the Beagle's Voyage

By simplyamber15

  • Charles Darwin born in Shrewsbury, England

  • The Beagle built at Woolwich dockyard on the Thames

  • The Beagle modified for surveying work

  • Darwin came up to Cambridge as a student at Christ’s College

  • Robert FitzRoy’s first captaincy of HMS Beagle

  • Darwin graduated from Cambridge

  • Darwin accompanied Adam Sedgwick on a geological field trip to Wales

  • Darwin explores the area around Botofogo, in particular the Corcovado mountains

  • Rio Negro; Darwin goes overland to Bahia Blanca and Buenos Aires; then from Santa Fe to Monte Video

  • The Beagle surveyed the island of Chiloé and the Chonos archipelago of southern Chile

  • Darwin mounted inland expeditions across the Andes, Peru

  • The Beagle set sail from South America

  • The Beagle dropped anchor off the Galápagos

  • The Beagle arrived in Australia

  • Journal of Researches published

  • Darwin undertook an exhaustive taxonomical study of barnacles (Cirripedes)

  • On the Origin of Species published

  • Autobiography published

  • The University of Cambridge awarded Charles Darwin an honorary doctorate

  • Darwin died at his home, Down House, Kent