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Events on Tuesday 27 December 1831 1
1831HMS Beagle departs with Charles DarwinA young naturalist begins a voyage that will reshape biologyThe 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.