Charles Ralph Boxer | Timeline

Sir Charles Ralph Boxer FBA GCIH (8 March 1904 – 27 April 2000) was a British historian of Dutch and Portuguese maritime and colonial history. In Hong Kong he was the chief spy for the British army intelligence in the years leading up to World War II. (Intro from Wikipedia)

There is only one book on the market about the life of Charles R. Boxer, a large book but very incomplete as far as dates and places are concerned. I was in doubt whether I would publish this incomplete timeline, but in the end I decided to do so with the hope of finding more details over time and getting the help that readers can also give. For now, some key moments in Boxer's life will sit in my file waiting for precise dates and locations.

March 8, 1904 - Sandown, Isle of Wight, England - Charles Ralph Boxer is born

September 21, 1905 - Tolpuddle - Beryl Alice, sister of Charles Boxer, is born 

January(?) 1(?), 1910 - Gibraltar - Hugh Boxer’s battalion was order to Gibraltar and his family accompanied its head to the Rock. At the age of six he became the only male pupil in the Catholic convent school. He also began his lifelong interest in travelling during the family’s four-year sojourn in Gibraltar, accompanying his parents on extended visits to Spain and Tangiers

June 16, 1915 - While in Shanklin, Isle of Wight - Lieutenant-Colonel Hugh Boxer, Charles' father, is mortally wounded by German artillery in Flanders. His body was never found

March(?) 1(?), 1918 - Crowthorne, Berkshire - During the Lent term, Charles enrolls at the venerable Wellington College in Berkshire, having obtained a scholarship offered to the sons of Wellingtonians killed in the war

June(?) 1(?), 1921 - Crowthorne - Wins the Parsons Prize on Speech Day at his graduation, for the best oral recitation of a selected text

July 1(?), 1921 - Tidworth Pennings - Becomes a member of "B" Company and spends July at an Officer Training Corps camp in Tidworth Pennings

December 31(?), 1921 - Crowthorne, Berkshire - Charles leaves Wellington College impressively ranking 30th out of some 200 Cadets

January(?) 1(?), 1922 - Sandhurst, Berkshire - Charles enters the Royal Military Academy of Sandhurst as a “Gentleman Cadet” and among the many graduates who preceded him were Winston Spencer Churchill and Sir Bernard Montgomery, who played prominent roles in World War II

January(?) 1(?), 1923 - Sandhurst - Charles becomes a member of the Hakluyt Society

January 31, 1924 - Sandhurst, Berkshire - Charles Boxer, shortly before reaching 20-years-old, is commissioned as a second lieutenant in His Majesty’s Lincolnshire Regiment =(START)

March 31, 1924 - Lincoln(?) - Two months later he joined his first battalion. The same year, he also made his first serious efforts to equip himself to pursue another career, that of a historian, not of Britain but of distant empires that had belonged to its rivals, Holland and Portugal

June(?) 1(?), 1924 - Lincolnshire - Charles learns the Portuguese history and language and begins teaching himself Portuguese. The same year he starts to study the Dutch language as well

June(?) 1(?), 1925 - Lisbon | Évora, Portugal - Charles visits Portugal for the first time and explores resources of Lisbon’s Biblioteca Nacional (the National Library) and the Torre do Tombo (the National Archives), as well as those of the renowned Public Library of Évora, holder of an invaluable manuscript collection concerning the old State (Estado) of India

August(?) 1(?), 1925(?) - Aldershot, SW of London - Assigned temporarily to Aldershot Military Depot

October(?) 1(?), 1925(?) - Holywood, near Belfast, N.Ireland - Stationed at Holywood, near Belfast, Northern Ireland

January 31, 1926 - Lincoln(?) - Promoted to Lieutenant

September 1(?), 1926 - London - Publication of the article "O 24 de Junho de 1622: Uma façanha dos portugueses" i.e. "the 24th of June 1622: a portuguese feat of arms" in a new scholarly portuguese bulletin

January 1(?), 1927 - London - Publication of the article "Relação da perda da Nau 'Madre de Deus' no porto de Nagasaki em Janeiro de 1610" (Report of the loss of the ship 'Madre de Deus' in the port of Nagasaki in January 1610)

January 27, 1927 - London - Charles Boxer begins his long career as a public lecturer with the first of several talks before the Japan Society

June(?) 1(?), 1927 - Amsterdam, Netherlands - Goes to Amsterdam for the first time. Meets the director of the Naval Museum, Willem Voorbeytel-Cannenburg. Meets Captain Johan Carel Marinus Warnsinck

June 24, 1927 - Lincoln - Letter to J.C.M.Warnsinck

August 27, 1927 - Lincoln - Letter to J.C.M.Warnsinck

September 7, 1927 - London(?) - Meets Sir William Foster, editor of "The English Factories in India" series

September 8, 1927 - Lincoln - Letter to J.C.M.Warnsinck

January 8, 1927 - Lincoln - Letter to J.C.M.Warnsinck

January 18, 1928 - Lincoln - Letter to J.C.M.Warnsinck: "I hope to write more about the anglo-dutch wars in [Europe?] and elsewhere, and prove...what a tough struggle the 'Hogen-mogens' really gave us!"

January(?) 1(?), 1929 - London - Charles Boxer enrolls at the School of Oriental Studies at the University of London, then the only British institution offering the study of the Japanese language

June 15, 1929 - While in London - In her fifty-third year, Jeannie Boxer, Charles' mother, commits suicide at a nursing home in Weymouth, fourteen years after the loss of her husband

December 20, 1929 - London - Letter to J.C.M.Warnsinck, informing him that he was about to embark to Japan

January 24, 1930 - London - Charles departs for Japan aboard the Ocean liner "Atsuta Maru"

January 30(?), 1930 - Gibraltar - Port call at Gibraltar

February 2, 1930 - Marseille, France - Port call at Marseille

February 3, 1930 - Chateau d'If - Visit to Chateau d'If

February(?) 8(?), 1930 - Naples, Italy - Port call at Naples

February(?) 15(?), 1930 - Port Said, Egypt - Port call at Port Said

February(?) 23(?), 1930 - Colombo, Sri Lanka - Port call at Colombo

March(?) 1(?), 1930 - Singapore - Port call at Singapore

March 3, 1930 - Hong Kong - Port call at Hong Kong

March 7, 1930 - Shanghai, China - The "Atsuta Maru" reaches Shanghai

March 11, 1930 - Kobe, Japan - The "Atsuta Maru" reaches Kobe and there Charles boards a train for Tokyo

March 12, 1930 - Tokyo - Reaches Tokyo and reports to the Military Attaché at the British Embassy to begin his duties

April 18, 1930 - Tokyo - Letter to J.C.M.Warnsinck

May 26, 1930 - Tokyo - Letter to J.C.M.Warnsinck

July 1(?), 1930 - Nikko | Kyoto | Kobe | Deshima - Visits to Nikko (N. Of Tokyo) and Kyoto, Kobe and the island of Deshima

August 10, 1930 - Tokyo - Letter to J.C.M.Warnsinck, informing him he was about to travel to Formosa (Taiwan)

October 15(?), 1930 - Formosa (Taiwan) - Enjoying a visit to Formosa

November 15(?), 1930 - Tokyo - Returns to Tokyo, via Kobe and Nara

June(?) 1(?), 1931 - Kyoto, Japan - Boxer moves from Tokyo to Kyoto where he becomes attached to the 38th Nara Infantry Regiment as a LO (Language Officer) and lives with his Japanese hosts in their barracks

September 31, 1931 - Tenri, Nara, Japan - Visit to Tenri University with Minister Pabst

June(?) 1(?), 1932 - Nagoya, Japan - Boxer has a new assignment at Toyohasi Non-Commissioned Officers school in Nagoya

May 5, 1933 - Tokyo(?) - Farewell lunch with Malcolm Kennedy and George Sansom

May 7, 1933 - Shanghai, China - Boxer ends his assignment and begins a leisurely trip down the coast of China with Pabst, visiting Shanghai, Amoy, Hong Kong, Canton, Macao, Manila and the spice islands of the eastern end of the archipelago of Indonesia, always examined the city’s national libraries and inspected some of its rarities

June(?) 25(?), 1933 - Java | Jakarta - Boxer spends two and half week in Java, principally in Batavia (Jakarta)

July 12, 1933 - Jakarta, Indonesia - Boxer boards a dutch ship to Genoa, Italy

July 28, 1933 - Port Said, Egypt(?) - Boxer and Pabst sign "Merkwaerdige Moluxche Hofreis ofte"

August 2, 1933 - Genoa, Italy - The dutch ship arrives in Genoa

September(?) 1(?), 1933 - Lincolnshire - After a short period of home leave, Boxer rejoines the second battalion of the Lincolns, then stationed in Yorkshire

January 25, 1934 - London - Reads a paper at a meeting of the Japan Society

July 21, 1934 - Jaffa Lines, Catterick Camp, Yorkshire - Letter to Edgar Prestage

January 1(?), 1935 - London - Boxer is assigned to the intelligence division of the War Office in London

March 21, 1935 - While in London - His sister Alice dies

March 27, 1935 - While in London - His brother Myles, grief-stricken with her sister's death, commits suicide with a shotgun

October 1(?), 1935 - The Hague - Boxer returns to Holland at the invitation of the Netherlands Geographical Society and delivered two lectures, the first in The Hague 

October 5(?), 1935 - Amsterdam - Second lecture, in Amsterdam

November 14, 1935 - London - Reads a paper at a meeting of the Japan Society

December 1(?), 1935 - London - Boxer learns that his next assignment is in Hong Kong

December 5, 1935 - London - Letter to Edgar Prestage

June(?) 1(?), 1936 - Portugal - Boxer spends two weeks in Portugal with his sister Beryl

October 1(?), 1936 - Moscow, Soviet Union - Encounter between Charles and Beryl at the principal Moscow railroad station to cross the Eurasian continent via the famous Trans Siberian railroad

January 1, 1937 - Aberdeen, SW Hong Kong - Charles separates of Beryl and take charge at the fishing village of Aberdeen, where the Royal Navy Base was situated

February(?) 1(?), 1937 - Macao - Boxers begins spending long weekends in Macao, the Portuguese outpost that he had visited briefly on his way home from Japan in 1933

April 13, 1937 - China - By car, bus, boat and train, Boxer travels through five of China’s southern provinces with a driver and a Mandarin interpreter

July 7, 1937 - While in Hong Kong - War in the Far East begins with a clash between Japanese and Chinese troops at Lukouchiao bridge, near Beijing

May 13, 1938 - Hong Kong - Boxer sets out from Hong Kong unaccompanied to a China excursion

August 1, 1938 - Shanghai, China - Boxer undertakes another trip to China to the famous city of Shanghai to liaise with fellow intelligence officers. He meets Emily Hahn, a famous writer and correspondent of The "New Yorker’s" in China, better known as "Mickey". Both were contributors to the "T’ien Hsia Monthly", a new English newspaper with the purpose of building cultural bridges between readers

June 8, 1939 - Hong Kong - Charles Boxer and Ursula Norah Anstice Tulloch, a woman born in England in 1909 commonly called the most beautiful in Hong Kong, are married in a fashionable military wedding in Hong Kong’s Episcopal cathedral

June 13, 1939 - Japan - Honeymoon in Japan, where they spend three weeks (13 June to 7 July) visiting Kyoto, Kobe, Tokyo and Nikko. Charles Boxer combines business with pleasure and consults old friends, including Dutch and Portuguese ministers.

October 10, 1939 - Chungking, China - Boxer meets with the Generalissimo Chiang Ki-shek and hands him a memorandum that he had prepared about what the Japanese were planning to do next

September 27, 1940 - While in Hong Kong - Japan announces its signature of the Tripartite Pact with Italy and Germany

October 27, 1940 - Hong Kong - Mickey Hahn takes residence in May Road in Hong Kong next door to Boxer’s house. By that date and probably before, the two were quite openly involved in one of World War II’s most publicized love affairs

January(?) 1(?), 1941 - Hong Kong - Boxer is promoted to Major and becomes Hong Kong’ s senior intelligence officer

October 17, 1941 - Hong Kong - Daughter Carola Militia Boxer is born

November 1(?), 1941 - Hong Kong - The General Officer Commanding Hong Kong informs the War Office in London about the recent increase in Japanese naval activities which had completed a virtual encirclement of Hong Kong

December 8, 1941 - Hong Kong - Hong Kong experiences the first of many air raids, and in a few hours, Japanese forces occupiy the New Territories and Kowloon in the mainland

December 13, 1941 - Hong Kong - A launch with a white flag of truce leaves Kowloon with two Japanese officers aboard and heads for Queen's Pier in Hong Kong Island, where they were met by Major Charles Boxer. The japanese request the british surrender

December 17, 1941 - Hong Kong - Hong Kong suffers a particularly heavy air raid, followed by a severe shelling. About 9:30 a.m. that activity largely ceases and another peace launch leaves Kowloon for the Queen’s Pier, at the Hong Kong island, with a second demand for surrender. Again, Major Boxer receives the Japanese delegation

December 18, 1941 - Hong Kong - In the morning, Hong Kong is bombarded by continuous artillery, mortar and dive-bombing, which damages hospitals, destroys gun emplacements, water mains, rice storage facilities and barracks. That evening, a japanese invasion force of 7,500 men is launched

December 20, 1941 - Hong Kong - Boxer is shot in the back by an unseen sniper. He lays grievously wounded for hours before he is found and rushed to Queen Mary Hospital and placed in its morgue

December 25, 1941 - Hong Kong - Governor Mark Young, after consulting advisors, orders General Maltby to arrange a cease-fire, which officially begins at 3:25 p.m. 

January 21, 1942 - Hong Kong - Boxer is transferred to Bowen Road Military Hospital

May 23, 1942 - Hong Kong - A japanese official parades the Bowen Road Military Hospital patients and the staff and require them to sign the parole. Boxer refuses

September 23, 1942 - Hong Kong - Carola Boxer and Mickey Hahn depart for the Philippines and Mormugão, a neutral Portuguese port in Goa on the former French liner "Teia Maru" as the result of a programme of exchanges of Japanese and foreign nationals

October 15, 1942 - While in Hong Kong - Carola Boxer and Mickey Hahn arrive at Mormugão and board the swedish hospital-ship "Gripsholm"

October 22, 1942 - While in Hong Kong - The "Gripsholm" leaves Mormugão

November 13, 1942 - While in Hong Kong - The "Gripsholm" reaches Rio de Janeiro

December 1, 1942 - While in Hong Kong - Carola Boxer and Mickey Hahn arrive in New York

June 28, 1943 - Shamshuipo Gendarmerie Station - The gendarmerie begins arresting and torturing the conspirators. Boxer is implicated and sent to the Argyle Street Camp

October 19, 1943 - Stanley, Hong Kong - Boxer and others are marched to the prison assembly hall, where a japanese tribunal assembled

October 21, 1943 - Stanley Prison, Hong Kong - Boxer and others POWs are transferred to Stanley Prision after accusations of disobedience and conspiracy. Some of them are executed

October 29, 1943 - Stanley Prison - 32 prisoners are sentenced to death by a japanese tribunal and beheaded

November 5, 1943 - While in Stanley Prison - While Boxer is in Stanley Prision, in Colombo - Sri Lanka, Ursula petitions for divorce in Britain’s High Court of Justice in Colombo concerning Boxer’s infidelities with Mickey Hahn

December 1, 1943 - Stanley Prison - Officers Ford, Gray and Newnham are sentenced to death by a japanese tribunal

December 18, 1943 - Stanley Prison - Officers Ford, Gray and Newnham are executed with a shot in the back

December 23, 1943 - Stanley Prison - Boxer receives his sentence, expecting months of solitary confinement and starvation rations

April 1(?), 1944 - Stanley Prison - Conditions in stanley Prison improve

June 22, 1945 - Tungshan jail, Hebei Province, NW of China - Taken by train to Kowloon, then to Tungshan jail

August 16, 1945 - While in Tunshan jail - Surrender of Japanese forces

August 22, 1945 - Kowloon, Hong Kong - Train to Kowloon, escorted by japanese soldiers

August 29, 1945 - Hong Kong - British carrier planes fly over Hong Kong to announce the proximate arrival of a formidable fleet under command of Admiral Sir Halliday Harcourt

September 16, 1945 - Hong Kong - Two weeks after the Japanese government’s surrender aboard the battleship "USS Missouri", the oft-postponed Japanese surrender of Hong Kong takes place

September 25(?), 1945 - Hong Kong - Provides sworn deposition concerning his knowledge of the arrest, trial and execution of Col.Newnham, Capt.Ford and Flight-Lt.Gray

October 23, 1945 - Hong Kong - Boxer leaves Hong Kong on board the "Shirrabank" directly for San Francisco. It was the first (of many) visits to the United States

November 28, 1945 - New Haven, United States - Boxer and Emily or Mickey Hahn get married in New Haven’s courthouse

December 26, 1945 - New York - Boxer flies from New York to Honolulu and Japan as a member of the British Far Eastern Commission

December 27(?), 1945 - Honolulu, Hawaii - Arrives in Hawaii and boards the communication ship "Mount McKinley"

January 14, 1946 - Tokyo, Japan - Meeting with Koda Shigetomo in the Shorin Esseido bookstore

February 1(?), 1946 - Japan - Returns to Japan as a member of the British Far Easter Comission, a post in which he serves until 1947

May 1(?), 1946 - While recovering in Halloran Hospital, Staten Island - Sir William R. Halliday, principal of King’s College London invites Boxer to reconstitute the Camoens Department of Portuguese which had been suspended during the war. The Camoens chair was the first of its kind anywhere in the English-speaking world

June 1, 1946 - Halloran Hospital, Staten Island - Examined in Halloran Hospital

July 28, 1946 - New York City - Sails for Southampton on board the "RMS Queen Mary"

August 2, 1946 - Southampton - "RMS Queen Mary" arrives in Southampton

August 3(?), 1946 - Conygar (or Coneygar), Dorset, England - Taxi directly to Conygar

August 15(?), 1947 - London - Provides sworn deposition concerning his knowledge of the arrest, trial and execution of Col.Newnham, Capt.Ford and Flight-Lt.Gray

October 31, 1947 - London - Boxer presents his inaugural lecture at the King’s College, University of London, on three of the great chroniclers of Portugal’s eastern empire entitled “Three Historians of Portuguese Asia (Barros, Couto and Boccaro)"

December 23, 1947 - London - Boxer retires on disability just over a month short of having completed twenty-three years of military service

January(?) 1(?), 1948 - London - Charles Boxer publishes "Fidalgos in the Far East, 1550–1770". Fact and Fancy in the History of Macao

October 20, 1948 - New York City - Daughter Amanda is born. Boxer visits the Hispanic Society

November 1(?), 1948 - London(?) - Publishes the article "Salvador Correia de Sá e Benavides and the Reconquest of Angola in 1648"

January(?) 1(?), 1949 - São Paulo | St.Luis, Pará, Brazil - Visits to research

January(?) 1(?), 1950 - Utrecht, Netherlands - Boxer is awarded a honorary doctorate by the University of Utrecht

October 1(?), 1950 - Washington D.C. - Luso-Brazilian colloquium in Washington D.C.

January(?) 1(?), 1951 - London - Boxer publishes "The Christian Century in Japan"

September 1(?), 1951 - Goa, Portuguese India - Stays for a month in Goa. Flies to Diu for a visit

December 7, 1951 - Hong Kong - Rendezvous with Mickey in Hong Kong

December 25, 1951 - Conygar (or Coneygar), Dorset, England - Christmas in Conygar

January(?) 1(?), 1952 - Lisbon, Portugal - Charles is awarded with a honorary doctorate by the University of Lisbon

December 1(?), 1952 - London(?) - "Salvador de Sá and the Struggle for Brazil and Angola 1602-1686" is published

January 26, 1954 - Recife, Brazil - Celebrations of the 300th anniversary of the surrender of Dutch Forces in Northeast Brazil

July 1(?), 1954 - Salvador, Brazil - Researching the city's archives

August 1(?), 1954 - Pernambuco, Brazil - Researching the city's archives

January(?) 1(?), 1955 - St.Tomé, West Coast of Africa - Visit to the Island of St.Tomé

February(?) 1(?), 1955 - Luanda, Angola - Visit to Angola. Surveys the resources of the city's archives

January(?) 1(?), 1956 - London(?) - Boxer finishes writing "The Dutch in Brazil"

January(?) 1(?), 1957 - London - Boxer publishes "The Dutch in Brazil"

June(?) 1(?), 1957 - São Paulo, Brazil - Visits to Sao Paulo, Belo Horizonte and Iguaçú waterfalls

September 1(?), 1957 - Lisbon, Portugal - Participates in a Portugal-Brazil colloquium

September 15(?), 1957 - Mombasa, Kenya - Travels to Kenya to advise Gulbenkian Foundation concerning the merits of funding a proposal to repair and rehabilitate the fortress of Fort Jesus in Mombasa

January(?) 1(?), 1959 - London - Boxer publishes "The Great Ship from Amacao"

January 30(?), 1959 - Rio de Janeiro | Belo Horizonte, Brazil - Travels to Rio de Janeiro, then to Belo Horizonte to conduct research

August 1(?), 1959 - Salvador, Brazil - Attends a conference in Bahia and spends time at the city's local archives. Honorary Doctorate from Universidade Federal da Bahia

April 30(?), 1960 - Johannesburg, South Africa - Four lectures at Witwatersrand University

August 6, 1960 - Lagos | Sagres, Algarve - Portugal - Boxer participates in three-day commemorations the Fifth Centenary of Prince Henry the Navigator's death and witnesses the political nature of the event with the presence of the Portuguese President Américo Thomaz and the President of Brazil Juscelino Kubitschek. C.R.Boxer speaks on behalf of the British representatives at the congress, citing a similar event in London at the British Museum (1960), entitled "Prince Henry the Navigator and the Portuguese Maritime Enterprise" (Catalogue of an Exhibition at the British Museum, 1960)

September 1(?), 1960 - Lisbon, Portugal - Week-long international conference on the history of the discoveries at the University of Lisbon

November 13, 1960 - Batalha, Portugal - Culmination of the Henrican celebrations at the Batalha Monastery

February 15, 1961 - London - Gives the 43rd annual Raleigh Lecture on History at a gathering of the British Academy

March 25, 1961 - Ringshall, England - Returns to Ringshall after 5 weeks in Angola

June(?) 1(?), 1961 - Manila, Philippines - 10-day trip to Manila, Philippines

January(?) 1(?), 1962 - London - Boxer publishes "The Golden Age of Brazil, 1695–1750"

September 1(?), 1962 - Utrecht, Netherlands - Historical conference in Utrecht

November 25, 1962 - London - Departs for lectures in the United States

November 28(?), 1962 - Charlottesville, Virginia, United States - Three conferences at the University of Virginia - "Morocco and West Africa", "Mozambique and India" and "Brazil and Maranhão"

December 3, 1962 - Ithaca, New York - Lecture at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York

December 5, 1962 - Cambridge, Massachusetts - Lectures at Harvard University (5th and 6th)

August 1(?), 1963 - Rio de Janeiro, Brazil - Participation in a conference at Brazil's Instituto Histórico

December 27, 1963 - While in Ringshall(?) - Lisbon's "Diário Popular" publishes the first of four articles by Armando Cortesão under the title "The Insidious book". The subtitle read "From an honest lusophile to a lusophobe of bad faith or the volte-face of Professor Boxer"

September 1(?), 1964 - Madison, Wisconsin - Lecture at the University of Wisconsin

October 1(?), 1964 - Madison, Wisconsin - Lecture at the University of Wisconsin

October 1(?), 1965 - London - Boxer publishes "The Dutch Seaborne Empire"

August(?) 25(?), 1966 - Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia - Attends the Congress of Asian Historians of 1966

April 1(?), 1967 - London(?) - Boxer receives an offer from the Department of International Relations at the Australian National University

May 9, 1967 - Oxford - Lecture at Oxford University

June 30(?), 1967 - London - Boxer retires from King's College and writing and begins an intense collaboration with the main American universities, namely Yale, Harvard and Indiana. Meeting with friends at the Braganza Restaurant in London

October 1, 1967 - Bloomington, Indiana - Arrives in Bloomington

October 12, 1968 - Bloomington - Meeting with Howard R.Lamar, chairman of Yale University

November 1(?), 1968 - Lawrence, Kansas - Lectures at the University of Kansas

November 8, 1968 - While in Bloomington - Yale's executive council and provost approve the appointment of C.R.Boxer

December(?) 1(?), 1968 - Minnesota, Minneapolis - Lectures at the University of Minnesota

January(?) 1(?), 1969 - London - Boxer publishes "The Portuguese Seaborne Empire"

September 15(?), 1969 - New Haven, Connecticut - Boxer holds a personal chair in the history of European Overseas Expansion at Yale University

November 1(?), 1969 - Chicago - Travels from New Haven to Chicago where he becomes keynote speaker at the Newberry Library Conference on Colonial Brazil

April(?) 1(?), 1970 - Angra, Terceira Island, Azores - Surveys the archives of Terceira Island, Azores, during the Spring

November 30(?), 1970 - Puerto Rico - Four days in Puerto Rico celebrating the 25th anniversary of his marriage

March 1(?), 1971 - Hong Kong - Flies to Hong Kong and Macao for a week of meetings. Honorary doctorate, University of Hong Kong

March 14, 1971 - New Haven, Connecticut - Returns to New Haven

April 1(?), 1971 - Lawrence, Kansas - Lectures at the University of Kansas

April 8, 1971 - New Haven, Connecticut - Returns to New Haven

June 15(?), 1971 - Ringshall, England - Returns to England

September(?) 1(?), 1971 - Bloomington, Indiana - Returns to Bloomington in the Autumn for 4 months

October 1(?), 1971 - New Haven, Connecticut - Spends a weekend in New Haven

October 15(?), 1971 - Antigua - Spends 4 days in Antigua

November 1(?), 1971 - New Haven - Annual meeting of the Society of the Discoveries

November 25, 1971 - New Haven - Thanksgiving

December 25, 1971 - Ringshall, England - Christmas in Ringshall

January(?) 1(?), 1972 - São Paulo, Brazil - Trip to São Paulo, Brazil

April(?) 1(?), 1972 - Ponta Delgada, S.Miguel Island, Azores - Examines the archives of St.Miguel Island during the Spring

October 25, 1972 - Near Philadelphia, Pennsylvania - Spends 4 weeks at the Bryn Mawr College and delivers 4 lectures until November 15th

December(?) 1(?), 1972 - New Haven, Connecticut - Retires from Yale University

January(?) 1(?), 1973 - Bloomington, Indiana - Returns to Bloomington to teach

January 15(?), 1974 - Charlotesville, Virginia - From mid january to mid-May he teaches at the University of Virginia

June(?) 1(?), 1974 - Ringshall, England - Summering in Ringshall

September 1(?), 1974 - St.Louis, Missouri - Boxer travels to St.Louis to teach at the University of Missouri

July(?) 1(?), 1975 - Bloomington, Indiana - Teaching at the University of Indiana during the second semester of 1975

November 1(?), 1975 - While in Bloomington - Mickey establishes her permanent residence in New York to avoid british taxes

March 1(?), 1976 - Baltimore, Maryland - Delivers James Schouler lectures at John Hopkins University

April(?) 1(?), 1976 - Bloomington, Indiana - Returns to Bloomington in the Spring

January(?) 1(?), 1977 - Bloomington, Indiana - Teaching at the University of Indiana

February 1, 1977 - Bloomington, Indiana - Letter to Frank Lequin

November 29, 1977 - Lisbon, Portugal - At his friend Armando Cortesão's deathbed

January 5, 1978 - Ann Harbor, Michigan - At the University of Michigan until May 5th

December 17, 1978 - Little Gaddesden, Hertfordshire - Letter to Frank Lequin

January 3, 1979 - Little Gaddesden - Departs for Indiana

May 1(?), 1979 - Bloomington, Indiana - Retires from teaching in Indiana

July 25, 1979 - Melbourne, Australia - Public Lecture at La Trobe University on the "Iberian Dutch World War 1600-1650"

August 15, 1979 - Perth, Australia - Conference on the Indian Ocean in Perth (until 22th)

August 25, 1979 - Sydney, Australia - Leaves Australia for Britain

August 27(?), 1979 - Ringshall, England - Returns to England

November 1(?), 1979 - Lisbon, Portugal - Spends 5 days in Lisbon

November(?) 15(?), 1979 - Ringshall, England - Returns to England

December(?) 1(?), 1979 - Abu Dhabi | Muscat, Oman - 10-day conference that included a visit to Muscat

February 1(?), 1980 - Japan - Spends a month visiting Japan, Hong Kong, Sri Lanka and Goa

March 1(?), 1980 - Peradeniya, Sri Lanka - Honorary doctorate, University of Peradeniya

April 22, 1980 - Little Gaddesden, Hertfordshire - Letter to Frank Lequin

May 1(?), 1980 - United States

June 1(?), 1980 - Amsterdam | Leiden | Groningen | The Hague

July 1(?), 1980 - Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

October 1(?), 1980 - Lisbon, Portugal

November 1(?), 1980 - Muscat, Oman - Spends 12 days in Oman

September 1(?), 1981 - Macao, Portugal (today China) - Returns to Macao

January(?) 1(?), 1982 - Beijing, Guangzhou, China - Spends a month visiting China at the invitation of China's academy of sciences

May 1(?), 1982 - Alto Minho, Northern Portugal - Spends two weeks in Alto Minho with a family of friends, the Wilsons

June 14, 1982 - Leiden, Netherlands - Attends Frank Lequin's "promotie" in Leiden

January(?) 1(?), 1983 - Stockholm, Sweden - Visits an exhibit of chinese porcelain in Stockholm

January(?) 1(?), 1985 - New York City - Travels to New York for meetings

January(?) 1(?), 1986 - Rio de Janeiro, Brazil - Gold Medal from the "Instituto Historico e Geografico Brasileiro"

January 1(?), 1987 - Florence, Italy - Visit to Harold Acton, an old China friend. Invited for a Seminar

February(?) 1(?), 1987 - Pisa, Italy - Invited for a Seminar

May 1(?), 1987 - Paris , France - Lecturing at the "École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales"

August(?) 1(?), 1987 - New York City - Travels to New York for meetings

January(?) 1(?), 1989 - New York - Travels to New York for meetings

March 8, 1989 - While in London(?) - Letter from the President of Portugal, Mário Soares, congratulating Professor Boxer on his birthday, thanking him for his important work on the Portuguese Expansion and informing him of the decision to award him with the Grand Cross of the Military Order of Santiago da Espada, whose badges will be imposed on him in a timely public ceremony....

July 25, 1989 - Greenwich, London - Awarded the Caird Medal of the National Maritime Museum

December (?) 1(?), 1989 - Funchal, Madeira Island - Portugal - International conference in Funchal

January(?) 1(?), 1990 - Lisbon, Portugal - Charles R.Boxer is decorated with the Grand Cross of the Order of Prince Henry the Navigator and the Grand Cross of the Military Order of Santiago da Espada (St.James of the Sword)

January(?) 1(?), 1991 - Tenri, Nara, Japan - Spends 3 weeks in Japan at the invitation of Tenri University

January 1(?), 1992 - Macao, Portugal (today China) - Receives another honorary Doctorate from the University of Macao

June(?) 1(?), 1992 - Florence, Italy - Last trip abroad to give his final seminar at the invitation of K.N.Chaudhuri, holder of the Vasco da Gama chair at the European University in Florence

January(?) 1(?), 1993 - Little Gaddesden, Hertfordshire - Boxer starts going blind

March 8, 1994 - Little Gaddesden - 90th anniversary celebrations in a pub in Little Gaddesden

January(?) 1(?), 1995 - Manchester - Publishes "The Golden Age of Brazil. Growing Pains of a Colonial Society, 1695-1750" - Manchester

April 26, 1996 - While in Little Gaddesden - His first wife, Ursula Churchill-Dawes, dies

February 18, 1997 - While in Little Gaddesden - Mickey Hahn dies in New York, 10 days after suffering a serious fall

April 27, 2000 - St.Albans, Hertfordshire - Charles Ralph Boxer dies, aged 96 =(END) 

~Work in Progress~

Bartolomé de las Casas | Timeline

Bartolomé de las Casas (11 November 1484 – 18 July 1566) was a 16th-century Spanish landowner, friar, priest, and bishop, famed as a historian and social reformer. He arrived in Hispaniola as a layman then became a Dominican friar and priest. He was appointed as the first resident Bishop of Chiapas, and the first officially appointed "Protector of the Indians". His extensive writings, the most famous being "A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies" and "Historia de Las Indias", chronicle the first decades of colonization of the West Indies. He described the atrocities committed by the colonizers against the indigenous peoples. (Intro from Wikipedia)

November 11, 1484 - Seville, Castile and León - Bartolomé de las Casas is born

March 31, 1493 - Seville - Columbus passes through Seville with seven Indians and exotic birds, and stands near the church of San Nicolás to display them. This was witnessed by 8-year-old Bartolomé de las Casas

September 24, 1493 - Cadiz - His father, also named Bartolomé, sails with Columbus for the New World

January(?) 1(?), 1498 - Salamanca - Goes to Salamanca to study canonical and state Law at the local University

October 18, 1498 - Seville - His father sails for Seville from Santo Domingo. Three hundred Taino indian slaves also traveled on those ships. One of them, renamed "Juanico", was given to Bartolomé by his father, Who had received him as a gift from Columbus

January(?) 1(?), 1499 - near Granada - De las Casas may have gone with the Sevillian militia to help quash a rebellion of Moors in the mountains around Granada

May?) 1(?), 1500 - Salamanca - Stops his studies in Salamanca to join an expedition to the Indies

June 1(?), 1500 - Seville - Francisco de Bobadilla sets sail for Hispaniola, taking with him 14 amerindians who had previously been Columbus' slaves, and who were now being returned to their home, including "Juanico"

December 17, 1500 - Granada - De las Casas witnesses the audience of the Catholic Monarchs to Columbus

September 3, 1501 - Granada - The Catholic Monarchs appoint Nicolás de Ovando to replace Bobadilla as Governor and Captain-General of the Indies. De las Casas and his father were there as merchants and they sign on with Ovando's expedition =(START)

February 1(?), 1502 - Seville - Nicolás de Ovando puts together a fleet of 32 ships and 2,500 men (1,500 colonists, mostly nobles). Sailing down the Guadalquivir River from Seville to Sanlúcar de Barrameda, youngsters Hernán Cortés, Francisco Pizarro, Ponce de León and Bartolomé de las Casas (as a "doctrinero") go on the expedition

February 13, 1502 - Sanlúcar de Barrameda, Castile and León - Bartolomé de las Casas sails to the Indies in Nicolás de Ovando's expedition

April 15, 1502 - Santo Domingo, Hispaniola - Bartolomé de las Casas arrives in Santo Domingo with the Expedition of Nicolás de Ovando

November 1(?), 1506 - Seville, Spain - Returns to Spain =(crossofburgundyflag)

December 1(?), 1506 - Seville - Ordained a deacon in Seville

January 1(?), 1507 - Rome, Papal States - Arrives in Rome

March 3, 1507 - Rome - Bartolomé de las Casas is ordained a secular priest

April 1(?), 1507 - Rome - Departs Rome for Salamanca to complete his studies of canon law

June 3, 1509 - Sanlúcar de Barrameda - Departs for Hispaniola with Diego Columbus, who was replacing Nicolás de Ovando as Governor

July 15(?), 1509 - Santo Domingo, Hispaniola - Returns to Hispaniola

September 1(?), 1510 - Concepción de la Vega, Hispaniola - A group of three Dominican friers led by Father Pedro de Córdoba arrive in Hispaniola. His sermons schock everyone including De las Casas

November 1(?), 1510 - Concepción de la Vega - Sings his first mass in Hispaniola, combining the work of "doctrinero" to his office as "encomendero" (late October or early November)

December 1(?), 1511 - Concepción de la Vega(?) - De las Casas is deeply impressed when a Dominican preacher, Fray Antonio de Montesinos, preaches an impassioned sermon that implicated the colonists in the genocide of the native peoples

February 2, 1512 - While in Hispaniola - Taíno chief Hatuey is captured, then tied to a stake and burned alive at Yara, near Bayamo, Cuba

June(?) 1(?), 1512 - Baracoa, SE of Cuba - Arrives in Cuba and joins the conquistadores Panfilo de Narvaez and Diego Velázquez

October 1(?), 1513 - Caonao, Cuba - Witnesses the massacre of Arawak amerindians in Caonao, during the conquest of Cuba by Diego Velázquez de Cuéllar and Pánfilo de Narváez

December 18, 1513 - Jagua, Cuba - Diego Velázquez de Cuéllar and Bartolomé de las Casas reach the port of Jagua

June 4, 1514 - Sancti Spíritus, Cuba - Diego Velázquez de Cuéllar founds the settlement of Sancti Spíritus

August 15, 1514 - Sancti Spíritus - After studying a passage in the book Ecclesiasticus for a Pentecost sermon and pondering its meaning, De las Casas is finally convinced that all the actions of the Spanish in the New World had been illegal and that they constituted a great injustice. He makes up his mind to give up his slaves and encomienda and informs Diego Velázquez de Cuéllar about it. He starts preaching that other colonists should do the same, starting by delivering a sermon at Sancti Spíritus

October(?) 1(?), 1514 - Santo Domingo, Hispaniola - De las Casas deceives his leader Velázquez de Cuéllar and his spanish companions, saying he was going back to Europe to study in Paris (when in fact he was about to go to the Spanish Court to plead the cause of the indians)

September 15(?), 1515 - Santo Domingo - After speaking with the Dominican Pedro de Córdoba, De las Casas sails for Seville together with Fray Antonio de Montesinos

October 6, 1515 - Seville, Spain - Returns to Seville. Montesinos presents De las Casas to the Archbishop of Seville, Diego de Deza

December 24, 1515 - Plasencia, Extremadura, Spain - Bartolomé de las Casas visits the ill King Ferdinand to discuss the situation in the Indies

January(?) 1(?), 1516 - Seville(?) - Writes "Memorial of Grievances, Remedies and Denunciations"

April 1(?), 1516 - While in Seville - Cardinal Cisneros (Regent of Castile) decides to send three Hieronymite friars to exercise the governorship of Hispaniola. Las Casas is commissioned advisor of the friars and appointed Attorney or "universal protector" of all Indians on the islands of Hispaniola, Cuba, San Juan and Santiago (Jamaica), as well as on the American continent. His mission was to inform the Hieronymite fathers or the rest of the people who understood it of the health and integrity of the Indians. Even the Governor and appointed appellate judges had to keep that power of De las Casas, and disobediences to him would be punished with the payment of 10,000 maravedis

September 16, 1516 - While in Seville - A royal "cédula" from the Regents of Castile in Madrid, orders the officials of the "Casa de Contratación" in Seville to pay the "Procurador de los Indios, Bachiller Bartolomé de las Casas" the cost of his journey to the Indies

November 11, 1516 - Seville - Departs for Hispaniola with the three Hieronymite fathers

December(?) 1(?), 1516 - San Juan, Puerto Rico - The ship has a problem and has to anchor at San Juan for two weeks of repairs

December 15(?), 1516 - Santo Domingo, Hispaniola - Reaches Hispaniola. Las Casas realizes that the encomenderos had won the favor of the Hieronymite fathers

April 6, 1517 - While in Santo Domingo - In Seville, a certificate of payment, from the treasurer of the House of Trade, Doctor Sancho de Matienzo, states that Juan Fernández was paid 10,000 maravedis for the passage and cargo of "Bachiller" Bartolomé de las Casas

May 1(?), 1517 - Santo Domingo - Forced to travel back to spain to denounce to the regent the failure of the Hieronymite reforms

July 1(?), 1517 - Seville, Spain - Returns to Seville

September 11, 1517 - Valladolid - Moves to Valladolid and stays at the Dominican convent of San Pablo

November(?) 1(?), 1517 - Aranda de Duero, N. of Castile and León - Arrives at Aranda de Duero and finds Cardinal Cisneros close to death. He secures an audience, but the Cardinal dies within a few days, on November 8th

November 25, 1517 - Valladolid - The new King, Charles V, arrives in Valladolid. De las Casas plied Charles' largely flemish advisers with his version of the conquest of the New World

February 23, 1518 - Valladolid - Meets Ferdinand Magellan when the portuguese navigator signs a contract with the Spanish Crown, and writes a physical description of him

March 22, 1518 - Valladolid - Leaves the Dominican convent of San Pablo

December 12, 1519 - Molins de Rey, near Barcelona - Audience with Charles V. He begins being addressed as "Licenciado" (Licentiate) in royal documents

March 30(?), 1520 - A Coruña, Galicia, Spain - Follows the Court to A Coruña, where Charles V resided

April 5(?), 1520 - Santiago de Compostela - Las Casas meets the Totonac Indians who were brought before the presence of the new monarch by Alonso Hernández Portocarrero and Francisco de Montejo, both emissaries of Hernán Cortés, conqueror of Mexico

May 19, 1520 - A Coruña - Charles V signs De las Casas's grant of territory (it covered 270 leagues from the Paria Peninsula in the east to near Santa Marta in the West), then departs for Flanders in a fleet of 100 ships, to be crowned Holy Roman Emperor

June 1(?), 1520 - Santiago de Compostela - The Council of Castile adopts the ideas of De Las Casas, convinced that the task of conquering and colonizing America should be carried out peacefully through the announcement and dissemination of the Catholic faith. Thus, the Council of Castile authorizes De las Casas to carry out the project to create a peaceful colony in the territory of Cumaná (Venezuela), so that he could apply his theories consisting of populating the mainland, without shedding blood and announcing the gospel, without clatter of weapons

July(?) 1(?), 1520 - Seville - Travels to Seville carrying letters from the regent Adrian and other influential churchmen

December 7(?), 1520 - Seville - He boards a fleet of 3 small ships with a small group of 70 mutineers, convicted and outlaws picked up along the way,  paying for the venture with money borrowed from his brother-in-law

December 14, 1520 - Sanlúcar de Barrameda, Spain - Sails for Puerto Rico

January 10, 1521 - San Juan, Puerto Rico - Arrives in Puerto Rico and receives the news that the Dominican convent at Chiribichi had been sacked by indians

May 4, 1521 - While in San Juan, Puerto Rico(?) - His mentor Fray Pedro de Córdoba dies

July 30, 1521 - Santo Domingo, Hispaniola - Attends Fray Pedro de Córdoba's funeral

November(?) 15(?), 1521 - Santo Domingo - De las casas sails for Puerto Rico with two caravels (Concepción and Sancti Spiritus)

December 1(?), 1521 - San Juan, Puerto Rico - Goes to ask Santo Domingo for help, after a Guaiqueríes rebellion in Puerto Rico

December 10(?), 1521 - Yáquimo, SW Hispaniola (Jacmel, Haiti) - A huge storm breaks loose and De las Casas's ship is driven to Yáquimo, on the opposite side of Hispaniola

January 10, 1522 - While in Yáquimo - His deputy, Francisco de Soto, takes advantage of De las Casas's absence to organize a slave hunt. The Indians also take advantage of the absence of De las Casas attacking and setting fire to the mission on January 10, 1522, and on their return they kill Francisco de Soto, the Franciscan Fray Dionisio and the artilleryman Artieda, the rest of the Christians being able to escape to the Araya peninsula, from there to Cubagua and then to Santo Domingo

March 18, 1522 - Santo Domingo - De las Casas walks from Yáquimo to Santo Domingo and, upon arrival, learns of the destruction of his mission in Cumaná, falling into depression

April(?) 1(?), 1522 - Santo Domingo - Devastated, he accepts the advice of Fray Domingo de Betanzos and enters the Dominican monastery of Santa Cruz in Santo Domingo as a novice

January(?) 1(?), 1527 - Puerto Plata, NE of Hispaniola - Sent to Puerto Plata, in the northeast of the Island, to found a Dominican house

February(?) 1(?), 1527 - Puerto Plata - Begins working on "History of the Indies"

January(?) 1(?), 1531 - While in Puerto Plata - A complain is sent by the encomenderos of Hispaniola that Las Casas was again accusing them of mortal sins from the pulpit

June(?) 1(?), 1531 - Puerto Plata - Letter to Garcia Manrique, Count of Osomo, protesting against the mistreatment of the indians and advocating a return to his original reform plan of 1516

January(?) 1(?), 1533 - Monte Plata, E. of Hispaniola - Contributes to the establishment of a peace treaty between the spanish and the rebel Taíno band of chief Enriquillo

December(?) 1(?), 1534 - Nombre de Dios, Panama - Attempts to travel to Peru with a small contingent of Dominican friars (led by Tomás de Berlanga - Bishop of Panamá) to observe the first stages of conquest of that region by Francisco Pizarro. His party lands at Nombre de Dios, Panama, but has to turn back due to adverse winds

April 15(?), 1535 - Realejo, Nicaragua - De las casas gives up the voyage and takes passage to Nicaragua instead, arriving to the port of Realejo in a small ship four days later

June(?) 1(?), 1535 - Granada, Nicaragua - Lingering for a while in the Dominican convent of Granada, he gets into conflict with Rodrigo de Contreras, Governor of Nicaragua, when De las Casas vehemently opposes slaving expeditions by the Governor

October 15, 1535 - Granada, Nicaragua - Letter to Bernal Diaz de Luco: "This land of Nicaragua is the heart and soul of all the Indies, and I judge the Indies to be the most opulent in the whole world"

November 1(?), 1536 - Santiago de Guatemala - Las Casas follows a number of friars to Guatemala, where they begin to prepare to undertake a mission among the Maya Indians. They stay in the convent founded some years earlier by Fray Domingo Betanzos and study the K'iche' language with Bishop Francisco Marroquín

December(?) 1(?), 1536 - Oaxaca, Mexico - Before venturing into Tuzulutlan (Verapaz region), De las Casas goes to Oaxaca, Mexico, to participate in a series of discussions and debates among the bishops of the Dominican and Franciscan orders

May 2, 1537 - Santiago de Guatemala - Obtains from the licensed governor Alfonso de Maldonado a written commitment ratified on July 6, 1539 by the viceroy of Mexico Antonio de Mendoza, that the natives of Tuzulutlán (Verapaz region), when they were conquered, would not be entrusted but would be vassals of the Crown

January(?) 1(?), 1538 - Oaxaca, Mexico - Las Casas is recalled from his mission by Bishop Marroquín who wanted him to go to Mexico and then on to Spain to seek more Dominicans to assist in the mission

April(?) 1(?), 1540 - Veracruz, Mexico - Departs for Spain

May 27, 1540 - Seville, Spain - Returns to Spain

December 1(?), 1541 - Valladolid - Moves to Valladolid and begins finalizing his writings from Oaxaca for "Memorial de remedios"

April 4, 1542 - Valladolid - Audience with Charles V

May 22, 1542 - Valladolid - De las Casas leaves Valladolid with Charles V for Monzón

July(?) 1(?), 1542 - Monzón, Aragón - Charles V arrives in Monzón. Bartolomé de las Casas meets Hernán Cortés

October 10, 1542 - Monzón - De las Casas follows Charles V to Barcelona

November 20, 1542 - Barcelona - Charles V signs the "New Laws" with the influence of Bartolomé de las Casas, producing shockwaves across the Indies

December(?) 1(?), 1542 - Valencia - Writes "A short account of the destruction of the Indies"

March 3, 1544 - Seville, Spain - Consecrated Bishop of Chiapas in the Dominican Church of San Pablo

July 11, 1544 - Seville - Sails for Hispaniola

September 8, 1544 - Santo Domingo, Hispaniola - After a brieg stop in San Juan, Puerto Rico, De las Casas returns to Santo Domingo with 30 missionaries. They were received with hostility by the Spaniards in the Americas, for having decreed the New Laws of the Indies

December 14, 1544 - Santo Domingo - Leaves Santo Domingo for Chiapas

December 26, 1544 - Caiman Islands, off Southwestern Cuba - They coast along the Caiman Islands off southwestern Cuba towards the Yucatán peninsula

January 6, 1545 - San Francisco de Campeche - Lands at San Francisco de Campeche, Bay of Campeche

February 3, 1545 - Ciudad Real de los Llanos de Chiapas - De las Casas and the rest of the friars arrive in Chiapas

February 27(?), 1545 - Ciudad Real de los Llanos de Chiapas - Takes office as Bishop of Chiapas

March 20, 1545 - Ciudad Real de los Llanos de Chiapas - In a pastoral letter, De las Casas refuses absolution to slave owners and encomenderos even on their death bed, unless all their slaves had been set free and their property returned to them. All the Spaniards opposed, but Las Casas found the support of the Dominican missionaries and the clergyman Juan de Parera

October 1(?), 1545 - Gracias a Dios (between Honduras and Nicaragua) - Goes to Gracias a Dios to ask for help from the Audiencia, chaired by Alonso Maldonado. De las Casas is ignored and returns to Chiapas

October 20, 1545 - Chiapas - The New Laws are finally repealed and riots brake out against De las Casas, with shots being fired against him by angry colonists

January 12, 1546 - Mexico City - Having been summoned to a meeting among the bishops of New Spain, he left his diocese, never to return. At the meeting, probably after lengthy reflection, and realizing that the New Laws were lost in Mexico, Las Casas presented a moderated view on the problems of confession and restitution of property, Archbishop Juan de Zumárraga of Mexico and Bishop Julián Garcés of Puebla agreed completely with his new moderate stance, Bishop Vasco de Quiroga of Michoacán had minor reservations, and Bishops Francisco Marroquín of Guatemala and Juan Lopez de Zárate of Oaxaca did not object. This resulted in a new resolution to be presented to viceroy Mendoza

May 1(?), 1546 - Mexico City - Arrives in Mexico City with Rodrigo de Ladrada

April 1(?), 1547 - Veracruz, Mexico - Sails for Spain, never to return to the New World

May(?) 1(?), 1547 - Terceira Island, Azores - Stopover in the Azores

June 1(?), 1547 - Lisbon, Portugal - Arrives in Lisbon. Picks up some manuscripts, chronicles and books on the portuguese expansion into the Atlantic and down the African Coast

June 5(?), 1547 - Aranda de Duero, Castile - Returns to Castille by land

April(?) 1(?), 1547 - Valladolid - De las Casas persuades the Emperor (who was in Flanders) to instruct the Council of the Indies to convene a special committee of theologians and jurists to sit in judgement on the specific issue: "Is it lawful for the King of Spain to wage war on the Indians, before preaching the faith to them, in order to subject them to his rule, so that afterward they may be more easily instructed in the faith?"

April 16, 1550 - While in Valladolid - Charles V orders all conquests in the Indies to be suspended, until the "Valladolid Debate" gives an answer to the question whether the indigenous peoples of the Americas were capable of self-governance, during the Spanish colonization of the Americas

August 15(?), 1550 - Valladolid - First session of the "Valladolid Debate" between Bartolomé de las Casas and Juan Ginés de Sepúlveda. De las Casas submits his resignation as bishop of Chiapas and succeeds in having one of his disciples, Fray Tomás Casillas, be appointed to replace him

January(?) 1(?), 1551 - Valladolid - Rents a cell at the College of San Gregorio, where he lives with his assistant and friend Fray Rodrigo de Ladrada

Brevisima relación de la
destrucción de las Indias, 1552

April 1(?), 1551 - Valladolid - Second session of the "Valladolid Debate"

May 1(?), 1551 - Valladolid - Third session of the "Valladolid Debate"

March 10, 1551 - Valladolid - De las Casas is named beneficiary of the inheritance of Don Juan de Écija, and used this money to ensure the maintenance of him and his friend the confessor Rodrigo de Ladrada for the rest of their days at the Dominican College of San Gregorio in Valladolid

January(?) 1(?), 1552 - Valladolid - Publishes "Brevisima relación de la destrucción de las Indias" (a short account of the destruction of the Indies)

January(?) 1(?), 1561 - Valladolid - Finishes writing his "history of the Indies" after 40 years, signing it over to the College of San Gregorio

June(?) 1(?), 1561 - Madrid - Moves to the Dominican monastery at Atocha in Madrid

February 28, 1564 - Madrid - Signs his Last Will and Testament

January 7, 1566 - Madrid - Letter from Rome: "Cardinal Alexader has been named Pope Pius V"

July 18, 1566 - Madrid - Bartolomé de las Casas dies, aged 81 =(END)

Winston Churchill | Timeline

Sir Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill, KG, OM, CH, TD, PC, DL, FRS, RA (30 November 1874 – 24 January 1965) was a British statesman who was the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1940 to 1945 and again from 1951 to 1955. Churchill was also an officer in the British Army, a historian, a writer (as Winston S. Churchill), and an artist. He won the Nobel Prize in Literature, and was the first person to be made an honorary citizen of the United States. (Intro from Wikipedia)

November 11, 1874 - Blenheim Palace, Woodstock - Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill is born
January 1(?), 1877 - Dublin, Ireland - Winston travels to Dublin, where his grandfather was appointed Viceroy of Ireland
February 15(?), 1880 - London - Churchill family returns to London
December 25, 1881 - Blenheim Palace, Woodstock - Spends Christmas at Blenheim Palace
January 4, 1882 - Blenheim Palace, Woodstock - Writes his first letter to his mother
April(?) 1(?), 1882 - Isle of Wight - Winston visits the Isle of Wight in the Easter
November 2(?), 1882 - near Ascot - Goes to St George Boarding School
December 25, 1882 - London - Spends Christmas in London
September 1(?), 1884 - Brighton - Winston is transfered to a boarding school near the Sea, for health reasons
December 25, 1884 - London - Spends Christmas in London
January 20, 1885 - Brighton - Winston returns to Brighton
March 14, 1886 - Brighton - Winston almost dies with pneumonia - gets better on 17th
June 18, 1886 - London - Convinces his mother to let him go to London for the Queen's Jubilee
March 15, 1888 - Harrow - Passes his examinations to enter Harrow School
April 1(?), 1888 - Harrow - Winston enters Harrow School
September 30(?), 1888 - Harrow - Joins the Army class at Harrow
January 1, 1891 - Banstead - Spends New year at Banstead
January(?) 1(?), 1892 - Versailles, France - Spends a month in Versailles to improve his french
July 1(?), 1892 - Sandhurst - Winston fails the Sandhurst entrance examination
November 29, 1892 - Sandhurst - Winston improves, but fails again
January 10, 1893 - Bournemouth - Winston Fractures his thigh during a holiday chase with his brother
August 3, 1893 - London - As Winston prepares to leave England, receives news that he passed the exams in Sandhurst
August 7(?), 1893 - Luzern, Switzerland - Writes to his father giving accounts of the Holiday
August 14, 1893 - Milan, Italy - Receives a letter from his father concerning Sandhurst
September 1(?), 1893 - Sandhurst - begins his Sandhurst Military academy course
December 25, 1893 - Blenheim Palace, Woodstock - Spends Christmas at Blenheim Palace
August 1(?), 1894 - Visits Waterloo, Antwerp and Zermatt, in Switzerland
January 24, 1895 - London - Lord Randolph, Winston's father, dies
February 20, 1895 - Aldershot - Churchill enters the Cavalry, being gazetted a 2nd Lieutenant with the 4th Hussars =(START)
July 23, 1895 - Aldershot - Churchill meets the visiting Duke and Duchess of York, later King George V and Queen Mary
October 30, 1895 - Liverpool - Churchill departs for Cuba aboard the Cunard Royal Mail Steamship "Etruria"
November 9, 1895 - New York City - Churchill spends one week at New york. Visits West Point
November 18, 1895 - Tampa, Florida - Takes a ship to Havana
November 19, 1895 - Havana, Cuba - Arrives in Havana
November 21, 1895 - Havana - Churchill and Barnes leave Havana by train to join the spanish troops
November 23, 1895 - Central Cuba
December 2, 1895 - Central Cuba - Churchill experiences being attacked and in combat with rebels (1st and 2/12)
December 10, 1895 - Tampa - Churchill leaves Cuba for the Unites States and home
December 27, 1895 - Liverpool | London - The "RMS Etruria" arrives in Liverpool. Train to London
September 11, 1896 - Southampton - Churchill departs for India with the 4th Hussars aboard the "SS Britannia"
October 1, 1896 - Bombay, India - Churchill arrives in Bombay
October 4, 1896 - Poona, India - At a camp in Poona
October 10, 1896 - Bangalore, India - Churchill stays in Bangalore for 6 months

On Horseback, in 4th Hussars' uniform

November 1(?), 1896 - Secunderabad - Churchull meets Pamela Plowden, daughter of a british resident in Hyderabad
December 1(?), 1896 - Calcutta - Travels to Calcutta to play Polo
February 1(?), 1897 - Bangalore - Churchill is made Brigade Mayor(???)
April 18(?), 1897 - With intention of being a war correspondent in Crete (after Turkey's declaration of War against Greece on April 5th), Churchill departs to Italy
May 8, 1897 - As the turks defeat the greeks. Churchill decides to continue to London
May 20(?), 1897 - London - Churchill arrives in London
June 26, 1897 - Bath - Makes his first political speech in a Primrose League meeting
July 1(?), 1897 - London - After hearing about the Pathan tribesman revolt, Takes the train in London for Brindisi
August 24, 1897 - Bangalore, India - Writes his mother from this date
August 29, 1897 - Bangalore - Churchill departs to the frontier, where the revolt was happening
September 4(?), 1897 - Malakand - Reaches Malakand, on the northwest frontier in the "first week of September"
September 16, 1897 - Markhanai - Sees action in the frontier village of Markhanai
September 23, 1897 - Zagai - After Domadola, Sees action again at Zagai
September 30, 1897 - Agrah - Attached to the 31st Punjabi Regiment - Action in Agrah
October 2, 1897 - Inayat Kila - Writes his mother from General Blood's HQ
October 12, 1897 - Inayat Kila - Writes his mother telling her he had participated in 15 fights
October 18(?), 1897 - Bangalore - Churchill is ordered back to Bangalore
December 31, 1897 - Bangalore - Churchill sends his mother the manuscript of his book "The Story of the Malakand Field Force"
January 18(?), 1898 - Calcutta - Goes to Calcutta, where he stays with the Viceroy
March 1(?), 1898 - Peshawar - Attached to the Tirah Expeditionary Force
March 14, 1898 - "The Story of the Malakand Field Force" is published in London
June 1(?), 1898 - Bombay - Sails from Mombay to London, via Egypt
June 15(?), 1898 - Egypt - Churchill leaves his servant and campaigning kit in Egypt, hoping to return
July 2, 1898 - London - Churchill reaches London
July 14, 1898 - Bradford - Speeches at Bradford
July 22(?), 1898 - Nº10 Downing Street, London - Lord Salisbury, the prime-minister, meets Churchill after reading his book
July 27, 1898 - London - Leaves London in the morning
July 30, 1898 - Marseille, France - Boards ship to Egypt
August 2, 1898 - Cairo, Egypt - Arrives in Egypt. Goes at once to the 21st Lancers Barracks
August 5, 1898 - Luxor - Writes his mother from this date
August 14, 1898 - Atbara - The 21st lancers reach Atbara and camp
August 24, 1898 - 60 miles from Omdurman, Sudan
August 26, 1898 - near Omdurman - Request of transfer to the egyptian cavalry denied
September 1, 1898 - Omdurman, Sudan - Opposite side of the Nile to Khartoum. Battle of Omdurman on the next day
September 3, 1898 - Khartoum, Sudan - Churchill disagrees with Lord Kitchener about the atrocities commited against wounded and prisoners
October 1(?), 1898 - Dover - Speech
October 25, 1898 - Rotherhithe, London - Speech
November 1(?), 1898 - An article in the "World" states that he was leaving the army to become secretary to the under-secretary of State for War, George Wyndham
November 30, 1898 - London - Leaves London for India
December 2, 1898 - Brindisi, Italy - After crossing europe by train, Churchill Boards the ship "Osiris"
December 29, 1898 - Bangalore - Writes his mother from this date
February 1(?), 1899 - Bangalore - Churchill receives a letter from Robert Ascroft, asking him to stand with him at the next General Election
March 16(?), 1899 - Bombay - Churchill leaves India for the last time
March 25(?), 1899 - Cairo, Egypt - Spends 2 weeks in Cairo, working on another book and interviewing people
April 15(?), 1899 - London - Churchill arrives in London
July 6, 1899 - Churchill is defeated in the elections
September 18, 1899 - Churchill receives a telegram from the "Daily Mail" asking him to go as their correspondent to South África
October 6, 1899 - Drafts a formal application to join a british Yeomanry Regiment
October 12, 1899 - Oldham - As the Boer war starts, Churchill goes to Oldham for a last public meeting
October 14, 1899 - Southampton - Reaches Southampton by train. Boards the "Dunottar Castle" to South África
October 31, 1899 - Cape Town, South Africa - The "Dunottar Castle" reaches Cape town (with general Buller on board)
November 1, 1899 - Beaufort West - Trying to reach Ladysmith, under threat of capture by the Boers
November 4, 1899 - Durban - Reaches Durban by midnight. Very seasick during a small trip
November 5, 1899 - Pietermaritzburg - Churchill, always resourceful, manages to hire a train to proceed north
November 6, 1899 - In London, "River War" is published
November 9, 1899 - Outskirts of Colenso - Riding with the british troops
November 15, 1899 - Estcourt - Churchill participates in a scouting expedition to pick up information. Boers fire and he helps as trucks jam. Churchill is made Prisioner of War in Pretoria
November 18, 1899 - Pretoria - Writes his mother from the POW camp
December 10, 1899 - Pretoria - Churchill asks Haldane if he can escape to Mozambique with him and Brockie
December 13(?), 1899 - Pretoria - Churchill escapes alone, without compass and dutch-speaking help
December 14(?), 1899 - Witbank, 60 miles East of Pretoria - Churchill awakes in the morning and jumps train. Awaits for next night to board another. Starving, he finds a british mine where fellow brittons help hidding him
December 19, 1899 - Witbank - The english manage to put Churchill on a train to Transvaal, with food and drink
December 21, 1899 - Lourenço Marques (today Maputo), Mozambique - Churchill arrives in Lourenço Marques. Goes at once to the british consulate. After cleaning, bath and telegrams, Churchill decides to board a boat to S.A immediatly
December 23, 1899 - Durban - The small boat reaches Durban
December 26, 1899 - Pietermaritzburg - Churchill return to HQ, very close to the spot where he was captured
January 2, 1900 - Churchill accepts a commission in the South African Light Horse
January 9, 1900 - Tugela River - Buller crosses the Tugela
January 23, 1900 - Spioenkop - Churchill witnesses and reports about the battle of Spioenkop
January 28, 1900 - Lady Randolph and his Churchill's brother Jack, arrive in Durban aboard the hospital ship "Maine"
February 5, 1900 - Tugela River - Churchill writes his mother at Durban
February 25, 1900 - Tugela River(?) - Churchill is nearly killed by shrapnel
February 28, 1900 - Ladysmith - Lord Dundonald invites Churchill to ride with him and enter the city
April 4(?), 1900 - Durban - Arrives in Durban from Ladysmith
April 16(?), 1900 - East London - Sails for East London
April 18(?), 1900 - Cape Town - Takes the train to Cape Town
April 20(?), 1900 - Bloemfontein - Travels inland by Train to the front
April 22, 1900 - Dewetsdorp - Joins McNeill's scouts to cut off a boer commando from the crest of a hill
May 15, 1900 - (Riding to Pretoria) - As Churchill rides with Hamilton towards Pretoria, "London to Ladysmith via Pretoria" is published
June 1(?), 1900 - South of Johannesburg
June 5, 1900 - Pretoria - Churchill enters in the defeated Boer Capital
June 11, 1900 - Diamond Hill - Violent battle with the boers
June 16, 1900 - Pretoria - Returns to Pretoria, as 3000 of his books are published in the USA
June 20, 1900 - Kopjes Station (100 miles South of Johannesburg) - Train to Cape Town is sabotaged. Churchill helps organizing trip back to Kopjes Station
July 7, 1900 - Cape Town - Churchill leaves South Africa for the last time
July 10, 1900 - South Atlantic Ocean - As Churchill is on his way to england "Vanity Fair" magazine writes about him
July 20, 1900 - Southampton - Churchill arrives in England
July 25, 1900 - Oldham - He is adopted as the prospective candidate for the General Election
August 1(?), 1900 - Oldham - Speaches at Oldham and "a dozen other places"
September 19, 1900 - Oldham - Churchill sets up his campaign Headquarters
October 1, 1900 - Oldham - Poll day in Oldham. Churchill is elected to the Parlament
October 12, 1900 - Churchill publishes "Ian Hamilton's March" bases on the 13 telegraphic reports he sent to the "Morning Post" from South África
October 25, 1900 - Starts another job as lecturer, travelling as far north as Dundee, Dublin and Belfast
November 30, 1900 - Cheltenham - On his 26th birthday, Churchill lectures at Cheltenham
December 1, 1900 - Liverpool - Boards the Steamship "Lucania" to the USA
December 8, 1900 - New York City - Churchill arrives in New York
December 10, 1900 - Albany - Meets Governor Theodore Roosevelt, Vice-President
December 11, 1900 - Philadelphia - Lecture at Philadelphia
December 12, 1900 - New York City - Churchill lectures at the Waldorf-Astoria. Meets Mark Twain
December 17, 1900 - Boston - Takes the night train to Boston
January 22, 1901 - Winnipeg, Canada - Churchill receives the news of Queen Victoria's death
February 2, 1901 - New York City - Sails for England aboard the "Etruria"
February 10, 1901 - Liverpool - Churchill arrives in Britain
February 14, 1901 - London - Takes his seat in the Parlament
February 28, 1901 - London - Maiden speech in the House of Commons

Maiden speech day

April 23, 1901 - Liverpool - Speech to the Liverpool Conservative Association
October 4, 1901 - Saddleworth, Yorkshire - Appeals for a "Supreme Effort" to end the war in South África
January 7, 1902 - Blackpool - Speaks about poverty in Britain to an audience of conservative MPs
April 14, 1902 - House of Commons, London - Budget Debate
September 1(?), 1902 - Balmoral, Scotland - Invited by King Edward VII to Balmoral
October 6, 1902 - Oldham - Visit to Oldham
November 20, 1902 - Southampton(?) - Leaves England for Egypt
December 12, 1902 - Aswan, Egypt - Witnesses the opening of the Aswan Dam
February 24, 1903 - House of Commons, London - Speaks against increase in military spending
November 11, 1903 - Birmingham - Speaker at a trade meeting in Birmingham
December 21, 1903 - Halifax - Speech at Halifax
March 2, 1904 - House of Commons - Speech to the new session of Parlament
May 13, 1904 - Manchester - Speaks to the Liberal Federation
May 31, 1904 - House of Commons - Sits on the liberal Opposition benches in the House of Commons
October 18, 1904 - Carnarvon, Wales
November 10, 1904 - Edinburgh
March 1, 1905 - House of Commons - Criticises the New Secretary of State for War
October 1(?), 1905 - Blenheim Palace, Woodstock - Finishes the Biography of his father
October 13, 1905 - Manchester
October 31, 1905 - Dorset(?) - Dinner with King Edward VII
January 2, 1906 - "Lord Randolph Churchill" is published
January 4, 1906 - Manchester - In Manchester to launch his first election campaign
January 13, 1906 - Manchester - Polling day - Churchill is elected for Manchester as a Junior Minister
July 31, 1906 - House of Commons - Churchill announces the establishment of responsible government for the Transvaal
August 5(?), 1906 - Deauville, Normandy - France - On prolonged Holiday
August 15(?), 1906 - Paris - A few days in Paris to enjoy the nightlife and buy some expensive french books
August 25(?), 1906 - Eichhorn, Moravia - Guest of Baron de Forest
September 1(?), 1906 - Eggishorn, Switzerland
September 5(?), 1906 - Berlin
September 8, 1906 - Breslau - In Silesia as guest of the Kaiser, to watch military manoeuvers
September 14, 1906 - Vienna - Writes to Elgin from Vienna
September 15(?), 1906 - Venice - Arrives in Venice by train (middle of September)
October 11, 1906 - Glasgow - Speech in Glasgow
November 28, 1906 - London - Meets Mahātmā Gandhi in London
December 3, 1906 - London - Churchill informs House of Commons that Secretary of State for Colonies declined to approve Transvaal ordinance
December 17, 1906 - House of Commons - Churchill speaks about Orange Free State being granted a Government in the same lines as Transvaal
February 17, 1907 - London - Churchill informs House of Commons that Natal Government has been refused leave to introduce legislation excluding Asiatics from trading licenses
March 1(?), 1907 - Biarritz, France - Holiday in Biarritz, in one of the houses of Baron de Forest
April 15, 1907 - London - Colonial Prime ministers meet in London
May 8, 1907 - London - Photo taken as Under-secretary of State for the Colonies
August 28, 1907 - London - Departs for his big African travels
September 15(?), 1907 - Angouleme, France - Churchill attends french army manoeuvres
September 18(?), 1907 - Italy
September 22(?), 1907 - Eichhorn, Moravia - Shooting partridge and hare
September 28(?), 1907 - Italy
October(?) 1(?), 1907 - Syracuse, Sicily
October 2, 1907 - Valletta, Malta - Reaches Malta by ship
October 9, 1907 - Cyprus - Arrives in Cyprus in an admiralty cruise, HMS Venus
October 11(?), 1907 - Suez Canal
October 14(?), 1907 - Red Sea
October 20, 1907 - Aden - Departs on the HMS Venus to Berbera
October 27, 1907 - Berbera, Somaliland - Writes a memorandum regarding financial and military situation in Somaliland
October 31(?), 1907 - Mombasa, Kenya - Arrival in Mombasa
November 3, 1907 - Embo - Reaches Embo, with snow-clad Mount Kenya in sight
November 4, 1907 - Thika (NE of Nairobi) - Spends the day hunting lions, but without success
November 5, 1907 - Nairobi, Kenya - Dining with the Governor - Churchill tells his host to advance inland further than Embo
November 17(?), 1907 - Jinja - Reaches Jinja, where the Nile leaves Lake Victoria
November 18, 1907 - Port Alice (Entebbe), Uganda - Churchill reaches the British administration base in Entebbe, where he is received by the colonial administrator Sir Hesketh Bell
December 23, 1907 - Khartoum, Sudan - After a 10-day steamer trip, Churchill reaches Khartoum
January 3, 1908 - Cairo, Egypt - Relaxing in Cairo
January 17, 1908 - London - Churchill returns to London
January 22, 1908 - Manchester - Speech at Manchester
March 1(?), 1908 - London - Meets Clementine Hozier again at a dinner party
April 9, 1908 - London - Churchill accepts the Presidency of the Board of Trade
April 24, 1908 - Manchester - North-West Manchester by-election is held. Churchill looses in a close contest
May 9, 1908 - Dundee - Churchill stands for Paliament from Dundee
July 6, 1908 - St.Jame's Palace - Levee at St. Jame's Palace (Privy Councillor's uniform)
September 12, 1908 - St.Margaret's, Westminster - Churchill marries Clementine Houzier
February 5, 1909 - Newcastle - Churchill speaks abour social change
July 11, 1909 - Clementine gives birth to a daughter, Diana
September 6, 1909 - Leicester - Churchill speaks at Leicester against the intention of the House of Lords to vote against the budget
September 10, 1909 - Metz - Visits the franco-prussian war battlefield of Gravelotte
September 12, 1909 - Strasbourg - Writes to Clementine from Strasbourg
September 13, 1909 - Frankfurt - Arrives at Frankfurt after a long drive
September 14, 1909 - Würzburg - Spends the day at the german military manoeuvers
September 15, 1909 - Würzburg - First conversations with the Kaiser
September 17, 1909 - Würzburg - German army manoeuvers
September 18, 1909 - Blenheim - Churchill visits the site of his ancestor's victory over the french in 1704
October 16, 1909 - Dundee, Scotland - Speaks to his consituents
November 3, 1909 - London - Writes that there was "practically no checks upon german naval expansion"
January 9, 1910 - Leven, Scotland - Speech in Leven
February 15, 1910 - Election results announced: Churchill holds his seat at Dundee
July 20, 1910 - House of Commons, London - Presents his reforms to the commons - one of his intentions was to abolish automatic imprisonment for non-payment of fines
November 18, 1910 - London - Parliament is dissolved and General Elections called
November 22, 1910 - London - Suffragettes and their male supporters demand votes for Women
November 25, 1910 - House of Commons, London - Defends his actions in withholding army troops against riots in Wales
November 26, 1910 - Bradford - After a speach, Churchill is assaulted by a supporter of the suffragettes
November 30, 1910 - Sheffield - Election meeting
May 28, 1911 - Churchill's second child, Randolph, is born
May 30, 1911 - House of Commons, London - Churchill attacks the judges whom he believed had been unfair in Trade Union cases
June 22, 1911 - London - Coronation of King George V - Churchill and Clementine ride in the procession
June 29, 1911 - London - Procession through London with the new King
October 24, 1911 - London - Parliament is reassembled - Churchill is appointed "First Lord of the Admiralty"

First Lord of the Admiralty

November 17, 1911 - Devonport - Churchill launches the battleship "Centurion"
December 9, 1911 - Portsmouth - Inspects the Royal Naval Barracks and submarine school
February 14, 1912 - London - Churchill circulates the new german Navy law to the cabinet
March 18, 1912 - House of Commons, London - Churchill announces that for each german battleship, Britain will build two
May 9, 1912 - Weymouth - In Weymouth for the King's inspection of the fleet
May 15, 1912 - London - Speech in London about the horrors of the war
July 22, 1912 - House of Commons, London - Churchill explains the German Navy Law and Britain's response
April 6, 1913 - Portsmouth - Writes Clementine from Portsmouth
June 28, 1913 - London - At London Hendon Aerodrome for a flying meeting
October 1(?), 1913 - Sheerness - Churchill takes the command of a flying boat for the 1st time during instruction
February 23, 1914 - Portsmouth - Churchill pilots a flying boat
March 14, 1914 - Bradford - Speech in Bradford
March 17, 1914 - House of Commons, London - "Longest and perhaps also the most weighty and eloquent speech to which the House of Commons have listened during the present generation" (Daily Telegraph)
June 1(?), 1914 - Plymouth - Spends the first week of June in Plymouth, then Cherbourg
June 17, 1914 - House of Commons, London - Asks the House of Commons to authorize the purchase of 51% share in the profits of all oil produced by the anglo-Persian Oil company
August 14, 1914 - London - Gets the approval to set up a naval blockade of the german north sea ports
August 24, 1914 - Admiralty, London - Kirchener informs Churchill that the germans took the fortress of Namur, thought impregnable
August 26, 1914 - London - Obtains approval to send the Marine Brigade to Oostende
September 3, 1914 - London - Kitchener asks Churchill to take over the responsability for aerial defence of Britain
September 10, 1914 - Dunkirk - Churchill goes to france in secret, to inspect fortifications, air bases and armour
September 21, 1914 - Liverpool - All-party recruiting rally
September 22, 1914 - Dunkirk - Churchill is at Dunkirk as 3 cruisers are sunk by Weddigen's U-9
October 2, 1914 - London - Departs for France again
October 3, 1914 - Antwerp - Talks with the belgian government, about to flee
October 5, 1914 - Antwerp - Churchill offers himself to resign as First Lord and undertake command of the forces in Antwerp
October 7, 1914 - Dover - Returns to England, via Oostende. Third Child, Sarah, is born
October 8, 1914 - London(?) - Churchill authorises Spencer Grey to bomb Cologne with 4 airplanes and 16 bombs
October 17, 1914 - London(?) - Churchill orders a naval bombardment of the german-held coast
November 2, 1914 - London(?) - Orders the bombardment of forts at the Dardanelles
January 7, 1915 - London(?) - At the War Counsil, Churchill unveils his plans against Borkum Island
January 10, 1915 - Walmer Castle, Kent Coast - Guest of a liberal peer, Lord Beauchamp
January 13, 1915 - London(?) - Churchill explains to the War Counsil the political consequences of a victory in the Dardanelles
January 26, 1915 - London(?) - Churchull secures the French Government's agreement to participate in the Dardanelles Bombardment
February 16, 1915 - London(?) - Emergency meeting at the War Council - Greece didn't allow deployment of british troops
March 10, 1915 - London - War Council - optimism is such that the members discuss territorial aquisitions in Dardanelles
May 6, 1915 - Calais(?) - Churchill arrives in France to negociate Italy's entry the war on the side of the Entente
May 9, 1915 - Aubers Ridge (wounded at Merville convent) - Churchill spends the day at the battle zone
May 10, 1915 - London - Returns to London
May 18, 1915 - London - "The Times" criticizes Churchill  for "his disquieting personal adventures on the Continent"
May 21, 1915 - London - Appeals to Asquith to let him stay at the Admiralty
May 23, 1915 - London - After Asquith's refusal, Churchill leaves the Admiralty
June 5, 1915 - Dundee - Speeks with his constituents
June 18, 1915 - Hoe Farm - Spending Sunday
June 19, 1915 - London - At Downing Street to say goodbye to Asquith, Kitchener and Grey (He was about to be sent to the Dardanelles)
July 1(?), 1915 - London - Moves close to the House of Lords. Request to go to Calais for a inter-ministerial meeting is denied
August 20, 1915 - London - Close to disaster on the Dardanelles, Churchill recommends use of Gas
November 18, 1915 - London - Churchill departs to France in uniform of a Major in the Queen's own Oxfordshire Hussars
November 19, 1915 - La Gorgue - Visits his Division's HQ at La Gorgue
November 20, 1915 - North of Neuve Chapelle - Joins the 2nd Battalion, Grenadier Guards
December 1, 1915 - St. Orner - Returns to French's headquarters
December 5, 1915 - near Arras - Visits the french front line
December 7, 1915 - La Panne (BEL) - visits the point where the trenches reach the coast
December 9, 1915 - St. Orner - Appointed commander of the 56th Brigade with the rank of Brigadier-General
December 18, 1915 - St. Orner - For Political reasons, Asquith takes his rank and command of the brigade
December 28, 1915 - Neuve Chapelle - Observing another point of the front
December 29, 1915 - Vimy Ridge - Observing another point of the front
January 1, 1916 - Merris - Appointed commander of the 6th battalion Royal Scots Fusiliers (9th division) and dines with officers
January 4, 1916 - St. Orner - Formally appointed to his new duties as a Lieutenant-Colonel
January 5, 1916 - Moolenacker - Moves to Moolenacker, where the battalion was
January 23, 1916 - Hazebrouck - Last day in Moolenacker - dinner with officers in Hazebrouck
January 25, 1916 - La Creche - The Battalion arrives to La Creche after 2 days march
January 26, 1916 - Ploegsteert - Churchill arrives to his new HQ, in a hospice inside the village
January 31, 1916 - St. Orner - Meets Lloyd George, Bonar Law and F.E.Smith - Agreement that Asquith had to go
February 10, 1916 - Soyer Farm - Watches Ploegsteert being bombarded by the germans
March 2, 1916 - Boulogne - Churchill hurries to Boulogne, where a destroyer would take him to Dover
March 3, 1916 - London - Back in London for 7-days leave. Starts working on a speech
March 7, 1916 - London - Speech to rouse MPs to a sense of impending danger
March 13, 1916 - Dover - Departs to the front
March 14, 1916 - Ploegsteert - Arrives to Ploegsteert, via Boulogne
May 6, 1916 - Armentieres - Churchill gives his officers a farewell lunch
May 7, 1916 - London - Returns to London
September 28, 1916 - London - Appears before the Dardanelles Commission, submitting documents and arguments to defend his actions
December 25, 1916 - Blenheim - Christmas and New Year with family at Blenheim
May 26, 1917 - Boulogne - Crosses to France
May 27, 1917 - Paris (?)
June 2, 1917 - St. Omer - Arrives at the Front
July 18, 1917 - London - Appointed Minister of Munitions
July 22, 1917 - Lullenden - Meeting with Maurice Hankey
August 15, 1917 - London - Presents his Munitions of War Bill to the Commons
September 12, 1917 - Calais - In France for his first munitions visit
September 13, 1917 - St. Orner - Visit to the front
September 16, 1917 - Arras - Presides over a Munitions conference at Arras
September 17, 1917 - Paris - Reaches Paris. Meets Louis Loucheur, french munitions minister
September 18, 1917 - Dover - Reaches Dover at the end of the day, via Amiens
November 18, 1917 - Paris - Back in Paris to co-ordinate italian munitions needs with the french
December 4, 1917 - Paris(?) - Departs to England
January 19, 1918 - London - Sends Lloyd George an appeal that the army was brought to "full strenght"
February 18, 1918 - Calais(?) - Crosses to France
February 21, 1918 - Vimy - Visiting the trenches
February 23, 1918 - Ploegsteert - Churchill visits his former trenches
February 26, 1918 - Paris - Arrives in Paris
March 5, 1918 - London - Back in London
March 18, 1918 - St. Orner - Crosses to France again
March 19, 1918 - Montreuil | Nurlu - At the british tank headquarters. At the 9th division HQ
March 21, 1918 - Nurlu - German Offensive
March 22, 1918 - St. Orner - Gas Conference
March 23, 1918 - London - Leaves for London, as Nurlu is overrun by the germans
March 28, 1918 - Folkestone
March 29, 1918 - Boulogne - Arrives in Boulogne by destroyer
March 30, 1918 - Beauvais - Meeting with Clemenceau and Foch
April 3, 1918 - Boulogne
April 4, 1918 - London - Back in London
April 27, 1918 - Calais (?) - Crosses back to France
May 18, 1918 - Le Bourget - Churchill institutes the first regular cross-channel air service. Makes first flight
June 6, 1918 - Paris - Letter to Clementine
June 8, 1918 - Compiegne - Churchill visits the french front line north of Compiegne
June 9, 1918 - Paris - Conference in Paris. German long-range shells fall close
July 25, 1918 - London - Meeting with Bonar Law. Proposes to withdraw striker workers' exemption from military servisse
August 8, 1918 - Hesdin - Churchill takes a plane to Hesdin
August 9, 1918 - Flixecourt - Churchill visits General Rawlinson at his Headquarters
August 13, 1918 - Paris - Presides over the inter-allied munitions council
August 16, 1918 - Paris - Churchill and Loucheur agree to provide tank engines and guns to the american 3rd army
August 19, 1918 - Fnivent(?) - At the Front
August 25, 1918 - Lullenden - Takes an airplane to Kenley airfield, then proceeds to Lullenden to be with Family
September 4, 1918 - London - War Cabinet sends a telegram to the Soviet government threatening reprisals against Trotsky, Lenin and other leaders if the lives of british subjects were not safeguarded
September 7, 1918 - Margaret's Bay, near Dover - Seaside excursion with wife and children. Departs to France at dusk
September 8, 1918 - Montreuil - At Haig's Headquarters
September 9, 1918 - Drocourt, East of Vimy - Visiting newly captured german positions
September 12, 1918 - Paris - Letter to Clementine
September 17, 1918 - London - Return to England
September 27, 1918 - Paris - Back in Paris, while the Bulgarian Army surrenders unconditionally
October 7, 1918 - Glasgow - Speaks to munitions workers
October 17, 1918 - Verchocq - As british forces enter Lille, Churchill is again at Verchocq
October 25, 1918 - Lille Area(?) - Churchill visits the newly-liberated áreas
October 26, 1918 - Le Gateau - Visits the battlefield of Le Gateau
October 27, 1918 - Lille - overnight stay
October 28, 1918 - Lille - Present at the saluting stand at a march-past of British Troops
October 29, 1918 - Desselghem | Bruges - Under bombardment at Desselghem. Reaches Bruges for the night
October 30, 1918 - Verchocq - In Verchocq to take the plane to England
October 31, 1918 - London - Back in London
November 6, 1918 - London - Lunch with Lloyd George
November 10, 1918 - London - Churchill is invite to discuss the Allied conditions for Armistice with Germany
November 15, 1918 - London - Birth of Marigold Frances (Churchill's fourth child)
November 26, 1918 - Dundee - Churchill makes a speech to his constituents, warning of the dangers of Bolshevism
January 9, 1919 - London - Churchill is appointed Secretary of State for War and Air
January 12, 1919 - London - Churchill announces his new demobilization scheme
February 12, 1919 - Paris - leaves London for Paris, as the Cabinet's emissary to ask President Wilson and Clemenceau what policy the Paris Peace Conference powers wished to pursue with regard to Russia
February 18, 1919 - London - Meeting with Lloyd George
April 9, 1919 - London - Churchill presses the Government to help put Germany back on its feet, fearful of Communism in eastern europeu
July 18, 1919 - Croydon - Churchill and is flight instructor crash, but survive with minor injuries
August 16, 1919 - London - Leaves England with Clementine for a five-day visit to Cologne, and to the british army in the Rhine
December 31, 1919 - London - Churchill orders the evacuation of the british forces at Batum, on the Black Sea
January 25, 1920 - London - Churchill publishes an article in the "Illustrated Sunday Herald" about Lenin's "diabolical purpose"
August 4, 1920 - London - As bolcheviks advance to a 100 miles of Warsaw - British Ultimatum - withraw or the british fleet would depart for the Baltic
August 13, 1920 - Rugby - Playing Polo
September 1, 1920 - Mimizan, France - Churchill leaves London with Clementine for Mimizan
September 13, 1920 - London - Returns for 6 days in London
September 22, 1920 - Amalfi, Italy - Departs London for Italy, to paint
October(?), 1(?), 1920 - Cassis, South of France - Leaves Italy and travels to Cassis, in France, to paint
October 11, 1920 - London - Returns to London
October 16, 1920 - Dundee - Speech to his constituents denouncing bolsheviks and Sinn Fein in equal measure
November 25, 1920 - Westminster Abbey - With Lloyd George at a memorial service for the 6 officers murdered in Dublin
December 31, 1920 - Lympne - Guest at Philip Sasson's House
January 7, 1921 - Lympne - Churchill accepts to succeed Milner as Colonial Secretary, and take charge of the new Middle East Department
February 6, 1921 - Chequers - Guest at Lloyd George's country house
March 2, 1921 - London - Leaves London for Marseille
March 3, 1921 - Marseille - Takes the ship for Egypt
March 9, 1921 - Alexandria - Arrival in Egypt
March 10(?), 1921 - Aboukir Bay - Visits the scene of Nelson's 1798 victory
March 11, 1921 - Cairo - Arrives in Cairo by train. Conference starts the next day
March 20, 1921 - Pyramids, Egypt - In the Pyramids with T.E.Lawrence
March 23, 1921 - Cairo - Departs to Jerusalém
March 24, 1921 - Gaza - Cheered by the vast arab crowd
March 25, 1921 - Jerusalem - Arrives to Jerusalem
March 27, 1921 - Mount Scopus, Jerusalem - Attends a service of dedication for the 2000 british soldiers buried in the military cemetery 
March 31, 1921 - Alexandria - Churchill arrives in time to catch an italian ship to Genoa
April 6(?), 1921 - Genoa - Arrives in Europe
April 7(?), 1921 - Cap d'Ail, France - Staying in South France for some days
April 25(?), 1921 - London - returns to London - probable date, after stay at Cap d'Ail in France
June 9, 1921 - London - Cabinet meeting - Lloyd George suggests transfer of Palestine and Iraq mandates to the US
July 2, 1921 - Bladon Churchyard - Lady Randolph's funeral
August 24, 1921 - London - Churchill's 2-year old Daughter Marigold dies
September 19, 1921 - Dunrobin, Scotland - Letter to Clementine
October 11, 1921 - London - At Downing Street, in negotiations with the Sinn Fein
November 29, 1921 - London - In Downing Street when the Irish Treaty is handed to Sinn Fein delegates
January 9, 1922 - London - Meeting of the Committee on Defence Estimates. Other meetings on 10th, 12th and 23th
January 27, 1922 - Lymne - Spending weekend
February 10, 1922 - London - In Downing Street
September 16, 1922 - London - Churchill and Lloyd George drafted a Press communique about the urgent need to defend the Dardanelles and the Bosphorus against a 'violent and hostile Turkish aggression'
November 10, 1922 - London - Leaves London for Dundee
November 12, 1922 - Dundee - In Dundee for the General Election
December 3, 1923 - London - Speaks at 3 large election meetings
May 7, 1924 - Liverpool - Addresses 5000 conservatives at the Conservative Meeting
August 31, 1924 - Churt - Meeting with Lloyd George at his house
October 29, 1924 - London(?) - Wins a seat for the Conservatives in Parlament by a majority of more than 9000 votes
November 5, 1924 - London - Accepts office as Chancellor of the Exchequer
January 6, 1925 - Paris - Churchill crosses to Paris, where during a week of negotiations, secures a settlement of the tangle of international war debts

January 29, 1925 – London – Explanation for his gabinet

March 24, 1925 – London - Receives a delegation of Old age pensioners

April 28, 1925 – London - Churchill introduces his first budget

March 20, 1926 – Chartwell - Working on plans for his second budget

April 27, 1926 – London - Introduces his second Budget

August 26, 1926 – London - In Cabinet, speaks approvingly of the miners' desire for a national mininum wage

January 4, 1927 – London - Churchill departs from Britain

January 5(?), 1927 – Genoa

January 7(?), 1927 – Malta

January 10(?), 1927 – Rome - Meeting with Mussolini

January 22, 1927 – Eze, south of France - Letter to Baldwin

January 26, 1927 – Paris - Lunch with Loucheur and several other french politicians, including Vincent Auriol

April 11, 1927 – London - Introduces his third Budget

October 1(?), 1927 – Venice, Italy - Joins Clementine in Venice

December 17, 1927 – London - Churchill's scheme is ready for circulation to the Cabinet. Copies to Chamberlain and Baldwin

January 9, 1928 – Northern France - With his son, hunting wild boar

January 20, 1928 – London - Presents his derating scheme to the Cabinet

April 24, 1928 – London - Delivers his fourth Budget

September 30(?), 1928 – Balmoral, Scotland - Churchill is invited by the King to Balmoral for 4 days' grouse and stag shooting. He meets the two-and-half-year-old Princess Elizabeth

November 30, 1928 – Chartwell - Spends Birthday in Chartwell

February 7, 1929 – London - Emergency Cabinet meeting - according to reports, the germans were building a better battle-cruiser than those Britain had

April 15, 1929 – London - Churchill delivers his fifth Budget

May 6, 1929 – Edinburgh | Glasgow - Speeches in Edinburgh and Glasgow

May 30, 1929 - Conservative Defeat at the Polls

June 10(?), 1929 – London - Starts working on his 4-volume biography of the Duke of Marlborough

August 3, 1929 – Southampton - Churchill departs England with son Randolph on the "Empress of Australia"

August 9, 1929 – Quebec, Canada - Arrival in Quebec

August 12, 1929 – Montreal – Speech in Montreal

August 13, 1929 – Ottawa – Speech in Ottawa

August 16, 1929 – Toronto – Speech in Toronto

August 17, 1929 – Niagara Falls

August 18, 1929 – Winnipeg

August 21, 1929 – Regina

August 22, 1929 – Saskatoon

August 23, 1929 – Edmonton

August 25, 1929 – Calgary – Visits the oilfields

August 27, 1929 – Banff, Canada - Letter to Clementine

September 6, 1929 – Seattle

September 9, 1929 – San Francisco

September 16, 1929 – Vancouver – Speeches in Vancouver

September 17, 1929 – Los Angeles

September 20, 1929 – Hollywood - Dinner with Charlie Chaplin. Promises to write the film script of "the young Napoleon" if Chaplin would play in it

September 26, 1929 – Catalina, NW of Tucson, Arizona

September 27, 1929 – Yosemite Valley

September 29, 1929 – Grand Canyon, Arizona - The Churchills visit the Grand Canyon

October 5, 1929 – Chicago

October 6, 1929 – New York - Travels in Bernard Baruch's railway car to New York

October 10, 1929 – Philadelphia

October 29, 1929 – Bethlehem(?) | New York - Churchill tours the giant plant of Bethlehem Steel. Departs to England

November 5, 1929 – London - Arrival in London

October 30, 1930 – London - Churchill publishes his autobiography "My Early life"

December 12, 1930 – London - Churchill speaks at the first public meeting of the Indian Empire Society, set up to combat Dominion status

January 26, 1931 – London - Churchill speaks in the Indian debate of 26th against the conservatives for the 1st time

March 18, 1931 – Albert Hall, London - Churchill speaks about the politics of negotiations with Gandhi and Nehru - "a crazy dream with a terrible awakening"

August 7, 1931 – Biarritz - Makes his final corrections to "The world in Crisis: The eastern front"

August 16, 1931 – Avignon - Breaks off his holidays and heads to London

August 23, 1931 – Juan-les-pins - Back in France for painting

September 1(?), 1931 – London - Returns to London

September 19, 1931 - Chartwell - Weekend with Charlie Chaplin at Chartwell

November 2, 1931 – London - "The world in Crisis: The eastern front" is published

November 5, 1931 – London - MacDonald announces his new Government. Churchill is not a part of it

December 3, 1931 – London - Leaves England with Clementine and Diana for a longplanned visit to the United States. He was determined to recoup his losses in the Wall Street crash by lecturing, and had contracted to give forty lectures for a guaranteed minimum fee of£10,000. In addition the Daily Mail was paying him £8,000 for a series of articles on life, travel and politics in the United States

December 11, 1931 – New York - Arrival in New York

December 12, 1931 – Worcester, Massachussets - Lecture. Churchill is hit by a car and goes to Hospital

December 28, 1931 – Waldorf Astoria Hotel, New York - Telegraphs a full account of the accident to the "Daily Mail"

January 12, 1932 – Bahamas - Letter from Clementine to Randolph, explaining the severe pains Churchill was feeling

January 25, 1932 – New York - Back in New York by sea

January 28, 1932 – Brooklyn, New York – Lecture

February 8, 1932 – New York - Meeting of bankers and industrialists

February 21, 1932 - Churchill finishes a sequence of lectures in 19 american cities

March 11, 1932 – New York - Churchill departs for Britain

March 17, 1932 – Paddington Station - Eight of Churchill's friends welcome him back

April 30, 1932 – London - Speaks to the Commons during the debate on Neville Chamberlain's first budget

May 8, 1932 – London - First broadcast to the United States

July 1(?), 1932 – Chartwell - During July and August, works on the Marlborough Biography

August 27, 1932 – London(?) | Brussels - Departs for Belgium, Holland and Germany. Churchill and Lindemann are joined by LtCol.Ridley Pakenham-Walsh

August 30(?), 1932 – Munich - Churchill spends 3 days at Munich

September 4(?), 1932 – Blenheim - Visiting the site of his ancestor's battle win

September 11(?), 1932 – Salzburg - Churchill spens 2 weeks at a sanatorium, with paratyphoid fever

September 25, 1932 – Chartwell - Returns to Chartwell

September 27, 1932 – Chartwell - Churchill collapses with a severe haemorrahage from a paratyphoid ulcer. He is taken to a London nursing house

October 30(?), 1932 – London - Completes the first volume of Marlborough's biography

November 23, 1932 – London - Speech to MPs - if Britain forced France to disarm, Germany would take advantage of her own numerical superiority to seek revenge for the defeat of 1918

November 30, 1932 – Chartwell - Lindemann arrives to pay Churchill a visit

February 17, 1933 – Oxford - Speech in Oxford

April 7, 1933 – London - Churchill warns the Government of the dangers involved in a militarized Germany

August 12, 1933 – London - Speach to his constituents: "There is grave reason to believe that Germany is arming herself or seeking to arm herself, contrary to the solemn treaties extracted from her in her hour of defeat

October 6, 1933 – Birmingham - First Volume of "Marlborough: His life and Times" is published. Conservative Party Conference

November 7, 1933 – London - Speech to the Commons: The great dominant fact is that Germany has already begun to rearm

November 30, 1933 – Chartwell - Anniversary in Chartwell

January 16, 1934 – London - Broadcast by Churchill, praising the Government and Pres.Roosevelt

February 7, 1934 – London - Tells the Commons: 'I cannot conceive how, in the present state of Europe and our position in Europe, we can delay in establishing the principle of having an air force at least as strong as any power that can get at us,'

March 21, 1934 – London - Churchill advocates the creation of a "Ministry of Defence" to coordinate the army, navy and Air Force

July 30, 1934 – London - Speach to the Commons: at the present time we are the fifth or sixth air Power in the world'. At the existing rate of building, Britain would be 'worse off in 1939 relatively than we are now - and it is relativity that counts

August 1(?), 1934 – near Cannes - Spends 3 weeks at Maxine Elliott's Chateau de l'Horizon

August 28, 1934 – Cannes - Leaves Cannes by car, heading to Grenoble

September 25, 1934 – Chartwell - Departs for the Mediterranean with Clementine aboard Lord Moyne's Yacht "Rosaura"

November 16, 1934 – London - Churchill broadcasts about Germany: The Nazis, he said, were seeking 'the submission of races by terrorising and torturing their civil population'

November 28, 1934 – London - Speech about rearmament

December 7(?), 1934 – Beirut, Lebanon - Arrival in Beirut

December 8(?), 1934 – Petra, Jordania - Stays overnight

December 9(?), 1934 – Cairo - Arrival in Cairo by plane. Stays 2 days painting near the Pyramids

December 12(?), 1934 – Alexandria - Departs to Naples

December 15(?), 1934 – Naples - Arrival in Naples

December 17(?), 1934 – Paris - Arrival in Paris, by train

December 18(?), 1934 – Croydon - Arrival in Britain, by plane

April 7, 1935 – Chartwell - Ralph Wigram, head of the central department at the Foreign Office, brings information showing that the German aircraft factories 'are already practically organised on an emergency war-time footing'

May 31, 1935 – London - Churchill draws attention of the Commons of the situation in Austria, Hungary and Bulgaria, which are admiring Hitler

July 25, 1935 – London - Churchill accepts becoming a member of the Air Defence Research sub-Committee. There he learns of the success, on 24th, of a series of experiments for locating enemy aircraft by radio-location (radar)

September 1(?), 1935 – near Cannes - Painting at Maxine Elliott's Chateau

September 30(?), 1935 – Chartwell - Returns to Chartwell

October 4, 1935 – Bournemouth - Conservative Party Conference - Churchill urges the conversion of industry for defence purposes

December 6(?), 1935 – London - Churchill, again, is not chosen for the new Government

December 10, 1935 – London | Paris - Departs for Paris with Clementine

December 11(?), 1935 – Barcelona - Arrival in Barcelona by train

December 12(?), 1935 – Majorca, Spain - Arrival in Majorca by boat

December 20, 1935 – Tangiers - Reaches Tangiers

December 30, 1935 – Marrakech - Spends a few hours with Lloyd George

January 8, 1936 – Marrakech – Letter to Clementine

January 26, 1936 – London – Returns to London

March 10, 1936 – London - Speaks to the Commons - Industry should start preparing for war

March 12, 1936 – London - Churchill urges a coordinated plan under the League of Nations to help France challenge the german action in the Rhineland

March 15, 1936 – Chartwell - Churchill receives a copy of the secret final dispatch of Sir Horace Rumbold, the British Ambassador to Berlin at the time Hitler had come to power. It

warned of the intensity of Hitler's territorial ambitions.

March 26, 1936 – London - Churchill asks the Commons: "Will Austria be next?"

April 6, 1936 – London - Speaks to the Commons - geo-strategical options of a newly militarized germany

April 19, 1936 – Chartwell - In a lunch with Hankey, Churchill stresses the need of a munitions/armaments minister

July 28, 1936 – London(?) - Discrete meeting with Chamberlain, Amery and Baldwin to discuss Defence

December 4, 1936 - Churchill visits the new King Edward VIII to try to convince him not to abdicate the throne to marry Wallis Simpson, an american woman about to divorce her second husband

December 25, 1936 – Chartwell - Christmas and New Year's Eve in Chartwell

January 4, 1937 – Uckfield - Churchill attends the funeral of Ralph Wigram, a Foreign Office friend

March 4, 1937 – London - Defence Debate

March 29, 1937 – Cap Martin, France - Churchill arrives in Cap Martin to rest for a week, paint and gamble

May 31, 1937 – London - Caxton Hall meeting - Eulogy for Austen Chamberlain

July 9, 1937 – Biggin Hill - Churchill visits a Royal Air Force station to watch an interception exercise

September 17, 1937 – Chartwell - Churchill appeals to Hitler in a newspaper article to abandon the persecution of jews

January 2, 1938 – London - Churchill leaves England for another holiday at Maxine Elliot's Chateau de l'Horizon

March 14, 1938 – London - Debate in the Commons about the vote in Austria

March 25, 1938 – Paris - Churchill flies to Paris and meets french leaders, stressing the need for an alliance

August 19, 1938 – Chartwell - Churchill receives Ewald von Kleist, a german officer part of an anti-nazi group

September 2, 1938 – Chartwell - Soviet Ambassador, Ivan Maisky, visits Churchill

September 7, 1938 – Downing Street, London - Churchill unsucessfully presses Prime Minister Chamberlain to demand an ultimatum to Hitler if he sets foot on Czechoslovakia

September 11, 1938 – Downing Street, London - Churchill unsucessfully presses again Prime Minister Chamberlain to demand an ultimatum to Hitler if he sets foot on Czechoslovakia

September 26, 1938 – Downing Street, London - Churchill unsucessfully presses again Prime Minister Chamberlain to demand an ultimatum to Hitler if he sets foot on Czechoslovakia

October 5, 1938 – London - Very dark speech by Churchill about the fate of Czechoslovakia

November 17, 1938 – London - Speech to the Commons one week after the "Kristallnacht"

January 7, 1939 – Paris - Churchill flies to Paris - Lunch with Reynaud. Sees former prime-minister Leon Blum and takes the train to Southern France

January 26(?), 1939 – London - Back in England

April 7, 1939 – Chartwell - Churchill receives the news of the Italian invasion of Albania

April 8, 1939 – Downing Street, London - Churchill urges Chamberlain to occupy the greek island of Corfu to deter the italians

June 22, 1939 - Daily Telegraph article - The Germans are intensifying their demands on Poland and Danzig

August 8, 1939 - Radio broadcast to the United States

August 10, 1939 – Biggin Hill - Visit to the Royal Air Force station to watch fighter exercises

August 14, 1939 – Paris - Churchill flies to Paris. Visit to the Maginot Line

August 17, 1939 – Dreux, France - Painting at the Chateau St Georges Motel

August 23, 1939 – London - Returns to London - Fleet is ordered to its war stations

September 1, 1939 – London - War Cabinet meeting with Chamberlain at evening, after news of Poland

September 3, 1939 – London - Chamberlain offers the post of First Lord of the Admiralty to Churchill - he accepts

September 4, 1939 – London - Churchill starts proposing military actions at the War Cabinet

September 6, 1939 – London - Churchill is appointed to the War Cabinet Committee to determine the size of Britain's land forces and the rate at which their equipment should be completed
September 15, 1939 - Loch Ewe, Scotland - HMS Hood arrives at Loch Ewe for recreation time. The ship is visited by Winston Churchill

September 16, 1939 – Scapa Flow - Churchill arrives in Scapa Flow by train for a visit, during the night

September 26, 1939 – London - Speech to the Commons - short survey of the war at sea (resembling to all eyes, the leader they were looking for)

October 1, 1939 – London - First wartime radio broadcast

October 4, 1939 – St.John’s Smith Square, London - Attends the Wedding of his son Randolph with 19-year old Pamela Digby

October 8, 1939 – London - Proposes the creation of a "Home Guard" of half a million men over 40 years old

October 14, 1939 – London - Churchill receives the news of the sinking of the "Royal Oak" and cries

October 31, 1939 – Greenock, Scotland | Scapa Flow, Orkney Islands - HMS Hood arrives at Greenock and is visited by Winston Churchill. Later in the day, the british Prime-Minister visits Scapa Flow with instructions for improvements

November 2, 1939 – Paris - Crosses to France by destroyer, to offer the french navy a new submarine-detection device

November 7, 1939 – London - Speech to the Commons - the loss of the "Royal Oak" and sinking of british ships

December 17, 1939 – London - Churchill broadcasts news from Uruguay, where the pocket cruiser "Graf Spee" blew up

January 6, 1940 – Dover - Churchill departs to France in the destroyer "Codrington"

January 7, 1940 – La Ferte, near Rheims - Visit to the HQ of the british advanced air striking force

January 8, 1940 – Arras - Lunch with Lord Gort and visit to various military units

January 9, 1940 – London - Back in London

January 12, 1940 – London - The War Cabinet decides against attacking german iron-ore traffic from Narvik

February 5, 1940 – Paris - Supreme War Council, with Lord Halifax, Daladier, Cadogan, Chamberlain and Kingsley Wood
March 8, 1940 - Scapa Flow, Orkney Islands - HMS Hood is visited again by Winston Churchill 
April 12, 1940 - London - Churchill urges that "the most intense efforts shoube be concentrated upon Hood, as we may need all our strenght to meet an italian threat or attack" (HMS Hood docked for repairs on April 4th)
April 13, 1940 - London - Churchill explodes with rage when informed that HMS Hood's planed 35-day refit would take 11 weeks

May 10, 1940 – Buckingham Palace, London - Churchill is asked by King George VI to form a Government - Prime-Minister!

May 13, 1940 – Admiralty House, London - Churchill summons his ministers - Objective: Victory at any cost

May 16, 1940 – Downing Street, London - Churchill receives news that the germans crossed the Maginot line

May 22, 1940 – Paris | London - In France to persuade the french to link up with the isolated british force. Returns on the same day to London

May 31, 1940 – Paris - Supreme War Council, with Attlee, Reynaud and General Dill

June 1, 1940 – London - Back in London

June 4, 1940 – London - Famous speech to the Commons, worth "1,000 guns & the speeches of 1,000 years"

June 10, 1940 - Paris | Tours - Meeting with french Under-Secretary of State Charles de Gaulle

June 11, 1940 – Chateau de Muguet, River Loire – France - Meeting with the French Cabinet in disarray

June 12, 1940 – London - Flies back to Britain

June 13, 1940 – Tours, France - Churchill departs to France from Hendon, during storm and thunderstorms, for a conference with Charles de Gaulle

June 15, 1940 – London - Telegram to Roosevelt, urging the US to enter the war to save France

August 16, 1940 – Uxbridge - Churchill follows the Battle of England from the operations room of 11 Group, Fighter command

August 28, 1940 – Dover | Ramsgate - Inspection of Harbour defences

September 16, 1940 – Board of Trade building, London - Churchill moves to a fortified house in the Board of Trade building

September 24, 1940 - London - Churchill writes to portuguese prime-minister Salazar to congratulate him for his policy of keeping Portugal out of the war, avowing that "as so often before during the many centuries of the Anglo-Portuguese alliance, British and Portuguese interests are identical on this vital question."

September 25, 1940 – London - Journey down the Thames River to inspect the damage done to the docks

October 9, 1940 – London - Churchill accepts the Leadership of the Conservative Party

November 14, 1940 – Westminster Abbey, London - Churchill is on of the pall-bearers at Neville Chamberlain's funeral

January 10, 1941 – London - Churchill welcomes Roosevelt's emissary, Harry Hopkins

January 17, 1941 – Glasgow - Travels with Hopkins to Scotland

January 18(?), 1941 – Dover - Visit to Dover to show Hopkins the Cliffs across the Channel

March 7, 1941 – London - War Cabinet Meeting - it is decided to move 60,000 troops from Egypt to Greece

March 8, 1941 - Chequers, Ellesborough - Charles de Gaulle stays two days at Chequers with Winston Churchill

April 12, 1941 – Bristol - Visit to Bristol for an honorary degree ceremony, after a german air raid

April 23, 1941 – London - Churchill receives a letter from 15-year old Princess Elizabeth

May 2, 1941 – Plymouth - Visit to the bombed areas of Plymouth

May 24, 1941 – Chequers, Ellesborough - Churchill receives news of the sinking of "HMS Hood"

May 27, 1941 – London - Churchill receives news of the sinking of the "Bismarck"

June 6, 1941 – Southern England - Watches the first Flying Fortress arrive to England from the United States

July 7, 1941 – London - Telegram to Stalin

August 3, 1941 – Thurso, Scotland - Churchill boards the "Prince of Wales"

August 10, 1941 – Placentia Bay, Newfoundland - Aboard the "Prince of Wales" with Roosevelt

September 25, 1941 – Manston Aerodrome - Visit to 615 squadron. Tea with pilots

December 12, 1941 – River Clyde, Scotland - Churchill departs from London to Scotland. Boards the "Duke of York" to the United States

December 22, 1941 – Hampton Roads, Virginia - Churchill arrives in the United States. Flies to the White House

December 26, 1941 – Washington D.C. - Churchill addresses the US Congress

December 30, 1941 – Ottawa, Canada - Churchill addresses the Canadian Parliament. After addressing the parliamentarians, Churchill attends a dinner party given by Prime-Minister Mackenzie King at Laurier House. After dinner, Air Vice-Marshal Billy Bishop, 72-victories ace in World War 1, takes him to his house for drinks and to swap war stories

January 1, 1942 – Washington D.C. - Churchill agrees to a declaration prepared by Roosevelt to be issued by the UN

January 2, 1942 – Washington D.C. - Meeting to determine the scale of US war production in 1942 and 1943

January 5, 1942 – Pompano, North of Miami - Churchill flies to Florida to recuperate by the sea in a secluded bungalow

January 12, 1942 – Washington D.C. - The Conference with Roosevelt ends

January 14, 1942 – Bermuda - Churchill takes the controls of a flying boat to Bermuda

January 15, 1942 – London - Churchill arrives in Britain and is almost shot down over Plymouth

February 14, 1942 – London - Churchill authorizes the surrender of commonwealth forces in Singapore

May 15, 1942 – Leeds - Speech in Leeds

June 17, 1942 – Stranraer, Scotland - Churchill arrives in Stranraer by train. Boards a flying boat to the US

June 18, 1942 – Anacostia Naval Air Base, Washington D.C. - After a refuelling stop in Newfoundland, Churchill lands in Washington

June 19, 1942 – New Hackensack | Hyde Park, Hudson River - Churchill meets Roosevelt

June 21, 1942 – Washington D.C. - Roosevelt and Churchill arrive at dawn in Washington by train

June 24, 1942 – Camp Jackson, South Carolina - Watches a battalion of american troops doing parachute drops

June 25, 1942 – Baltimore - Churchill boards his flying boat

July 1, 1942 – London - Churchill faces a vote of censure against him in the House of Commons

July 14, 1942 – London - While planning for a Cairo trip, Churchill is informed that nearly 400,000 tons of shipping were sunk in the Arctic and Atlantic

July 31, 1942 – Farnborough - Churchill goes to Farnborough for a special oxygen mask test

August 1, 1942 – Cairo, Egypt - Churchill reaches Cairo (via Gibraltar) aboard a US B-24 flying at 15,000 feet unpressurized

August 4, 1942 – El Alamein, Egypt - Visit to the troops in El Alamein

August 5, 1942 – Cairo, Egypt - Back to Cairo

August 10, 1942 – Teheran, Iran - Churchill arrives in Teheran, after another unpressurized flight aboard a US B-24

August 12, 1942 – Moscow - Churchill arrives in Moscow for the "Moscow Conference"

August 17, 1942 – Cairo, Egypt - Returns to Cairo

August 24, 1942 – London - Churchill returns to London

September 12, 1942 – Chequers - Churchill hosts Generals Clark and Eisenhower at Chequers

November 15, 1942 - Churchill orders church bells to be ring throughout England to celebrate the victory in the Western Desert

January 12, 1943 – Casablanca, Morocco - Churchill takes a flight to Casablanca

January 24, 1943 – Marrakech, Morocco - Churchill shows Roosevelt his holiday haunt of 1936

January 27, 1943 – Cairo, Egypt - Churchill takes a flight to Cairo

January 30, 1943 – Adana, Turkey - Churchill takes a flight to Adana to hold talks with the turkish prime-minister

February 2, 1943 – Cairo, Egypt - Churchill returns to Cairo and rejoices after hearing the news from Stalingrad

February 3, 1943 – Tripoli, Libya - Churchill visits the 8th Army at Tripoli

February 5, 1943 – Algiers - Arrival in Algiers aboard a bomber

February 7, 1943 – Lyneham - Churchill arrives in England aboard a B-24

February 8, 1943 – London - Return to London by train after midnight

March 21, 1943 – Chequers - After almost a month of pnemonia, Churchill broadcasts for the 1st time in year

May 4, 1943 – Clyde, Scotland - Churchill takes a train to the Clyde and Boards the "Queen Mary"

May 7, 1943 – Atlantic Ocean - Churchill receives news of the fall of Tunis and Bizerte. Orders church bells to ring again

May 11, 1943 – New York City - Aboard the "Queen Mary" approaching the United States

May 12, 1943 – Shangri-La (Camp David), Maryland - Roosevelt takes Churchill to his mountain retreat in Maryland

May 14, 1943 – Washington D.C. - Churchill and Roosevelt return to Washington

May 19, 1943 – Washington D.C. - Churchill addresses the american Congress

May 26, 1943 – Newfoundland, Canada - Churchill boards a flying boat to Newfoundland, on his way to Eisenhower in Africa

May 27, 1943 – Gibraltar - Churchill lands in Gibraltar

May 28, 1943 – Algiers, Algeria - Churchill flies to Algiers aboard a V.I.P. Lancaster bomber

June 1, 1943 – Tunis, Tunisia - Visit to the Roman Amphitheatre of Carthage (Tunis) and an american flying squadron

June 3, 1943 – Algiers, Algeria - At Eisenhower's HQ, with Montgomery, Marshall, Tedder, Alexander and King

June 4, 1943 – Gibraltar - Churchill boards the V.I.P. Lancaster to London

June 5, 1943 – London - Back in London

July 9, 1943 – Chequers - At Chequers awaiting news of the Sicily landings

August 5, 1943 – Clyde, Scotland - Churchill takes the Train to Clyde and boards the "Queen Mary" to Halifax, Canada

August 9, 1943 – Halifax, Canada - Churchill arrives in Canada. Takes train to Quebec

August 10, 1943 – Quebec - Arrival in Quebec

August 17, 1943 – Quebec - Churchill receives news of the total liberation of Sicily

August 20, 1943 – Grand Lac d’Epaule - Fishing and discussing the merits of Sumatra and Burma as next british objectives

August 24, 1943 – Quebec - End of the Quebec Conference. Departs to rest at La Cabane de Montmorency

August 31, 1943 – Quebec - Broadcast to the canadian people

September 1, 1943 – Washington D.C. - Churchill arrives in Washington by train. Learns that the italian government had agreed to the Allied terms of surrender

September 6, 1943 – Boston - Visit to Boston to receive an honorary degree at Harvard

September 8, 1943 – Washington D.C. - Churchill learns of the formal surrender of the italian armed forces to the Allies

September 14, 1943 – Halifax, Canada - Arrival in Halifax by train. Boards the battleship "Renown"

September 19, 1943 – Clyde, Scotland - The "Renown" arrives in the Clyde

September 20, 1943 – London - Back in London
November 11, 1943 - Plymouth - Churchill takes the train to Plymouth and boards the battleship "Renown"
November 14(?), 1943 - Gibraltar
November 16, 1943 - Algiers - The "Renown" arrives in Algiers
November 17, 1943 - Malta - The "Renown" arrives in Malta

November 19, 1943 – Malta - Churchill inspects the damage done by a bombardment

November 21, 1943 – Alexandria, Egypt - The "Renown" arrives in Alexandria

November 23, 1943 – Cairo, Egypt - The Cairo Conference begins. Churchill takes Roosevelt to the Pyramids

November 27, 1943 – Teheran, Iran - Churchill and Roosevelt arrive in Teheran aboard different airplanes

November 28, 1943 – Teheran, Iran - First meeting of Churchill, Roosevelt and Stalin

December 2, 1943 – Cairo, Egypt - Churchill flies back to Cairo

December 10, 1943 – Carthage, Tunisia - Churchill flies to Tunisia. Lands in wrong airport. Meets Eisenhower. Pneumonia

December 17, 1943 – Carthage, Tunisia - Clementine arrives to see Churchill, after he suffered a mild heart attack

December 23, 1943 – Carthage, Tunisia - Churchill is visited by Eisenhower, after a second mild heart attack

December 27, 1943 – Marrakech, Morocco - Churchill flies to Marrakech with an oxygen mask and medical care

December 31, 1943 – Marrakech, Morocco - Eisenhower and Montgomery reach Marrakech to discuss "Overlord" plans with Churchill

January 12, 1944 – Marrakech, Morocco - Churchill receives Charles de Gaulle as his guest

January 14, 1944 – Gibraltar - Churchill arrives in Gibraltar by plane. Boards the battleship "King George V"

January 17, 1944 – Plymouth - Arrival in Britain

January 18, 1944 – London - Arrives in London by train
March 23, 1944 - Aldbourne, Wiltshire - The 2nd and 3rd Battalion of the 506th PIR make a combined jump during an inspection by Prime-minister Churchill, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Omar Bradley and Gen. Maxwell Taylor

March 31, 1944 – Yorkshire - Visiting troops in training for Operation Overlord

April 21, 1944 – London - Speech to the Commons about India becoming a self-governing Dominion

May 15, 1944 - St.Paul's School, London - Final briefing for the invasion of Normandy at St.Paul's School in London, with the presence of the King, Churchill, Smuts, Eisenhower, Ramsey, Leigh-Mallory, Patton, Spaatz and Omar Bradley

June 3, 1944 – Southampton - Watches troops embarking on their landing craft

June 4, 1944 – London - Back in London

June 12, 1944 – Dover - Churchill arrives in Dover by train

June 13, 1944 – Courseulles | Cruelly - Churchill meets Montgomery at Courseulles. Meeting in Montgomery's HQ in Cruelly

June 14, 1944 – Portsmouth - Churchill returns to Britain aboard a destroyer

June 15, 1944 – London - Back in London

July 20, 1944 – Cherbourg - Churchill flies to Cherbourg to visit an unfinished flying-bomb site

July 21, 1944 – Blay | Villers-Bocage - Visiting troops and instalations with Montgomery

July 22, 1944 – London - Churchill flies to London

August 10, 1944 – Algiers - Churchill flies to Algiers to meet Alexander

August 12, 1944 – Naples, Italy - Telegram to Stalin urging him to help the poles in Warsaw

August 17, 1944 – Siena, Italy - Churchill drives to Cassino and then flies to Siena, to Alexander's HQ

August 21, 1944 – Rome - Churchill flies to Rome

August 23, 1944 – Siena, Italy - At Alexander's HQ

August 27, 1944 – Naples - Flight back to Naples

August 28, 1944 – Rabat, Morocco - Stop in Rabat for a night

August 29, 1944 – London - Returns to London, with Pneumonia again

September 5, 1944 – Greenock, Clyde – Scotland - Churchill takes a train to Greenock and boards the "Queen Mary"

September 10, 1944 – Halifax, Canada - The "Queen Mary" arrives in Canada

September 12, 1944 – Quebec - Churchill and Roosevelt meet in Quebec

September 20, 1944 – New York City - Churchill embarks on the "Queen Mary"

September 26, 1944 – Greenock, Clyde – Scotland - The "Queen Mary" arrives in Britain

September 27, 1944 – London - Back in London

October 3, 1944 – London - Churchill takes Clementine to the Theatre. Lawrence Olivier in "Anns and the Man"

October 4, 1944 – London - Churchill takes Clementine to the Theatre. Lawrence Olivier in Shakespeare's"Richard III"

October 7, 1944 – Naples, Italy - Churchill flies to Naples

October 9, 1944 – Moscow - Churchill arrives in Moscow

October 18, 1944 – Simferopol, Crimea - Churchill has dinner in Crimea, on his way to Naples

October 19, 1944 – Cairo | Naples - Churchill reaches Naples, via Cairo and Benghazi (to avoid german-held Crete)

October 22, 1944 – London - Churchill returns to London

November 4, 1944 – Chequers - Churchill has lunch with Dr Weizmann, the zionist leader

November 10, 1944 – Paris - Churchill flies to Paris

November 11, 1944 – Paris - Churchill is guest of honor on the Armistice Day parade through the Arc de Triomphe

November 13, 1944 – London - Back in London

December 3, 1944 – London - Churchill protest to Tito about his refusal to allow british warships to dock at Split and Sibenik

December 25, 1944 – Naples | Kalamaki Airport - Churchill flies to Naples on Christmas day. Reaches Greece in the afternoon

December 26, 1944 – Phaleron Bay, Greece - Churchill goes aboard "HMS Ajax"

December 28, 1944 – Naples - Spends the night in Naples

December 29, 1944 – London - Back in London

January 3, 1945 – Outside Paris - Flies to Eisenhower's HQ outside Paris

January 4, 1945 – near Ghent - Meets Montgomery on his HQ

January 12, 1945 – London - Montgomery, in a public speech, belittles the american contribution in the Ardennes battle - Churchill is furious!

January 30, 1945 – Malta - Churchill reaches Malta, on his way to Yalta

February 2, 1945 – Yalta, Crimea - Churchill arrives in Yalta

February 13, 1945 – Sevastopol - Churchill boards the "Franconia" to work

February 14, 1945 – Athens - Churchill arrives in Athens. Flies to Cairo, then by car to Alexandria

February 15, 1945 – Alexandria, Egypt - Churchill meets Roosevelt for the last time, aboard the US cruiser "Quincy"

February 17, 1945 – Lake Fayyum - Churchill gives a banquet to King Ibn Saud of Saudi Arabia

February 18, 1945 – Cairo, Egypt - Returns to Cairo

February 19, 1945 – London - Returns to London

February 24, 1945 – Chequers - Lunch with President Benes of Czechoslovakia

March 2, 1945 – Eindhoven | Geldrop - Churchill flies to Holland, via Brussels, to meet Montgomery

March 3, 1945 – Jülich, Germany - Churchill visits the Siegfried Line

March 6, 1945 – London - Back in London

March 23, 1945 – Venlo, Netherlands - Churchill flies to the Netherlands

March 24, 1945 – Ginderich - Churchill watches Montgomery's offensive begin

March 25, 1945 – Straelen - Churchill spends the day watching the front from a small airplane

March 28, 1945 – Nordholt - Saying goodbye to Clementine, who was going to Russia in a Red Cross mission

May 23, 1945 – Buckingham Palace, London - Churchill tenders his resignation to the King

July 7, 1945 – Bordeaux | Chateau de Bordaberry - Churchill flies to Bordeaux, then by car to Bordaberry for a week's rest

July 15, 1945 – Berlin | Potsdam - Churchill flies from Bordeaux to Berlin. Montgomery, Attlee, Eden and Alexander are waiting for him

July 16, 1945 – Potsdam - First meeting between Churchill and Truman

July 18, 1945 – Potsdam - Lunch with Truman. Dinner with Stalin

July 21, 1945 – Berlin - Churchill attends a british Victory Parade

July 24, 1945 – Potsdam - Churchill gives a banquet to Stalin and Truman. Dinner with Mountbatten

July 25, 1945 – London - Back in London

July 27, 1945 – Buckingham Palace, London - After loosing the elections, Churchill tenders his resignation to the King

September 2, 1945 – Villa delle Rose, Lake Como – Italy - Churchill flies to Italy to rest

September 19, 1945 – Villa Pirelli, 18 miles east of Genoa - Churchill continues his rest at the seashore

September 23, 1945 – Antibes, France - Churchill moves to a Villa in France

September 27, 1945 – London - Returns to London

November 16, 1945 – Brussels - Speech to the Belgian Senate

January 8, 1946 – Buckingham Palace, London - Churchill is awarded the Order of Merit from the King

January 9, 1946 – Southampton - Churchill departs with Clementine aboard the "Queen Elizabeth" for the United States

January 14, 1946 – New York City - Arrival in the United States. Churchill takes a train to Miami Beach

January 16, 1946 – Miami Beach - Arrives in Miami Beach. Churchill gives a press conference

February 1, 1946 – Havana, Cuba - Churchill, Clementine and daughter fly to Havana

February 8, 1946 – Miami Beach - Back in Miami Beach

February 10, 1946 – Washington D.C. - Flies to Washington. Dinner with Truman

February 12, 1946 – Washington D.C. - Lunch with Eisenhower at the British Embassy

February 13, 1946 – Miami Beach - Back in Miami Beach

February 25, 1946 – Miami - Speech to 17,000 people in the Burdine Stadium

March 1, 1946 – Washington D.C. - Churchill arrives in Washington by train

March 5, 1946 – Fulton, Missouri - Churchill and Truman arrive in Missouri by train

March 7, 1946 – Washington D.C. - Back in Washington

March 8, 1946 – University of Virginia - Lecture with presence of Eisenhower

March 12, 1946 – New York City - Churchill is attacked by the newspaper "Pravda"

March 20, 1946 – New York City - The Churchills depart for Britain aboard the "Queen Mary"

March 26, 1946 – London - Back in London

August 23, 1946 – Villa Choisi, Lake Geneva – Switzerland - Churchill flies to Switzerland to prepare a speech about a united Europe

September 19, 1946 – Zürich - Speech at the University of Zürich

October 5, 1946 – Blackpool - Speech at Blackpool

February 11, 1947 – St.Margaret’s, Westminster - Churchill attend the marriage of his daughter Mary

May 20, 1947 – Chartwell - Churchill is visited by Attlee and Lord Mountbatten

August 4, 1947 – Blenheim - Conservative Rally

November 5, 1947 - Speaks against the Burma Independence Bill

December 6, 1947 – Manchester - Churchill receives the Freedom of Manchester

December 10, 1947 – Paris | Marrakech - Churchill flies to Paris, then to Marrakech

December 12, 1947 – Marrakech – Letter to Clementine

January 18, 1948 – Marrakech - Churchill departs to Britain

January 22, 1948 – London - Speech to the Commons about conflict with Soviet Union

May 7, 1948 – The Hague - Inaugural meeting of the Congress of Europe - Churchill pleas for letting "national rancours and revenges" die

May 9, 1948 – Amsterdam - Speech in Amsterdam

June 2, 1948 – Savoy Hotel, London - Lunch in Churchill's honor

August 22, 1948 – Aix-en-Provence - Churchill and Clementine travel to Aix-en-Provence

September 20, 1948 – La Capponcina, Côte d’azur – France - Churchill moves to Beaverbrook's Villa in the Côte d'Azur

October 2, 1948 – Chartwell - Returns to Chartwell

October 5, 1948 – Biggin Hill - Speech to the 615 Squadron

October 9, 1948 – Llandudno, North Wales - Conservative Party Rally

December 27, 1948 – Paris - Departs to Paris and Monte Carlo

January 13, 1949 – Chartwell - Back in England

February 26, 1949 – Brussels - Speech to the Council of the European Movement for the Creation of a European Court of Human Rights

March 18, 1949 – Southampton(?) - Departs to the united States aboard the "Queen Elizabeth"

March 25, 1949 – New York City - Speech in New York, praising the recently signed Atlantic Pact

March 31, 1949 – Boston - Speech at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology

April 4(?), 1949 – New York City - Boards the "Queen Elizabeth" to Britain

April 10(?), 1949 – Southampton(?) - Return to Britain

August 17, 1949 – Strasbourg - Speech for the Inaugural meeting of the Council of Europe

August 23, 1949 – La Capponcina, Côte d’azur – France - With film Star Merle Oberon as guest

August 31, 1949 – Chartwell - Return to Chartwell, after a mild stroke

October 13, 1949 – London - Speech at the Conservative Trades Union Congress

October 19, 1949 – Bristol - Delivers the Chancellor's address at the honorary degree ceremony

October 21, 1949 – London - Speech at the annual Alamein Reunion in the Albert Hall

November 2, 1949 – London - Speech at the National Book Exhibition

December 29, 1949 – Madeira Island, Portugal - Churchill flies to Madeira

January 12, 1950 – London - Churchill leaves Madeira in a hurry because of General Elections on February 23

February 14, 1950 – Edinburgh - Speech in Edinburgh

February 16, 1950 – Chartwell - Rumours spread that Churchill had died. He shows himself at a press conference later

March 8, 1950 – London - Speech to the Commons - time had come for west germany to take part in Western defence

August 6, 1950 – Strasbourg - Flies to Strasbourg for the Council of Europe

August 11, 1950 – Strasbourg - Speech to The Council of Europe about the Russian Communist Aggression

August 26, 1950 – Chartwell - Returns to Britain

October 10, 1950 – Copenhagen - Churchill flies to Copenhagen to receive an honorary degree from the University of Copenhagen

October 12(?), 1950 – London - Back in Britain

December 25, 1950 – Marrakech - Letter to Clementine

January 1, 1951 – Tinehir, Atlas Mountains, Morocco - Painting for two days at Tinerhir

January 3, 1951 – Marrakech - Back in Marrakech

January 20, 1951 – London - Returns to London

May 18, 1951 – Glasgow - Rebukes the Labour benches for their pro-Chinese and anti-American sentiments

August 15, 1951 – Annécy, France - Churchill joins Clementine at Annecy. Later departs to Venice

September 12, 1951 – London - Back in England

October 2, 1951 – Liverpool - First speech of the new Campaign

October 23, 1951 – Plymouth - Speech at election meeting

October 26, 1951 – Buckingham Palace, London - The King asks Churchill to form a Government

October 30, 1951 – London - The first Cabinet of Churchill's peacetime administration meets

December 31, 1951 – Southampton - Churchill departs for the United States aboard the "Queen Mary"

January 4, 1952 – New York City | Washington - Churchill arrives in the United States. Flies to Washington

January 9, 1952 – New York City - Returns to New York

January 11, 1952 – Ottawa, Canada - Speech at a banquet given in his honor by the Government of Canada

January 17, 1952 – Washington D.C. - Speech to the American Congress

January 20, 1952 – New York City - Resting for a couple of days in New York

January 22, 1952 – New York City - Departs to Britain

January 28, 1952 – Southampton - Arrival in Britain

February 7, 1952 – London - Churchill broadcasts about King George VI and his final illness

September 9, 1952 – La Capponcina, Côte d’azur – France - Holidays with Clementine

September 25, 1952 – London - Back in London

October 1, 1952 – Balmoral, Scotland - Churchill is guest of the Queen at Balmoral

October 2, 1952 – London - Back in London

October 11, 1952 – Scarborough - Addresses the Conservative Party Conference

December 30, 1952 – Southampton - Churchill boards the "Queen Mary" to the United States

January 4, 1953 – New York City - Churchill arrives in the United States. Visits his mother's house

January 7, 1953 – New York City - Meeting with Eisenhower

January 8, 1953 – Washington D.C. - Meeting with Truman

January 9, 1953 – Kingston, Jamaica - Churchill flies to Jamaica

January 29, 1953 – London - Churchill returns to London by air

April 17, 1953 – Glasgow - Speech in a meeting of scottish conservatives

May 27, 1953 – Downing Street, London - Pre-Coronation dinner with Queen Elizabeth

June 2, 1953 – Westminster Abbey, London - Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II

June 26, 1953 – London - Churchill's left side is partially paralyzed after another stroke

July 4, 1953 – Chartwell - Churchill recovers to be able to walk short distances unaided

August 8, 1953 – Chequers - Presides over a meeting of foreign ministers - the appearances left by his stroke vanish

September 8, 1953 – Downing Street, London - Back in Downing Street, recovered - Cabinet discussion about the Suez Canal

September 11, 1953 – Doncaster - Churchill goes to the horse races

September 12(?), 1953 – Balmoral, Scotland - Meets the Queen and accompanies her to Crathie Kirk

September 17, 1953 – La Capponcina, Côte d’azur – France - In France for two weeks holidays

September 30, 1953 – London - Back in London

October 9, 1953 – Margate - Speech in Margate

October 16, 1953 - Churchill is awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature, "for his mastery of historical and biographical description as well as for brilliant oratory in defending exalted human values".

November 3, 1953 – London - Churchill gives such a performance at the Commons that pressures for him to retire end

December 1, 1953 – Bermuda - Churchill flies to Bermuda

December 3, 1953 – Bermuda - Meeting with Eisenhower

December 10, 1953 – London - Churchill returns to London, disappointed with the results of the Conference

February 3, 1954 – London - First debate about the growing emigration of "coloured" people to Britain

April 5, 1954 – London - Speech to the Commons about the Hydrogen Bomb - Churchill starts to look frail

June 24, 1954 – Washington D.C. - Churchill flies to Washington with Eden and Cherwell. Nixon meets them at the airport

June 29, 1954 – Washington D.C. - Churchill and Eisenhower announce their agreement that West Germany should take its place as an equal partner in the community of Western Nations where it can make its proper contribution to the defence of the free world

June 30, 1954 – Ottawa, Canada - Churchill broadcasts to the canadian people

July 1, 1954 – New York City - Churchill boards the "Queen Elizabeth" to Britain

July 6, 1954 – Southampton - Churchill arrives in Britain

July 7, 1954 – London - Churchill tells the Cabinet of his decision to manufacture a british hydrogen bomb

October 9, 1954 – Blackpool - Speech at the Conservative Party Conference

November 26, 1954 – Bristol - Speech at Bristol University

April 4, 1955 – Downing Street, London - Farewell Dinner to the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh

April 6(?), 1955 – Villa Politi, Syracuse – Italy - After tendering his resignation to the Queen, Churchill flies to Syracuse, reading a thanks letter from the Queen

April 18, 1955 – Villa Politi, Syracuse – Italy - Churchill responds to the Queen's letter

April 28, 1955 – London - Returns to London

September 15, 1955 – La Capponcina, Côte d’azur – France - Churchill and Clementine fly to the South of France

November 14, 1955 – London – Returns to London

January 7, 1956 – La Pausa, Roquebrune – France - Churchill flies to the South of France. Painting lessons and gramophone music

February 16, 1956 – London - Churchill goes to London to participate in the Death Penalty (hanging) bill

March 1, 1956 – La Pausa, Roquebrune – France - Back at La Pausa

April 11, 1956 – London - Churchill flies to London to surprise Clementine, who was arriving from Marseille

April 17, 1956 – Downing Street, London - Churchill is invited to have dinner with Prime-Minister Eden and Khrushchev

May 10, 1956 – Aachen, Germany - Ceremony for the reception of the Charlemagne Prize

May 11, 1956 – Celle, Germany - Churchill spends the next days visiting british troops

May 13, 1956 – Biggin Hill - Churchill returns to Britain

May 30, 1956 – La Pausa, Roquebrune – France - Churchill and Clementine fly to the South of France

July 30, 1956 – London - Eden sees Churchill and starts giving him details of the policy in Suez

September 17, 1956 – La Pausa, Roquebrune – France - Churchill returns to La Pausa

October 19, 1956 – La Pausa, Roquebrune – France - Churchill suffers a stroke and passes out

October 28, 1956 – London - Back in London

November 5, 1956 – London - Newspaper article - "Why I decided to support the Government on the Egyptian issue"

January 10, 1957 – Buckingham Palace, London - Churchill is asked as a matter of courtesy for his advice as to Eden's successor

January 12(?), 1957 – La Pausa, Roquebrune – France - Churchill returns to La Pausa

February 13, 1957 – London - Back in London

February 1(?), 1958 – La Pausa, Roquebrune – France - Gets Bronchial pneumonia

April 1(?), 1958 – London - Back in London

September 12, 1958 – La Capponcina, Côte d’azur - Churchill and Clementine celebrate their Golden Wedding

September 22, 1958 – La Capponcina, Côte d’azur – France - Churchill embarks on the yacht "Christina" as guest of Onassis

October 2, 1958 – Gibraltar - The "Christina" reaches Gibraltar

October 3, 1958 – London - Returns to London by plane

October 12, 1958 – La Pausa, Roquebrune – France - Returns by air to La Pausa

November 6, 1958 – Paris - De Gaulle decorates Churchill with the Croix of Libertation

January(?) 1(?), 1959 – Marrakech - Flies to Marrakech with Clementine

February(?), 1(?), 1959 – Moroccan Coast | Canary Islands - Second cruise aboard Onassis' "Christina"

March 1(?), 1959 – London - Back in London

May 5, 1959 – Washington D.C. – Letter to Clementine. Guest of Eisenhower

May 15, 1959 – London - Returns to Britain

June 1(?), 1959 – Aegean Sea | La Pausa - Churchill leaves again for another cruise on the "Christina" and La Pausa

September 29, 1959 – London - Speeks to his constituency

November 30, 1959 – Hotel de Paris, Monte Carlo – Churchill and Clementine fly to the South of France. Later departs on the "Christina" to the Western Indies

September 1(?), 1961 – London - Returns to London

October 30, 1961 – London - Attends the State Opening of Parliament

June 1(?), 1962 – Monte Carlo, France - Churchill falls and breaks his hip. Asks to "die in England". A RAF Comet takes him home

April 30, 1963 – Monte Carlo, France - Churchill returns to Monte Carlo

June 1(?), 1963 – Monte Carlo, France - Embarks on the "Christina" to Sardinia, Corfu and Athens

July 1(?), 1963 – London – Back in London

July 27, 1964 – London - Last Visit to the Commons

January 10, 1965 – London - Churchill suffers a massive stroke

January 24, 1965 – London - Sir Winston Churchill dies, aged 90 =(END)