrick Geddes -Walter Stephen (ed)
2007
A Vigorous Institution: The Living Legacy of Patrick Geddes – Walter Stephen (ed)
Paris-Edinburgh: Cultural Connections in the Belle Epoque – Sian Reynolds
2009
The Evolution of Evolution: Darwin, Enlightenment and Scotland – WaIter Stephen
2010
Renewing Old Edinburgh: The Enduring Legacy of Patrick Geddes – Jim Johnson & Lou Rosenburg
2012
Patrick Geddes – Cairns Craig (ed)
2014
Learning from the Lasses: Women of the Patrick Geddes Circle – Walter Stephen (ed)