Timeline Monday 19 May 1845

Events on Monday 19 May 1845 1

• 1845 Franklin expedition departs England Search for the Northwest Passage begins Sir John Franklin sailed from Greenhithe with HMS Erebus and HMS Terror and 129 men to chart the Northwest Passage. The ships were last seen by Europeans in Baffin Bay that summer. Every member of the expedition died, and it became the worst disaster in the history of British polar exploration.