December 12, 1862 - Crosby, Lancashire, England - Joseph Bruce Ismay is born
January(?) 1(?), 1882 - Liverpool - Ismay is on of the founding team of Liverpool Ramblers Football Club
January 5, 1885 - London - Ismay leaves London for New Zealand on board "SS Doric"
January 8, 1885 - Plymouth - "SS Doric" leaves Plymouth
January 13, 1885 - Tenerife, Canary Islands - "SS Doric" reaches Tenerife for a 22-hour stop
January 20, 1885 - Line of the Equator - "SS Doric" crosses the line of the Equator
January 30, 1885 - Cape Town, South Africa - "SS Doric" reaches Cape Town
February 18, 1885 - Hobart, Tasmania - "SS Doric" reaches Tasmania
February 24, 1885 - Christchurch, New Zealand - "SS Doric" arrives in New Zealand
April 30, 1885 - Sydney, Australia - Attends a tennis match between New South Wales and Victoria
May 4, 1885 - Sydney - Participates in a series of tennis matches during the following days
January(?) 1(?), 1887(?) - New York City - Ismay becomes the representative of "Ismay, Imrie and Company" in New York =(START)
May 25, 1887 - New York City - "New York Times" - "White Star Line for Queenstown and Liverpool [...] For inspection of plans or other information apply to the company's office, No.41 Broadway, New York. J.Bruce Ismay, Agent".
December 4, 1888 - New York City - Ismay marries Julia Florence Schieffelin
August 7, 1889 - Liverpool - RMS Teutonic departs for New York
August 14, 1889 - New York City - RMS Teutonic arrives in New York for the first time
January(?) 1(?), 1891 - Liverpool - Returns to the United Kingdom with his family and becomes a partner in his father's firm - Ismay, Imrie and Company
December 31, 1891 - Liverpool - Thomas Henry Ismay retires
November 23, 1899 - Liverpool - Thomas Henry Ismay dies, and Bruce Ismay succeeds him as the chairman of White Star Line
August 31, 1901 - Liverpool - Departs for New York on board "RMS Celtic"
September 7, 1901 - New York City - Arrives in New York
September 18, 1901 - New York City - Departs for England on board "RMS Oceanic"
January(?) 1(?), 1902 - Liverpool - White Star Line was absorbed into the International Mercantile Marine Co. (IMM), a large American shipping conglomerate. Bruce Ismay ceded control to IMM in the face of intense pressure from shareholders and J. P. Morgan, who threatened a rate war
February 1(?), 1904 - New York City - Ismay arrives in New York
February 24, 1904 - New York City - Ismay becomes President of the International Mercantile Marine Co. (IMM), with the support of JP Morgan. He sails for England on board "Cedric", to settle up his personal affairs, so that he takes permanent residence in America
May 8, 1907 - Liverpool - Departs for New York on board "RMS Adriatic"
May 22, 1907 - New York City - Departs for Southampton on board "RMS Adriatic"
August(?) 1(?), 1907 - Belgravia, London - In the Summer, Ismay meets Lord Pirrie of the Harland and Wolff shipyard at his house in Belgravia, to discuss White Star's answer to the "Lusitania" and "Mauretania", the recent Cunard Line marvels
July 29, 1908 - Liverpool(?) - Harland and Wolff presents the technical drawings of the Olympic-class to J. Bruce Ismay and other White Star Line executives
July 31, 1908 - Liverpool(?) - Ismay approves the design and signs three "letters of agreement", authorising the start of construction
February 26, 1910 - New York City - RMS Mauretania arrives in New York
May 31, 1911 - Belfast, Northern Ireland - Ismay attends the RMS Titanic launching ceremony
June 14, 1911 - Southampton - RMS Olympic departs for New York in her maiden voyage, via Cherbourg and Queenstown
June 21, 1911 - New York City - RMS Olympic arrives at New York for the first time
June 28, 1911 - New York City - RMS Olympic departs for Southampton
July 5, 1911 - Southampton - RMS Olympic arrives in Southampton
April 2, 1912 - Liverpool - Ismay too ill to attend RMS Titanic's sea trials
April 10, 1912 - Southampton - RMS Titanic departs to New York in her maiden voyage, arriving in Cherbourg four hours after leaving Southampton
April 11, 1912 - Cork, Ireland - RMS Titanic arrives at Cork Harbour on the south coast of Ireland
April 15, 1912 - 400 miles S of Grand Banks of Newfoundland - RMS Titanic collides with an iceberg on the night of 14th and sinks 2 hours and 40 minutes later. Ismay is one of the 710 survivors of the sinking. He boards RMS Carpathia to New York
April 18, 1912 - New York City - RMS Carpathia docks at New York's Pier 54
May 2, 1912 - New York City - Ismay departs back to Britain aboard RMS Adriatic
May 11, 1912 - Liverpool - RMS Adriatic arrives in Liverpool
June 30, 1913 - Liverpool - Ismay resigns as President of the IMM and chairman of the White Star Line
January 2, 1919 - Liverpool - Ismay gives £25,000 (equivalent to £1,054,346 in 2016) to set up a fund to recognise the contribution of merchant mariners in World War I
January(?) 1(?), 1920 - London, England - Ismay sells his house overlooking the mouth of the Mersey River and moves to London
January 29, 1930 - London - Ismay resigns as the director of Globe Insurance Company, Royal Insurance company and the Thames and Mersey Marine Insurance Company
July 30, 1934 - London - Ismay resigns as chairman of the Asiatic Steam Navigation Company and its associate company, the Delta Insurance Company
October 17, 1937 - Mayfair, London - Joseph Bruce Ismay dies, aged 74 =(END)
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