Timeline of Carboniferous research

This timeline of Carboniferous research is a chronological listing of events in the history of geology and paleontology focused on the study of earth during the span of time lasting from 358.9 to 298.9 million years ago and the legacies of this period in the rock and fossil records.
19th century.
1828
1853
1860
1882
1887
1889
1899