John Franklin Timeline Game
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About This Challenge
Explore the mysterious disappearance of explorer John Franklin through this engaging timeline game. Can you piece together the events leading up to his fateful expedition?
- Franklin’s departure on the HMS Erebus and HMS Terror
- The search expeditions launched to find Franklin and his crew
- The discovery of the wreck of the HMS Erebus in 2014
Game Details: a timeline game where you place events in their correct chronological order
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- April 16, 1786: John Franklin born in Spilsby, Lincolnshire, England
- 1800: Franklin joins the Royal Navy
- 1803-1815: Franklin serves in the Napoleonic Wars
- 1823: Franklin marries Eleanor Anne Porden
- 1819-1822: Franklin leads an overland expedition to the Arctic
- 1829: Franklin is knighted for his Arctic explorations
- 1837: Franklin becomes Lieutenant Governor of Van Diemen's Land (Tasmania)
- 1845: Franklin leads his first Arctic expedition in HMS Erebus and HMS Terror
- 1846: Franklin's expedition gets stuck in the ice near King William Island
- 1848: Franklin and his crew abandon the ships and attempt to trek to safety
- 1847: Franklin dies during the expedition
- 1850s-1870s: Remains of Franklin's expedition are discovered by search parties
- 1850s: Franklin's wife leads a public campaign to find the lost expedition
- 2014-2016: Franklin's ships Erebus and Terror are discovered in the Arctic
- ongoing: Archaeological expeditions continue to search for clues about Franklin's fate