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OCR: 1822 Mendel is born on July 22 in Heinzendorf, Austria 1843 Enters the Augus stinian monastery at Briinn in Austria -Hungary now known as Brno in the Czech Rep ublic). 1844 As well as theology Mendel studies botany and agriculture He 1 particularly interested in improving yields in farming 1848 Attends the Uni iversity OF Vienna, Austria where he takes up ex xperimental physics well as following current studies ofhybridization (cross breeding of plants). He publishes paper on the damage caused to certain plants by insects He returns to the monastery 1856 Experiments with breeding plants. He uses peas, cultivating and cataloging over 28, ,000 pea plants over a seven- year period He looks at particular characteristics in the leaves and pods of parent plants and cross fertilized offsp ring. B ...