plants

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.

The first nicotiana tabacum (tobacco) plants are cultivated in Jamestown, Virginia.

This South American cactus moth is used to combat the spread of the prickly pear.

The career of the word “ecology” takes off. The term will increasingly be used to describe all aspects of interaction between living creatures and their environment.