Samuel Pepys | Timeline

Samuel Pepys (23 February 1633 – 26 May 1703) was an English naval administrator and Member of Parliament who is now most famous for the diary he kept for a decade while still a relatively young man. Although Pepys had no maritime experience, he rose by patronage, hard work, and his talent for administration to be the Chief Secretary to the Admiralty under both King Charles II and King James II. His influence and reforms at the Admiralty were important in the early professionalisation of the Royal Navy. (Wikipedia)

February 23, 1633 - London - Samuel Pepys is born
March 3, 1633 - St.Bride's Church, London - Samuel is baptised
January(?) 1(?), 1644 - Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire - Pepys starts attending Huntingdon Grammar School
January(?) 1(?), 1646 - London - Pepys starts attending St. Paul's School (until 1650)
January 30, 1649 - Whitehall Palace, London - Pepys attends the execution of King Charles I
October 1(?), 1650 - Cambridge - Pepys is admitted to Cambridge University
March 1(?), 1651 - Cambridge - Pepys moves to Cambridge to attend the Magdalene College as a sizar
January(?) 1(?), 1654 - Cambridge - Takes his Bachelor of Arts degree
February 1, 1654 - Whitehall Palace, London - Appointed secretary or domestic steward to Edward Montagu =(START)
June 1, 1654 - Appointed clerk to George Downing, Teller of the Receipt in the Exchequer
October 10, 1655 - Westminster, London - Pepys marries 14-year old Elisabeth de St Michel
December 1, 1655 - St. Margaret's, Westminster - Civil ceremony for the marriage of Pepys and Elisabeth
March 26, 1658 - London - Pepys undergoes surgery to remove bladder stones in his urinary tract - successful
May(?) 1(?), 1659 - Gravesend(?) - Departure to "The Sound" to deliver letters for Edward Montagu (speculative date and place)
May 26, 1659 - Helsingør (Elsinore), N of Copenhagen - Pepys arrives in Helsingør aboard the ketch "Hind" with letters for Edward Montagu, commander of the Baltic Fleet
June(?) 6(?), 1659 - Gravesend(?) - Return to England (speculative date and place)
June 8, 1659 - Axe Yard, London - Pepys is home in time for Richard Cromwell's formal abdication
October 20, 1659 - London - Managing Montagu's household
December 5, 1659 - Cornhill, London - Pepys witnesses violence in the streets, as he goes to a shop to buy a notebook in preparation for his diary
January 1, 1660 - London - Samuel Pepys starts keeping a diary
March 3, 1660 - Westminster Hall - Pepys is summoned to meet Edward Montagu
March 6, 1660 - Whitehall - Pepys is asked to go to Sea with Montagu as his Secretary
March 23, 1660 - Long Reach, Gravesend - Pepys takes a barge from Tower Wharf and went aboard the "Swiftsure", until the "Naseby" is ready
March 30, 1660 - Long Reach, Gravesend - Montagu transfers to the "Naseby"
April 9, 1660 - The Downs - The fleet sails round the North Foreland and comes to anchor in the Downs
May 3, 1660 - The Downs - Pepys reads out the "declaration to the Generals" and the King's covering letter to cheers of the crews
May 12, 1660 - The Downs - Montagu's fleet weighs anchor and sets course to Scheveningen
May 14, 1660 - The Hague - Arrival in Scheveningen. Pepys goes ashore in The Hague. Meets 10-year old future King William III
May 26, 1660 - Dover - Charles II, Montagu and Pepys, arrive in England
May 29, 1660 - London - Charles II enters in London
June 18, 1660 - Whitehall Palace, London - Montagu tells Pepys that he was looking to get him the Clerkship of the Acts
July 13, 1660 - Whitehall Palace - Pepys secures the position of Clerk of the Acts to the Navy Board
September 24, 1660 - Pepys is made a Justice of the Peace (Judicial officer)
February 15, 1662 - Deptford - Pepys is admitted as a younger brother of Trinity House
April 30, 1662 - Portsmouth(?) - Pepys receives the Freedom of Portsmouth
November 20, 1662 - Pepys joins the Tangier committee
April 8, 1664 - Woolwich Dockyard - Pepys attends the launching of the "HMS Royal Katherine"
February 15, 1665 - London - Pepys is elected a Fellow of the Royal Society
March 20, 1665 - London - Pepys becomes the treasurer of the Tangier Committee
April 30, 1665 - London - Diary: "Great fears of the sickness here in the City it being said that two or three houses are already shut up. God preserve us all!"
August 16, 1665 - London - Diary: "But, Lord! how sad a sight it is to see the streets empty of people, and very few upon the 'Change. Jealous of every door that one sees shut up, lest it should be the plague; and about us two shops in three, if not more, generally shut up"
May 23, 1666 - London - Pepys collects his portrait from the painter, Mr.Hales, and pays him
September 2, 1666 - Palace of Whitehall, London - After seeing the start of the great fire, Pepys goes by boat to Whitehall and is the first to inform the king
September 5, 1666 - Steeple of Barking Church, London - Pepys views the destroyed city of London: "the saddest sight of desolation that I ever saw"
September 7, 1666 - Paul's Wharf, London - Pepys sees the ruins of St.Paul's Cathedral, of his father's house and the house where he had his stone removed
April 3, 1667 - London - Meeting with William Penn. Pepys suggests fortifying the River Medway
April 28, 1667 - London - Pepys doesn't believe the Dutch and French are able to send a fleet to England
June 13, 1667 - London - Pepys becomes aware that the Dutch are out in force
June 20, 1667 - London - Pepys understands that the River Thames is the target of the Dutch
June 22, 1667 - London - After hearing about the loss of Sheerness, the dutch raid on Chatham and the capture of the "Royal Charles", thinks Charles II's reign is doomed
August 21, 1667 - London - Pepys hears two boys sing to him, one of them is John Blow - but the experience is awful as their voices were breaking
March 5, 1668 - London - Pepys makes a long speech at the bar of the Commons about the use of tickets to pay seamen
October 25, 1668 - London - Pepys is surprised by his wife while kissing and masturbating Deborah Willet
May 31, 1669 - London - Last entry in Pepys' diary, as he got worried about his eyesight
June 1(?), 1669 - London - Low Countries | France - Holiday in France and the Low Countries with Elizabeth, until October
November 10, 1669 - London - Pepys' wife Elizabeth dies, after getting ill on the return from the Low Countries
January 24, 1672 - Deptford - Pepys becomes an Elder Brother of Trinity House
January(?) 1(?), 1673 - Horsham, West Sussex - Involved with the establishment of the Royal Mathematical School at Christ's Hospital
June 18, 1673 - Promoted to Secretary to the Admiralty Commission
November 4, 1673 - Elected MP for Castle Rising in Norfork
February 1, 1676 - Horsham, West Sussex - Appointed Governor of Christ's Hospital
May 22, 1676 - Deptford - Pepys is elected Master of Trinity House
February 5, 1679 - Elected MP for Harwich
May 20, 1679 - Tower of London - Pepys resigns as Secretary of the Admiralty and is arrested on suspicion of treasonable correspondence with France
July 9, 1679 - Tower of London - Pepys is released from the Tower of London
June 1(?), 1680 - London - The charges against Pepys are dropped
May 1(?), 1682 - Edinburgh - Pepys accompanies the Duke of York to Edinburgh
July 30, 1683 - Portsmouth - Pepys embarks on Dartmouth's "HMS Grafton" for Tangier
August 14, 1683 - Gulf of Biscay(?) - Dartmouth shows Pepys the king's instructions for Tangier
September 14, 1683 - Tangier, Morocco - Pepys arrives in Tangiers and is saluted by Percy Kirke and all city guns
December 6, 1683 - Tangier - Pepys departs Tangiers
December 9(?), 1683 - Cadiz, Spain - Pepys arrives in Cadiz (speculative date)
December 25, 1683 - Cadiz - Pepys listens to Christmas carols at the Cadiz Cathedral
December 26, 1683 - Cadiz - Dartmouth's ships weigh anchor and sail to England
March 30, 1684 - Portsmouth - Pepys returns to England after a very rough passage
June 10, 1684 - London - Appointed King's Secretary for the affairs of the Admiralty
December 1, 1684 - London - Pepys becomes president of the Royal Society
July 8, 1685 - Deptford - Pepys is elected Master of Trinity House
July 14, 1685 - Deptford - Pepys is elected Master of Trinity House (a second time)
November 30, 1686 - London - End of Presidency of the Royal Society
June 29, 1688 - Court of King's Bench, Westminster - Pepys is called as witness in Trial of Seven Bishops
January 16, 1689 - Harwich - Pepys is defeated in the parliamentary election at Harwich
February 20, 1689 - London - Pepys resigns his secretaryship
May 1(?), 1689 - London - Arrested on suspicion of Jacobitism
July 1(?), 1689 - London - Released from prison
June 25, 1690 - London - Arrested again on suspicion of Jacobitism
June 30, 1690 - London - Released from prison
April 27, 1699 - London - Pepys is made freeman of the city of London for services to Christ's Hospital
June 1(?), 1701 - Clapham, Surrey - Pepys moves out of London
May 26, 1703 - Clapham, Surrey - Samuel Pepys dies, aged 70 =(END)