Timeline Sunday 6 January 1884

Events on Sunday 6 January 1884 1

• 1822 – 1884 Gregor Mendel (1822-1884) Died 6 January 1884, aged 61 Gregor Mendel was an Austrian friar and scientist whose experiments with pea plants established the fundamental laws of inheritance. His work, largely overlooked in his lifetime, was rediscovered around 1900 and became the foundation of modern genetics. He died in Brno in what is now the Czech Republic.