Darwin's Voyage timeline

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Apr 1, 1831
Beginning of the Voyage
 Charles Darwin embarks on the HMS Beagle voyage with the Captain Robert FitzRoy, as
his assistant.

Jan 1, 1832
Cape Verde Islands
 Darwin is exhilarated by his first observations. He explores the volcanic island of St. Jago,
which is only 450 miles off the coast of Africa.

Feb 1, 1832
Crossing the Equator
 Darwin reads Alexander Von Humboldt's inspiring account of his expeditions through the
rainforest. For 6 months, Darwin plans a trip to the Canary Islands, off the coast of Africa.

Period: Apr 1, 1831 to Oct 1, 1836

Beagle Voyage

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Dec 27, 1831

Plymouth, England
 Darwin and Captain FitzRoy had crossed the equator while on the Beagle voyage.

Feb 20, 1832

Salvador, Brazil
 Darwin explores the Brazilian rainforest for the first time.

Sep 1, 1832
Punta Alta, Argentina
 Darwin is intrigued by all the giant fossils he sees. He dug up fossils of gigantic extinct
mammals, such as the ground sloth or glyptodon.

Dec 1, 1832
Tierra del Fuego, Argentina
 Darwin camps near a Fuegian Village and considers the tribal people of Tierra del Fuego
"savages." One of the goals of the Beagle voyage was to establish a Christian mission.
Captain Robert FitzRoy repatriates three native people he had brought to England on a
previous voyage. FitzRoy attempts to spread Christianity throughout the village, however,
his plan fails.

Mar 1, 1833
Falkland Islands
Darwin finds the barren, windswept Falkland Islands 'desolate and wretched.' However,
he then encounters 'primitive lookng rocks' and finds them to be fossils. The Falklands
 were filled with brachiopods, which are 2 shelled animals once among the most abundant
animals on Earth.

Aug 1, 1833
Rio Negro, Argentina

Darwin explores the fertile, lowland areas, known as the Pampas, with the local people or
'gauchos.' He rides across the plains of Patagonia with a group of Argentine cowboys.

Jan 1, 1835
Chiloe Island, Chile
 Darwin sees Mount Osomo erupt while on the island of Chiloe and experiences the
earthquake in the woods near Valdivia. Seeing the aftermath of the earthquake affected
him trememdously.

Feb 1, 1835
Chiloe Island, Chile
 The earthquake that Darwin experienced lifted the ocean floor 2.7 meters or 9 feet above
sea level. He also found rocks containing fossil sea shells in mountains high sbove sea
level.

Sep 1, 1835
Galapagos Islands
 Darwin finds many species of plants, birds and tortoises unique to the Galapagos Islands
but they seem mysteriously related to the mainland species. In particular, Darwin was
most fascinated by the enormous Galapagos tortoises and the marine iguana.

Oct 1, 1835
Galapagos Islands
 Darwin is amazed to find out that, back in London, the group of Galapagos specimens
that he had thought included many different birds were actually all finches.

Jan 1, 1836
Sydney, Australia
 Once Darwin had arrived in Sydney Cove, he saw all the different variety of marsupials
and began to wonder why there is a completely different set of mammals in Australia.

Apr 1, 1836
Cocos Islands (Keelng Islands)
Darwin studied coral reefs that were growing around islands to test his theory of atoll
formation.
May 1, 1836
Mauritius

"I took a quiet walk along the sea coast to the north of the town; the plain is there quite
uncultivated, consisting of a field of black lava, smoothed over with coarse grass and
bushes, the greater part of which are mimosas," observes Darwin.

Jun 1, 1836
Cape Town, South Africa

Darwin writes in his diary about his stop in Cape Town, South Africa during his voyage
and states, "The first object in Cape Town which strikes the eye of a stranger, is the
number of bullock wagons... I have as yet not mentioned the well known Table Mountain;
this great mass of horizontally stratified sandstone rises quite close behind the town to a
height of 3,500 feet."
Aug 1, 1836
Bahia and Pernambuco, South America

In the jungles of South America, Darwin discovers many incredible creatures. However,
both homesick and seasick, Darwin is dismayed when the Beagle makes an unscheduled
detour to make additional longitudinal measurements.

Oct 2, 1836
Falmouth, England
 Darwin and Captain FitzRoy reached the end of their voyage on the Beagle and have
returned home to England to share their discoveries and theories.

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