| 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 |
