13-Jan-1833: The day HMS Beagle nearly sank
Charles Darwin's closest brush with death during the Beagle voyage came on Sunday 13th January 1833, near that most infamous of nautical perils, Cape Horn.
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12th February, 1834: Darwin's 25th birthday, Patagonia
How Charles Darwin spent his 25th birthday.
19th April, 1882: Charles Darwin dies
On Wednesday, 19th April, 1882, at 4 o'clock in the afternoon, at Down House in Kent, Charles Darwin died in the arms of his loving wife, Emma.
A miserable birthday aboard HMS Beagle
On Charles Darwin's miserable 23rd birthday (his first aboard HMS Beagle).