plants

Greece’s first national park, at Mount Olympus, the country’s highest mountain, is declared in 1938.

UNESCO recognizes the area’s exceptionally diverse flora and fauna and its value to scientific research.

The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) publishes its “Red List” of endangered animal and plant species.

Princess Augusta and Lord Bute establish the first botanic garden at Kew.

The Swedish physician and botanist Carl Linnaeus publishes the tenth edition of his book Systema Naturae, which then provides the foundations for modern zoological taxonomy.

English taxonomist John Ray’s History of Plants classified biological species in a new systematic way.

Due to the breadth of its content and illustrations, this book becomes a bestseller of the seventeenth century.

First contact of Europeans with potatos in the Magdalena Valley in the Colombian Andes

Early modern European voyages to the New World led to the globally transformative exchange of people, plants, ideas, and diseases.