Timeline December 1831

Events in December 1831 1

• 1831 HMS Beagle departs with Charles Darwin A young naturalist begins a voyage that will reshape biology The survey ship HMS Beagle set sail from Plymouth under Captain Robert FitzRoy, carrying the 22-year-old naturalist Charles Darwin on what became a five-year voyage around the world. Observations made during the journey later formed the basis of Darwin's theory of evolution by natural selection.