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
- Battle of Trafalgar (1805)
- Beethoven's Symphony No. 5 (1808)
- Britain abolishes the slave trade (1807)
- Charles Darwin (1809)
- Abraham Lincoln (1809)
- Mozart's The Magic Flute premieres (1791)
- Abolition of British slave trade (1807)
- Napoleon crowned Emperor (1804)
- Haitian Revolution (1791)
- Napoleonic Wars (1803)