1809 |
Charles Darwin born in Shrewsbury, England |
1819–20 |
The Beagle built at Woolwich dockyard on the Thames |
1825 |
The Beagle modified for surveying work |
October 1827 |
Darwin came up to Cambridge as a student at Christ’s College |
1828–30 |
Robert FitzRoy’s first captaincy of HMS Beagle |
June 1831 |
Darwin graduated from Cambridge |
August 1831 |
Darwin accompanied Adam Sedgwick on a geological field trip to Wales |
27 December 1831 |
The Beagle set sail from Plymouth |
16 January 1832 |
The Beagle's first landfall at St Jago, Cape Verde Islands |
15 February 1832 |
The Beagle arrived at St Paul’s Rocks |
28 February 1832 |
The Beagle reached South America |
April–June 1832 |
Darwin explores the area around Botofogo, in particular the Corcovado mountains |
26 July–30 October 1832 |
Monte Video |
2–10 November 1832 |
Buenos Aires |
14–26 November 1832 |
Monte Video |
16 December 1832 – 26 February 1833 |
First visit to Tierra del Fuego |
1 March – 6 April 1833 |
First visit to East Falkland Island |
28 April – 3 July 1833 |
Maldonado; Darwin mounts long expeditions inland |
July 1833 |
Conrad Martens joins the Beagle in Monte Video |
August–October 1833 |
Rio Negro; Darwin goes overland to Bahia Blanca and Buenos Aires; then from Santa Fe to Monte Video |
December 1833 |
Sailed south along coast of Patagonia |
January 1834 |
Port Desire and Port Julian |
January–March 1834 |
Through the Strait of Magellan; second visit to Tierra del Fuego |
10 March – 7 April 1834 |
Second visit to East Falkland Island |
April – May 1834 |
FitzRoy led an inland expedition along the Santa Cruz river while the Beagle was repaired |
June 1834 |
The Beagle rounded Cape Horn and reached the west coast of South America |
June–December 1834 |
The Beagle surveyed the island of Chiloé and the Chonos archipelago of southern Chile |
July 1834 |
Conrad Martens left the Beagle |
19 January 1835 |
Mount Osorno erupted |
January–September 1835 |
Darwin mounted inland expeditions across the Andes, Peru |
7 September 1835 |
The Beagle set sail from South America |
15 September |
The Beagle dropped anchor off the Galápagos |
October 1835 |
The Beagle left the Galápagos |
1836 |
The Beagle arrived in Australia |
2 October 1836 |
The Beagle arrived in Falmouth |
1839 |
Journal of Researches published |
1842 |
Coral Reefs published; Darwin moved to Down House in Kent |
1846–1854 |
Darwin undertook an exhaustive taxonomical study of barnacles (Cirripedes) |
1859 |
On the Origin of Species published |
May 1870 |
The Beagle is sold, probably for scrap |
1876 |
Autobiography published |
1877 |
The University of Cambridge awarded Charles Darwin an honorary doctorate |
April 1882 |
Darwin died at his home, Down House, Kent |