Ship's chronometer from HMS Beagle
1795-1805 · Resource
A marine chronometer by Thomas Earnshaw carried aboard HMS Beagle on the survey voyage with Charles Darwin, enabling precise longitude. It symbolises precision navigation and Darwin's voyage.
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Around 1800
- Latin American wars of independence (1808)
- Haitian Revolution (1791)
- Napoleon's rule of France (1799)
- Charles Darwin (1809)
- Abraham Lincoln (1809)
- Jenner's smallpox vaccine (1796)
- Napoleonic Wars (1803)
- Battle of Trafalgar (1805)
- Dissolution of the Holy Roman Empire (1806)
- Louisiana Purchase (1803)