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1860 2nd edition of Origin; foreign editions appear. Works on variation book. Etty gets very sick.
1861 Letter to Charles from Emma re religion. 3rd edition of Origin. Begins work on Orchid book.
1862 Begins to grow his beard (eczema). Orchid book published; meets Wallace.
1863 Charles seriously ill...consults many medical men, including an ice cure (Dr. Chapman) in 1965. Very sick until spring of 1866. Emma takes up gardening; exertion cheers her up when she is sad.
1864 In November awarded the Copley medal of the Royal Society of London; it's highest scientific honor.
1865 Publishes article on climbing plants; later that year published as a book.
1866
Catherine Darwin dies.
February 4th edition of Origin.
1867 Completes Variation manuscript. Distributes several Queries about expression.
1868 Elizabeth Wedgwood moves to Down to be near Emma. Lives there for 12 years until her death. Her dog Tony, etc. Darwin meets Alfred Lord Tennyson and is photographed by Julia Margaret Cameron. The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication is published.
1869
Works on Descent of Man. 5th edition of Origin
published.
April They
visit the Mount, but Charles found it very sad.
1870 Works on Descent of Man, visits relatives.
1871
It wasn't until he wrote The Descent of Man (pub. 1871) that he used the term "evolution" for the first time in its modern meaning, and context.
Etty marries Richard Litchfield and moves to Bryanston Street in London. Charles and Emma miss her, and visit often. Polly becomes Darwin's dog after Etty's marriage (she didn't take her to London).
1872 6th edition of Origin. Publishes The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals. Etty's husband helped him with expression in music for the book. Rents a house in Sevenoaks, Kent, likes the veranda, builds one at Down.
1874
Séance at Erasmus's with George Eliot and husband GH Lewes there. Charles did not stay; Emma did. Charles thought séances were all "trickery." Emma thought probably so, but kept an open mind.
Summer Francis (Frank) marries Amy Ruck
1875 Publishes Insectivorous Plants...sits for a portrait by Walter William Ouless.
1876 During the summer starts on his autobiography for children and future grandchildren. In September his first grandchild, Bernard, is born, but the mother, Amy, dies in childbirth. Frank and Bernard go to Down House to live; Emma basically raises him. Frank becomes Charles's secretary, which is good.
1877 Awarded honorary LLD from Cambridge. Publishes The Different Forms of Flowers on Plants of the same Species and "A biological sketch of an infant" in the journal Mind (from observations of Willy.)
1879 Family holiday in Lake District. Publishes a study of his grandfather, followed by a bitter controversy with Samuel Butler who accuses him of plagiarism. Portrait painted by William Blake Richmond. Emma doesn't like it: "quite horrid, so fierce & so dirty."
1880
Children give Charles a present of a fur coat. Publishes The Power of Movement in Plants with Frank's help.
November 7 Elizabeth Wedgwood dies.
1881
Publishes The Formation of Vegetable Mould through the Action of Worms, with observations on their Habits
August Erasmus Darwin dies.
1882 April 19 Charles Darwin dies, age 73. Buried in Westminster Abbey on April 26. Emma does not go.
1883 Emma buys a house, The Grove, in Cambridge; summers still at Down. Francis and new wife and Bernard live nearby in Cambridge so Bernard can see Emma as often as he likes.
1887 Publication of the Life… Autobiography-first edition, with omissions Emma asked for. (Was first published as part of Life and Letters of Charles Darwin, edited by Francis (and Emma.) Then it was reprinted in 1929 issued as a separate volume with Reminiscences by Francis Darwin, and a statement by him of his father's religious views. His granddaughter Nora Barlow then published it restoring omissions in 1958!
1890 Hensleigh Wedgwood, Emma's brother, dies.
1896 October 2 Emma Wedgwood Darwin dies.
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a knitting needle, a box of dominoes from my childhood, a schedule from University of Chicago where my older son was then in school, and who knows what else. But the main things to notice are the timeline and the map. 
