The voyage of the Beagle: journal of a scientific expedition
A timeline that traces Charles Darwin’s voyage aboard HMS Beagle between 1831 and 1836. Through its stopovers, observations, encounters and discoveries, this expedition journal shows how contact with landscapes, species and cultures from different places transformed his way of understanding nature and laid the groundwork for some of the ideas that would later change the history of science.
The Invitation That Changes a Career1831-08-24
Darwin Arrives in Devonport1831-10-24
The Beagle Sails from Plymouth1831-12-27
First Atlantic Passage: Seasickness, Routine, and Observation1831-12-27 – 1832-01-06
Tenerife in Sight, but No Landing1832-01-06 – 1832-01-07
Santiago, Cape Verde: The First Volcanic Laboratory1832-01-16 – 1832-02-08
Porto Praya: A Dry Landscape and a New Way of Seeing1832-01-16
Ribeira Grande: History Within the Landscape1832-01-20
Crossing the Equator: The Voyage Reaches an Oceanic Scale1832-02-02
Saint Peter and Saint Paul's Rocks: Life on a Tiny Outcrop1832-02-16
Fernando de Noronha: A Brief Stop1832-02-20
Bahia: The First Tropical Immersion1832-02-29 – 1832-03-18
From Bahia to Rio: Colored Seas and Microscopic Life1832-03-18 – 1832-04-04
Rio de Janeiro: Residence, Forest, and Field Notebook1832-04-04 – 1832-07-05
Excursion North of Cabo Frio1832-04-08 – 1832-04-23
Socêgo: Luxuriant Nature and Slavery1832-04-13
Botafogo: A Base for Observing the Tropics1832-04-23
Toward the Río de la Plata1832-07-05 – 1832-07-26
Montevideo: Gateway to the Pampas1832-07-26
Maldonado: Ten Weeks of Natural History Collecting1832-07-29 – 1832-10-19
Gauchos, Compass, and Rural Hospitality1832-08-01
Rheas and the Fauna of the Plains1832-08-15
Punta Alta: Fossils Enter the Story1832-09-22
First Major Shipment of Specimens1832-11-14
Tierra del Fuego: An Unsettling Encounter1832-12-18
Woollya: Mission, Return, and the Fragility of the Project1833-01-24 – 1833-03-06
Jemmy Button and the Question of Cultural Adaptation1833-03-01
Into the Interior with Gauchos1833-08-08 – 1833-08-12
Meeting Rosas and Permission to Cross the Territory1833-08-12
Punta Alta Revisited: Bones, Shells, and Deep Time1833-08-21 – 1833-09-01
Carcarañá and Paraná: Traces of Extinct Giants1833-10-01
Conrad Martens Joins as Artist1833-11-14
Puerto Deseado: Christmas in Patagonia1833-12-23
Puerto San Julián: Fossils in the Cliffs1834-01-09
Strait of Magellan: Navigating Difficult Passages1834-01-26
Falkland Islands: Kelp, Birds, and Coastal Life1834-03-16
Expedition up the Santa Cruz River1834-04-19 – 1834-05-08
Chiloé and the Southern Archipelagos1834-06-10 – 1834-07-23
Valparaíso: A Base on the Pacific1834-07-23 – 1834-11-10
Illness and a Pause in Chile1834-08-14 – 1834-09-27
Chonos and Chiloé: Rain, Volcanoes, and a Fragmented Coast1834-11-10 – 1835-02-08
Valdivia: Prelude to the Earthquake1835-02-08
Concepción Earthquake: The Earth Moves1835-02-20
Concepción in Ruins1835-03-04
Crossing the Andes to Mendoza1835-03-18 – 1835-04-10
Coquimbo: Desert, Coast, and Raised Shells1835-04-27 – 1835-06-01
Copiapó: The Dry Limit of the Chilean Journey1835-06-02 – 1835-06-21
Lima and Callao: Waiting, Politics, and Preparing for the Pacific1835-07-19 – 1835-09-06
Arrival in the Galápagos1835-09-15
Chatham/San Cristóbal: Lava, Heat, and the First Island Notes1835-09-16 – 1835-09-22
Charles/Floreana: Tortoises, Local Accounts, and Variation1835-09-23 – 1835-09-27
Albemarle/Isabela: Volcanoes and Life on Separate Islands1835-09-29 – 1835-10-04
James/Santiago: Birds, Reptiles, and Decisive Collections1835-10-08 – 1835-10-17
From the Archipelago into the Open Pacific1835-10-20 – 1835-11-15
Tahiti: Landscape, Mission, and Cultural Contrast1835-11-15 – 1835-11-25
Bay of Islands: New Zealand and the Missionary World1835-12-21 – 1835-12-30
Sydney: An Expanding Colony1836-01-12 – 1836-01-30
Hobart: Tasmania and Colonial Comparison1836-02-05 – 1836-02-17
King George Sound: An Australian Stop1836-03-06 – 1836-03-14
Cocos Keeling: The Atoll as a Scientific Problem1836-04-01 – 1836-04-12
Mauritius: Rest and Tropical Comparison1836-04-29 – 1836-05-09
Cape of Good Hope: Science, Conversation, and Geology1836-05-31 – 1836-06-18
Saint Helena: An Island for Thinking About Erosion1836-07-08 – 1836-07-14
Ascension: Letters from Home and Scientific Reputation1836-07-19 – 1836-07-23
Return to Bahia: Closing the Tropical Circle1836-08-01 – 1836-08-06
Azores: The Final Atlantic Stop1836-09-19 – 1836-09-23
Falmouth: Return to England1836-10-02
Shrewsbury: Returning Home with Another World in His Mind1836-10-04
Richard Owen Examines the Fossils1836-10-29
Transmutation Notebooks: The Questions Are Reorganized1837
After the Beagle: Journal, Geology, and Evolution1837-12-31
