Claude de Forbin | Timeline

Forbin, painted after his death

Claude, chevalier, then count de Forbin-Gardanne (6 August 1656 – 4 March 1733) was a French naval commander. He participated of the Franco-Dutch War and of Vice-Admiral d'Estrée's expedition to the Antilles. In 1685–1688 he was on diplomatic missions to Siam and Portugal. Later, during the Nine Years' War and The War of Spanish Succession, he saw naval successes in the Mediterranean Sea, the English Channel and a spectacular campaing in White Sea.

August 6, 1656 - Gardanne, Provence - Claude de Forbin is born

January(?) 1(?), 1668 - Marseille - 12-year old Forbin runs away from home to join, as a cadet, a galley commanded by his uncle

January(?) 1(?), 1673(?) - Marseille - Forbin steals some pieces of silver and goes to Marseille to see an older brother. He is arrested by a goldsmith whom he has turned to sell the stolen items. He is brought home

January(?) 1(?), 1674(?) - Marseille - Forbin returns to Marseille, where he joins the crew his uncle's galley

January 29, 1675 - Toulon - Departs to Messina in the Duke of Vivonne's fleet =(START)

February 11, 1675 - near Stromboli, Italy - First battle of Stromboli - French victory - Forbin serves under the Duke of Vivonne as he sends relief to the town

January 7, 1676 - Off Sicily - Abraham Duquesne arrives off Sicily with 20 ships of the line and 1500 cannons

January 8, 1676 - near Stromboli, Italy - Battle of Stromboli - Indecisive

March 29, 1676 - Messina, Sicily - Vivonne leaves port to fight the Dutch-Spanish on the side of Calabria

April 22, 1676 - near August, Italy - Battle of Augusta (Agosta), Forbin commands the "Apollon" - French Victory

April(?) 29(?), 1676 - Condé-sur-l'escaut - Forbin joins the Royal musketeers. Siege of Condé-sur-l'Escaut

May 2, 1676 - Bouchain, Northern France - The siege of Bouchain starts

May 10, 1676 - Bouchain - Bouchain is taken

July 1(?), 1676 - Aire-sur-la-Lys - The Siege of Aire-sur-la-Lys begins

July 31, 1676 - Aire-sur-la-Lys - The City surrenders to the french

January 1(?), 1677 - Toulon - Forbin is promoted to Enseigne de Vaisseau and assigned to Brest

February(?) 1(?), 1677 - Toulon - Forbin kills Chevalier de Gourdon in a duel. He escapes a death penalty by assuming the identity of his brother

March(?) 1(?), 1677 - Brest - Arrival in Brest, via Lyon, Cosnes

January 1(?), 1679 - Portuguese Coast - Participates in a campaign on the Portuguese coast

April 23(?), 1680 - Rochefort - Forbin joins the fleet commanded by Vice-Admiral Count d'Estrées, sailing to the Antilles
May 22, 1680 - Lisbon, Portugal - At Saint-Catherine, Lisbon, as d'Estrées writes a letter to the Marquis of Seignelay
May 25, 1680 - Off Cascais, Portugal - Unable to continue voyage due to contrary winds
June 24, 1680 - Martinique - D'Estrées arrives at Martinique
July 12, 1680 - Saint-Domingue, Haiti - D'Estrées arrives at Saint-Domingue
July 20, 1680 - Cartagena, Colombia - D'Estrées arrives at Cartagena
July 22, 1680 - Cartagena - D'Estrées sends 2 ships (La Tempête, Le Marin) to reconnoitre the anchorages along the coast of Porto Belo
August 8, 1680 - Santa Marta, Colombia - D'Estrées arrives at Santa Marta
August 11, 1680 - Santa Marta - D'Estrées sets sail from Santa Marta
August 24, 1680 - Petit-Goâve, Haiti - D'Estrées arrives at Petit-Goâve
September 1, 1680 - Tortuga - D'Estrées sails to Tortuga to join 2 ships he sent back to France, but one of them is unseaworthy
September 7, 1680 - Off Caicos - D'Estrées writes a letter to the Marquis of Seignelay
September 10, 1680 - Petit-Goâve, Haiti - Return to Petit-Goâve due to bad weather
October 12, 1680 - Martinique - Return to Martinique
December 26, 1680 - Martinique - D'Estrées departs to France
March 2, 1681 - Chef-du-Bois (Penhoat), Brittany - The fleet of D'Estrées returns to France
March 9, 1681 - Rochefort - Return to Rochefort
January(?) 1(?), 1682 - Toulon - Forbin is assigned to Toulon
February(?) 1(?), 1682 - Toulon - Forbin embarks with Marquis de La Porte on a fleet to bombard Algiers. Command of Duquesne
March(?) 1(?), 1682 - Off Algiers - French bombardment of the city
April(?) 1(?), 1682 - Toulon - Back in Toulon
December(?) 1(?), 1682 - Toulon - Forbin receives instructions personally from Marquis de Seignelay, minister of the Navy
January(?) 1(?), 1683 - Off Algiers - French bombardment of the city
February(?) 1(?), 1683 - Toulon - Back in Toulon
March(?) 1(?), 1683 - Toulon - Forbin receives orders to go to Rochefort and prepare a ship to take Marquis de Torcy to Portugal
April(?) 1(?), 1683 - Rochefort - Forbin arrives in Rochefort, via Blois, Poitiers
June(?) 1(?), 1683 - Lisbon, Portugal - Forbin accompanies the Marquis de Torcy sent to congratulate King Pedro II of Portugal on his accession
June(?) 2(?), 1683 - Belém, Lisbon - Torcy and Forbin visit the Monastery of Belém, the tombs of the Kings, and its gardens
June(?) 5(?), 1683 - Lisbon - Forbin starts selling Saffron in Lisbon at twice the price and using the profit to buy tobacco from Brazil
August(?) 1(?), 1683 - Rochefort - Forbin returns to France
December(?) 1(?), 1683 - Aix-en-Provence - Forbin is involved in an amorous adventure with a chambermaid he disguised as a cadet and established at Aix-en-Provence
January(?) 1(?), 1684 - Rochefort - Forbin departs to Provence
January(?) 12(?), 1684 - Limoges - On his way to Provence
January(?) 20(?), 1684 - Clermont-Ferrand - On his way to Provence
February 1(?) 1684 - Saint-Étienne - On his way to Provence
February(?) 10(?), 1684 - Lyon - Forbin stops in Lyon, to talk with a man that owed money to his uncle
February(?) 20(?), 1684 - Orange - On his way to Provence
February(?) 25(?), 1684 - Aix-en-Provence - Arrives in Aix-en-Provence. With nothing more to do in Provence, he heads to Paris
July(?) 1(?), 1684 - Paris - Forbin arrives in Paris
August(?) 1(?), 1684 - Paris - Forbin is asked by Chevalier de Chaumont to join his embassy to Siam
January(?) 1(?), 1685 - Paris - Forbin is asked to depart to Brest to prepare two ships for the Embassy to Siam
January(?) 15(?), 1685 - Brest - Arrival in Brest
February 27(?), 1685 - Brest - Chaumont e l'abbé de Choisy arrive in Brest
March 3, 1685 - Brest - Forbin departs to Siam with a french Embassy (Chaumont-Choisy), aboard the "Oiseau"
June 3(?), 1685 - Cape of Good Hope - After 3 months sailing, the Oiseau and the Maligne frigate reach the Cape of Good Hope
June 5(?), 1685 - Cape Town, South Africa(?) - The french priests go ashore to pay respects to the Dutch Governor, in the new-built Dutch Fort. Forbin is delighted by the dutch hability in gardening and describes a small french colony inside the Dutch colonial enterprise where they had vineyards
June 13(?), 1685 - Cape Town, South Africa(?) - Eight days upon arrival, Forbin departs to the Straight of Sunda
August 15, 1685 - Bantam, Java - Forbin arrives at Bantam. First night spent at anchor
August 18, 1685 - Bantam - Forbin departs to Batavia
August 20, 1685 - Batavia - Forbin arrives in Batavia
August 28, 1685 - Batavia - After 8 days being very well treated by the dutch officers, Forbin departs to Siam
September 23, 1685 - Bangkok, Siam - Forbin and the french Embassy arrive in Siam
October 18, 1685 - Ayutthaya - Solemn Audience of the First French Embassy
December 12, 1685 - Lopburi - Farewell Audience of the First French Embassy
December 22, 1685 - Lopburi - The French Embassy departs for France, leaving Forbin and the engineer de La Mare to serve King Narai.
July 2, 1686 - Bangkok, Siam - Fathers de Fontaney, Bouvet, Gerbillon and Visdelou leave Ayutthaya for Macao and meet de Forbin at Bangkok
July 15, 1686 - Bangkok - Plot of the Makassars in Ayutthaya discovered. Phaulcon orders Forbin to stop a Makassarese ship at Bangkok, resulting in a slaughter of the Siamese troops.
August 1(?), 1686 - Bangkok(?) - Forbin ordered by Phaulkon to arrest Captain Lake on his ship the "Prudent Mary"
September 12, 1686 - Bangkok - Fathers de Fontaney, Bouvet, Gerbillon and Visdelou meet Forbin after being shipwrecked off Cambodia.
September 14, 1686 - Ayutthaya - Second attack on the Macassar camp in Ayutthaya
December 15(?), 1686 - Bangkok - Forbin departs to Pondichéry aboard the French East Indian Company ship "Saint-Louis"
January 1(?), 1687 - Malacca Strait - On his way to Pondichéry
January 10(?), 1687 - Nicobar Islands, India - On his way to Pondichéry
January 30(?), 1687 - Pondichéry, India - Forbin arrives at Pondichéry, via Malacca Strait
May(?) 1(?), 1687 - Pondichéry - Forbin departs for the Bay of Bengal
December 30, 1687 - Mergui - After wandering around the Bay of Bengal his ship put into Mergui, in time to meet, a little upstream of Tenasserim, the co-ambassador Ceberet returning overland from his mission
February 2, 1688 - Pondichéry, India - Forbin and Céberet depart to France aboard the "Oiseau"
March(?) 1(?), 1688 - Cape of Good Hope - On his way back to France
April(?) 1(?), 1688 - St.Helena island - On his way back to France
May(?) 1(?), 1688 - Ascencion Island - Forbin and crew bring many turtles aboard
July 18, 1688 - Brest - Forbin returns to France with the French India Company
August(?) 5(?), 1688 - Paris - Forbin meets the Minister of the Navy, Seignelay, who presents him to King Louis XIV
April(?) 1(?), 1689 - Dunkirk - Seigneley assigns Forbin to Dunkirk, commanding a 16-gun frigate with orders to cruise in the English Channel
April(?) 15(?), 1689 - Off Calais(?) - Forbin is informed by the Governor of Calais that the Spanish declared war to France
April(?) 20(?), 1689 - Dunkirk - Forbin returns to Dunkirk with 4 small merchant prizes
May(?) 1(?), 1689 - Dunkirk - Jean Bart and Forbin depart to Brest, transporting soldiers
May(?) 10(?), 1689 - Dunkirk - After combat with a dutch privateer, Jean Bart and Forbin learn that they are at war with England
May(?) 15(?), 1689 - S. Isle of Man - Jean Bart and Forbin abandon the escort mission and battle with two 50-gun english warships. Arrested
May(?) 20(?), 1689 - Plymouth - Jean Bart and Forbin arrive to Plymouth in chains
May(?) 31(?), 1689 - Plymouth - Jean Bart and Forbin escape after 11 days in captivity, in a small flemish ship
June(?) 2(?), 1689 - Harqui, close to Saint-Malo - Jean Bart and Forbin reach Brittany
June(?) 4(?), 1689 - Saint-Malo - On his way to Paris
June(?) 8(?), 1689 - Rouen - On his way to Paris
June(?) 15(?), 1689 - Paris - Forbin arrives in Paris
June 17(?), 1689 - Versailles - Made Capitaine de Vaisseau by King Louis XIV. Forbin shares the story of his captivity
July(?) 15(?), 1689 - Brest - Newly-promoted Forbin arrives in Brest to serve with his brother
July(?) 20(?), 1689 - North of Brest - Forbin captures a small british merchant
July(?) 30(?), 1689 - Waterford, Ireland - After capturing another merchant, Forbin is forced to sail to Ireland in a storm
August(?) 12(?), 1689 - Brest - Forbin returns to Brest with his prize
January(?) 1(?), 1690 - Rochefort - Assigned to Rochefort to command the "Le Fidèle"
June(?) 21(?), 1690 - Brest - Forbin arrives in Brest to join Tourville's fleet
June 23, 1690 - Brest - Tourville departs to the English Channel with 75 ships
June 30, 1690 - Off the Lizard - The French Fleet reaches the Lizard

Battle of Beachy Head/Bevéziers, 1690

July 10, 1690 - off Beachy Head, English Channel - Battle of Beachy Head - French Victory
July 12(?), 1690 - Off Le Havre - The French Fleet anchors off Le Havre to refit and land their sick
July 26, 1690 - Teignmouth, Devon - The french fleet anchors off Torbay, land 1,000 men and burn Teignmouth
August(?) 10(?), 1690 - Dunkirk - The Fleet returns to Dunkirk and scatters
January(?) 1(?), 1691 - Dunkirk - Preparing the "la Perle", a 32-gun ship to run through the english blockade, for an expedition to the North Sea
February(?) 1(?), 1691 - Dunkirk - Forbin sails from Dunkirk during the night and immediatly takes a 44-gun english warship and the three merchants it was escorting
February(?) 3(?), 1691 - North Sea - Forbin takes a dutch warship and a fleet of harring fishing boats it was escorting
February(?) 15(?), 1691 - Coast of Scotland - Bart and Forbin burn a few scottish villages, including one with a castle
April(?) 1(?), 1691 - Dunkirk - Bart and Forbin return to Dunkirk
April(?) 10(?), 1691 - Paris - Forbin arrives in Paris to explain himself to the new Minister of the Navy, Pontchartrain
May 10, 1691 - Rochefort - Forbin is signatary of a document written in Rochefort on this day
March(?) 1(?), 1692 - Brest - Forbin is assigned to Brest, and to command the "La Perle" once again
March(?) 15(?), 1692 - St-Malo - Forbin and the Sieur d'Ivry, go to St-Malo to escort merchant ships destined to transport troops in La Hogue for the service of King James, who was going to cross to England
May(?) 1(?), 1692 - Off Le Havre - As he heads to Brest, escaping from an english fleet of 45 ships. Forbin is informed of the location of a big french fleet commanded by Tourville, and decides to join them

Battle of Barfleur, 1692

May 29, 1692 - near Cherbourg Peninsula, France - Battle of Barfleur - tactically indecisive - Anglo-Dutch strategic victory
June 5(?), 1692 - English Channel - Forbin takes two 52-gun dutch warships and 3 fluyts carrying salt from Portugal
June 12(?), 1692 - Brest - Forbin arrives in Brest with his captured dutch ships
October(?) 1(?), 1692 - Aix-en-Provence(?) - Forbin travels to Provence to see his family
May(?) 1(?), 1693 - Brest - Forbin returns from Provence to prepare the "La Perle" for the next season
June 20(?), 1693 - Brest - Tourville departs to Gibraltar with 75 ships
June 27, 1693 - near Lagos, Portugal - Battle of Lagos - French victory - 40 merchantmen captured
July(?) 2(?), 1693 - Strait of Gibraltar - Tourville and Forbin cross the Strait to the Mediterranean and meet D'Estrées
July(?) 12(?), 1693 - Toulon - Tourville and Forbin reach Toulon with a smaller fleet
March(?) 1(?), 1694 - Bayonne - Forbin is assigned to Bayonne
January(?) 1(?), 1695 - Toulon - Forbin returns to Toulon. His brother dies
February(?) 20(?), 1695 - Toulon - Forbin departs to Malta, taking twelve knights to the island
March(?) 1(?), 1695 - Malta - Forbin reaches Malta and the knights disembark
April(?) 1(?), 1695 - Island of Cephalonia, Greece - Forbin reaches the Island of Cephalonia, after a battle with dutch warships
May(?) 1(?), 1695 - Malta - Forbin escorts 20 merchant ships to Malta
July(?) 1(?), 1695 - Toulon - Returns to Toulon. Orders come to prepare to return to Cephalonia
January(?) 1(?), 1696 - Off Majorca - Forbin takes an english ship and sends it to Toulon
January(?) 20(?), 1696 - Off Algier - Forbin arrives off Algier and receives starving christian slaves aboard
February(?) 1(?), 1696 - Between Majorca and Sardinia - Forbin takes a barbary corsair
February(?) 15(?), 1696 - Malta - Short stay in Malta before sailing to Cephalonia
March(?) 1(?), 1696 - Island of Cephalonia, Greece - Forbin arrives in Cephalonia
March(?) 20(?), 1696 - Off Roccella, Naples - Forbin takes two moroccan corsairs
April(?) 1(?), 1696 - Malta - Back in Malta
May(?) 1(?), 1696 - Off Bizerte - Cruising off Bizerte
June(?) 1(?), 1696 - Marseille - Forbin arrives in Marseille bringing captured ships and goods for business
January(?) 1(?), 1697 - Marseille - Forbin receives the command of the "l'Heureux Retour"
January(?) 20(?), 1697 - Coast of Catalonia - Cruising off Catalonia
February(?) 1(?), 1697 - Toulon - Back to Toulon
February(?) 20(?), 1697 - Off Barcelona - Forbin delivers orders from the Court, in consequence of the General Peace
March(?) 1(?), 1697 - Cagliari, Sardinia - Forbin passes through Sardinia to deliver the King's Peace
June 15, 1697 - Off Barcelona - The siege of Barcelona begins
August 8, 1697 - Off Barcelona - The spanish capitulate at Barcelona and the siege is lifted
September(?) 1(?), 1697 - Toulon - Back in Toulon to rest
May(?) 25(?), 1698 - Toulon - Forbin departs to Algier
June(?) 1(?), 1698 - Algier - Forbin arrives in Algier as "Ambassador Extraordinaire"
June(?) 2(?), 1698 - Algier - Forbin departs to Toulon with Dussaut aboard
June(?) 8(?), 1698 - Toulon - Back in Toulon
January(?) 1(?), 1699 - Versailles - Chevalier de Forbin is promoted by King Louis XIV and invited to his Bedroom
January(?) 1(?), 1700 - Lyon - Transporting Clerics to Rome, after the death of the Pope
January(?) 10(?), 1700 - Avignon - Transporting Clerics to Rome, after the death of the Pope
January(?) 15(?), 1700 - Marseille - Transporting Clerics to Rome, after the death of the Pope. Takes Cardinals Janson and Coaslin aboard
January(?) 20(?), 1700 - Toulon - Forbin joins a fleet commanded by Marquis de Villars against the algerian corsairs
January(?) 30(?), 1700 - Off Malaga - Forbin finds 5 algerian corsair ships and commands their obediance
February(?) 12(?), 1700 - Cádiz, Spain - The fleet reaches Cádiz. Orders to cruise between Gibraltar and Málaga
September(?) 1(?), 1700 - Toulon - Back in Toulon. End of Season and period of inactivity
January(?) 1(?), 1701 - Toulon - Forbin departs to Brindisi, in the Kingdom of Naples
January(?) 23(?), 1701 - Cagliari, Sardinia - Forbin reaches Cagliari after 3 weeks sailing against contrary winds
January(?) 25(?), 1701 - Cape Passaro - Forbin finds contrary winds again
February(?) 1(?), 1701 - Brindisi - Forbin arrives at Brindisi and receives the Spanish Governor aboard. Two frigates join his command
March(?) 1(?), 1701 - Adriatic Sea - Venice? Ancona? Trieste?
April(?) 1(?), 1701 - Venice - Forbin blockades Venice
April(?) 15(?), 1701 - Fiume - Forbin ramsons Fiume for 100,000 "scudi"
May(?) 1(?), 1701 - Ancona - Business in Ancona
June(?) 1(?), 1701 - Brindisi - Back in Brindisi
August(?) 1(?), 1701 - Trieste - Forbin blockades and bombs Trieste
September(?) 1(?), 1701 - Toulon(?) - Returns to Toulon(?)
January(?) 1(?), 1703 - Versailles - He goes to Versailles where he hoped for a promotion for his services. Instead he clashes with the minister of the navy; he is accused of embezzlement and of having held back the money of the ransoms, especially the "100,000" of Fiume
April(?) 1(?), 1703 - Toulon - Cagliari - Malta - Toulon - Forbin successfully protects the french trade fleets in the Mediterranean, going to Malta several times and bringing several knights of the Gerosolomian order to France, until 1705
December(?) 1(?), 1705 - Dunkirk - Receives the command of a squadron of 8 ships from Dunkirk. organizes and starts hunting for opponents with about ten ships. At the height of Ostend intercepts an English convoy of 40 ships from the Dutch ports with the escort escort of a war vessel and 2 frigates. Attack and catch 10 ships; sends the prey to Dunkirk and continues in the running war. At the island of Texel he comes across a Dutch convoy protected by 4 ships; prepares for the assault when he sees a team of 15 Dutch warships on the horizon. It gives itself to escape and flows on the English coasts. It prevents the direct fleet in Russia to leave the ports; fires about fifty herring fishermen's boats and heads for a Norwegian port to stock up on supplies and ammunition. To escape the surveillance of an English team of 12 vessels returns to France following the coasts of Scotland and Ireland. It takes possession of a 56-gun Dutch vessel carrying 60000 silver shields and making more prey; near Brest captures 2 ships with their loads
June 1(?), 1706 - Off Ostende, Belgium - Forbin attacks an english convoy of 40 ships, capturing 10 of them and sending them to Dunkirk
July 12, 1706 - Norwegian coast(?) - Forbin seizes 2 dutch ships
July 28, 1706 - Norwegian coast(?) - Forbin engages a strong escorted dutch convoy, capturing 3 ships and sinking another
September(?) 1(?), 1706 - Brest - Returns to Brest
May 12, 1707 - Off Brighton - Forbin captures a British convoy of 18 ships en route for Portugal
July 16, 1707 - Kildin Island, White Sea - When the main body of the british trade was safe in the Dvina River discharging cargoes, Forbin takes a round dozen of the stragglers in or near the port of Kildin
August 1, 1707 - Vardø, Norway (close to the russian border) - Forbin catches 17 dutch ships in danish territory as the rest of the dutch fleet reached Arkhangelsk
August(?) 28(?), 1707 - Off Faroe Islands - Sailing back to France
September 10(?), 1707 - West of Ireland - Forbin avoids the enemy by sailing to Brest by the west of Ireland, instead of to Dunkirk through the North Sea
September 23, 1707 - Brest - Forbin returns to Brest with 34 captured ships
September 27, 1707 - Brest - Made Chef d'Escadre
October 19, 1707 - Brest - Forbin and Duguay-Trouin set sail from Brest
October 20, 1707 - (While in the West English Channel) - An english merchant fleet of 80 to 130 ships departs from Plymouth to Portugal, with supplies for the armies in Spain. Five ships-of-the-line commanded by commodore Edwards escort the fleet

Battle of the Lizard, 1707

October 21, 1707 - Lizard Point, Cornwall - Battle at the Lizard - 1 80g warship destroyed + 3 captured. At least 15 merchants captured (1000+ dead)
October 28, 1707 - Brest - Forbin and Duguay-Trouin return to Brest with their prizes
February 28, 1708 - Dunkirk - 6,000 troops, from the French regiments of Bernay, Auxerre, Agen, Luxembourg, Beauferme, and Boulogne plus elements of the Irish Brigade are ready to embark
March 9, 1708 - Dunkirk - Prince James Francis Edward Stuart arrives
March 17, 1708 - Dunkirk - Forbin's fleet of 30 privateers and 5 warships departs to Scotland with Prince James Francis Edward Stuart aboard
March 23, 1708 - near Fife Ness, Scotland - The french anchor near Fife Ness. Spends the next day searching for a landing place, allowing Byng to catch up with them
March 27(?), 1708 - Off Moray Firth - Forbin's light privateers head north and spend two days attempting to enter the Moray Firth before giving up
April 7, 1708 - Dunkirk - After a stormy passage, Forbin and James return to Dunkirk with only 9 ships
January 1(?), 1709 - Dunkirk - Forbin is sent to Dunkirk to defend the port against an expected british attack (that never came). He starts suffering from his old wounds. He writes to the Minister for permission to go to Toulon to recover from his wounds and infirmities in his "native air"
March(?) 1(?), 1709 - Provence - Forbin is denied leave to Toulon but gets a 3-months leave in Provence
June(?) 1(?), 1709 - Versailles(?) - Forbin goes to the french Court where he stays for some time
January(?) 1(?), 1710 - Dunkirk - The year after I had to go back to Dunkirk again to fulfill the functions of commander in the port 
March(?) 1(?), 1710 - Provence - The decline of age increase his infirmities enormously and many of his wounds reopen. He looks for the surgeons in Provence and writes to the Minister again
May(?) 1(?), 1710 - Toulon - Forbin writes to Cardinal Janson and receives orders to live in Toulon to recover from his wounds. He get a pension of 4,000 "livres" and begins planning to retire
January 1(?), 1712 - Chateau Forbin, Saint-Marcel "Neighborhood of Marseille" - After two years, enjoying an extra 3,000 "livres", Forbin retires from the Navy and withraws to a country house in the neighborhood of Marseille
January(?) 1(?), 1722 - Chateau Forbin - Draws his sword for the last time for a fight with neighbors
January(?) 1(?), 1730 - Chateau Forbin - Publishes his memoirs (written by his secretary)
March 2, 1733 - Chateau Forbin, Saint-Marcel "Neighborhood of Marseille" - Claude de Forbin dies, aged 76 =(END)

Bibliography
FORBIN, Claude de - Memoirs of the Count de Forbin, commodore in the navy of France

Joseph Stalin | Timeline

Joseph Stalin (born Ioseb Dzhughashvili; 18 December 1878 – 5 March 1953) was a Soviet revolutionary and politician of Georgian ethnicity. He ruled the Soviet Union from the mid-1920s until his death in 1953, holding the titles of General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1922 to 1952 and the nation's Premier from 1941 to 1953. Initially presiding over an oligarchic one-party system that governed by plurality, he became the de facto dictator of the Soviet Union by the 1930s. Ideologically committed to the Leninist interpretation of Marxism, Stalin helped to formalise these ideas as Marxism–Leninism, while his own policies became known as Stalinism. (Intro from Wikipedia)

December 18, 1878 - Gori, Georgia - Ioseb Dzhughashvili is born

December 29, 1878 - Gori - Ioseb is baptised

January(?) 1(?), 1884 - Gori - Ioseb contracts smallpox, which leaves him with facial pock scars for the rest of his life

January(?) 1(?), 1888 - Gori - 10-year old Ioseb Dzhughashvili enrolls at the Gori Church School

February 1(?), 1892 - Gori - Ioseb's school teachers take him and the other pupils to witness the public hanging of several peasant bandits; Ioseb and his friends sympathise with the condemned. The event leaves a deep and lasting impression on him
July 1(?), 1893 - Gori - Dzhughashvili passes his exams and is recommended to the Tiflis Seminary
August 1(?), 1894 - Tiflis, Georgia - Dzhughashvili officially enrolls at the Tiflis Seminary
April 1(?), 1899 - Tiflis - Dzhughashvili leaves the Seminary at the end of the term and never returns
October 1(?), 1899 - Tiflis - Dzhughashvili begins working as a meteorologist at the Tiflis Meteorological Observatory
January(?) 1(?), 1900 - Metekhi Fortress - Dzhughashvili is arrested - The official explanation given was that Beso had not paid his taxes and that Dzhughashvili was responsible for ensuring that they were paid, although it may be that this was a "cryptic warning" from the police, who were aware of his Marxist revolutionary activities. As soon as Dzhughashvili's mother Ekaterina learned of the arrest, she came to Tiflis, while some of Dzhughashvili's wealthier friends helped to pay the taxes and get him out of prison
May 1, 1900 - Tiflis, Georgia - Dzhughashvili is involved in organising a secret nocturnal mass meeting for May Day 1900, in which around 500 workers meet in the hills outside the city. There, Dzhughashvili gives his first major public speech, in which he calls for strike action, something that the Mesame Dasi opposed. Following his prompting, the workers at the railway depos and Adelkhanov's show factory go on strike =(START)
March 22, 1901 - Tiflis - On the night of 21–22 March 1901, the Okhrana arrests a number of Marxist leaders in the city. Dzhughashvili himself escapes arrest; he was traveling toward the observatory aboard a tram when he recognised plain-clothes police around the building. He decides to remain on the tram and get off at a later stop. He doesn't return to the observatory, and henceforth lives off of donations given by political sympathisers and friends
May 1, 1901 - Tiflis - Dzhughashvili next helps plan a large May Day demonstration for 1901, in which 3000 workers and leftists march from Soldiers Bazaar to Yerevan Square. Demonstrators clash with Cossack troops, resulting in 14 protesters being seriously wounded and 50 arrested
November 1(?), 1901 - Tiflis - Dzhughashvili attends a meeting of the Tiflis Committee of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party, where he is elected one of the eight Committee members
November 20(?), 1901 - Batumi, Georgia - Dzhughashvili is sent to the port city of Batumi. There, he identifies and kills an "Okhrana" agent that was trying to get access to the Batumi Marxist circles

Stalin, 1902

January 4, 1902 - Batumi - A Rothschild warehouse where Dzhughashvili worked is set alight. The company's workers help to put out the blaze, and insist that they be paid a bonus for doing so. When the company refuses, Dzhughashvili calls a strike. He encourages revolutionary fervour among workers through a number of leaflets that he had printed in both Georgian and Armenian
February 17, 1902 - Batumi - The Rothschild company agrees to the strikers' demands, which included a 30% pay rise.
February 23, 1902 - Batumi - The Rothschild company dismisses 389 workers whom they regarded as troublemakers. In response to this latter act, Dzhughashvili calls for another strike. Many of the strike leaders are arrested by police. Dzhughashvili helps to organise a public demonstration outside the prison which is joined by much of the town. The demonstrators storm the prison in an attempt to free the imprisoned strike leaders, but are fired upon by Cossack troops. 13 protesters are killed and 54 wounded. Dzhughashvili escapes with a wounded man. This event, known as the Batumi Massacre, gained national attention
March 12, 1902 - Batumi - Dzhughashvili helps organising a further demonstration for 12 March, the day on which the dead were buried. Around 7000 people take part in the march, which is heavily policed
April 5, 1902 - Batumi - Dzhughashvili is arrested by the "Okhrana"
April 1(?), 1903 - Batumi - Dzhughashvili leads a prison protest against the visit of the Exarch of the Georgian Church - He is put on solitary confinement
July 9, 1903 - Batumi - The Justice Minister recommends that Dzhughashvili be sentenced to three years of exile in Eastern Siberia
August 4, 1903 - Batumi - Demonstration inside the prison. "Lado", a marxist-leninist demonstrator is killed by the police
August 19, 1903 - Kutaisi, Georgia - Dzhughashvili is transferred from the Batum to the Kutaisi prison
September 25(?), 1903 - Kutaisi - Dzhughashvili boards a prison steamship to Novaya Uda, in Siberia
October 1(?), 1903 - Novaya Uda, Siberia - Dzhughashvili arrives to the settlement of Novaya Uda, via Novorossiysk, Rostov and Irkutsk
October 26(?), 1903 - Novaya Uda, Siberia - Dzhughashvili departs from Novaya Uda carrying the identification document of an Okhrana agent
November 15(?), 1903 - Batumi, Georgia - Dzhughashvili returns to Batumi
December 30(?), 1903 - Tiflis, Georgia - Dzhughashvili arrives at Tiflis and meets Lev Kamenev for the first time
January 5, 1904 - Tiflis - Kamenev is arrested by the Okhrana. Dzhughashvili escapes
May 1, 1904 - Gori, Georgia - Dzhughashvili leaves to Gori after learning about a new warrant issued against him
June 21, 1904 - Gori - Dzhughashvili marries Ketevan (Ekaterina) "Kato" Svanidze
July 1(?), 1904 - Kutaisi, Georgia - Mikha Tskhakaya sends Dzhughashvili to Kutaisi to establish a Committee for the province of Imeretia and Mingrelia in July
December 31, 1904 - Kutaisi - Dzhughashvili leads a gang of workers who disrupt a party held by a bourgeois liberal group
February 1(?), 1905 - Baku, Azerbaijan - Dzhughashvili is in Baku when a spate of ethnic violence brakes out between Armenians and Azeris; at least 2000 are killed. Dzhughashvili forms a Bolshevik Battle Squad which he orders to try and keep the warring ethnic factions apart, also using the unrest to steal printing equipment.
March(?) 1(?), 1905 - Tiflis, Georgia - Proceeded to Tiflis, where he organises a demonstration of ethnic reconciliation. Amid the growing violence, Dzhughashvili forms his own armed Red Battle Squads, with the Mensheviks doing the same. These armed revolutionary groups disarm local police and troops, and gain further weaponry by raiding government arsenals. They raise funds through a protection racket on large local businesses and mines. Dzhughashvili's militia launch attacks on the government's Cossack troops and Black Hundreds
September 1(?), 1905 - Tiflis - After Cossacks open fire on a student meeting, killing sixty of those assembled, Dzhughashvili retaliates by launching nine simultaneous attacks on the Cossacks
October 1(?), 1905 - Tiflis - Dzhughashvili's militia agrees to co-operate many of its attacks with the local Menshevik militia
November 26, 1905 - Tiflis - The Georgian Bolsheviks elect Dzhughashvili and two others as their delegates to a Bolshevik conference due to be held in St. Petersburg
December 1(?), 1905 - Tiflis - Dzhughashvili sets off by train using the alias of "Ivanovitch"
December 9(?), 1905 - St.Petersburg - Dzhughashvili arrives at St.Petersburg and meets with Lenin's wife Nadezhda Krupskaya who informs them that the venue had been moved to Tammerfors in the Grand Duchy of Finland
December 12, 1905 - Tammerfors (Tampere, Finland) - Dzhughashvili meets Lenin for the first time in a meeting of bolshevik leaders
December 17, 1905 - Tammerfors - End of the meeting with Lenin - Stalin and the other bolshevik leaders return to Russia
April 1(?), 1906 - Georgia - Leaves Georgia to attend the RSDLP 4th Congress in Stockholm. He travels via St Petersburg and the Finnish port of Hangö. The ship on which Stalin travelled, the "Oihonna", is shipwrecked; Dzhughashvili and the other passengers have to wait to be rescued
April 23, 1906 - Stockholm, Sweden - The Fourth (Unity) Congress of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party begins
May 8, 1906 - Stockholm - The Fourth (Unity) Congress of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party ends
June 1(?), 1906 - Tiflis, Georgia - Dzhughashvili returns to Tiflis, via Berlin
September 1(?), 1906 - Tiflis - Dzhughashvili attends a RSDLP conference in Tiflis
September 20, 1906 - Cape Kodori - Dzhughashvili's gang board the Tsarevich (Prince) Giorgi steamship as it passes Cape Kodori and steal the money aboard.
March 31, 1907 - Baji, Georgia - Son Yakov is born. Dzhughashvili is present
May 13, 1907 - London - The 5th Congress of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party begins
June 1, 1907 - London - The 5th Congress of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party Ends
June 17, 1907 - Baku, Azerbaijan - Stalin returns to Kato and Yakov in Baku. He gives a speech on the same day, and begins editing the two bolshevik newspapers:  "Bakinsky Proletary" and "Gudok"
June 26, 1907 - Tiflis, Georgia - Dzhughashvili organizes the robbing of a large delivery of money to the Imperial Bank. His gang ambushes the armed convoy in Yerevan Square with gunfire and homemade bombs. Around 40 people are killed, but all of Dzhughashvili's gang manage to escape alive. Around 250,000 roubles are stolen.
July(?) 1(?), 1907 - Baku, Azerbaijan - Mensheviks confront him about the robbery in Tiflis but he denies any involvement. These Mensheviks then vote to expel him from the RSDLP, but Dzhughashvili takes no notice of them.
August 18, 1907 - Stuttgart, Germany - The International Socialist Congress begins
August 24, 1907 - Stuttgart - The International Socialist Congress ends
September 1(?), 1907 - Baku, Azerbaijan - Returns to Baku
December 5, 1907 - Tiflis, Georgia - "Kato" dies of typhus in his arms
December 8, 1907 - Kukia, Georgia - Kato's funeral - Dzhughashvili throws himself onto the coffin in grief, but then has to escape the churchyard when Okhrana agents approach
December 31, 1907 - Baku, Azerbaijan - New Year's Eve party dinner with Spandarian. Dzhughashvili emerges from his mourning
January 15(?), 1908 - Tiflis, Georgia - Dzhughashvili returns to Tiflis
February 11, 1908 - Moscow - Stalin departs to Geneva with 10,000 rubles from the Tiflis Robbery
February(?) 20(?), 1908 - Geneva, Switzerland - Discreet meeting with Lenin
March 25, 1908 - Bailov Prison, Baku - Dzhughashvili is arrested in a police raid and interred in Bailov Prison
September 29, 1908 - Baku - Leaves Baku in a group of convicts
October 30(?), 1908 - Solvychegodsk, Vologda - Dzhughashvili arrives at Solvychegodsk
February 1(?), 1909 - Solvychegodsk - Dzhughashvili is sentenced to 2 years exile in the village of Solvychegodsk, Vologda Province
June 1(?), 1909 - Kotlas (Arkhangelsk Province) - Dzhughashvili escapes prison and makes it to Kotlas disguised as a woman. From there to St.Petersburg
July 1(?), 1909 - Baku, Azerbaijan - Back in Baku. There he begins to express the need for the Bolsheviks to help boost their ailing fortunes by re-uniting with the Mensheviks. He gets increasingly frustrated with Lenin's factionalist attitudes
October 1(?), 1909 - Baku(?) - Dzhughashvili is arrested alongside several fellow Bolsheviks, but bribes the police officers into letting them escape
March 23, 1910 - Baku(?) - He is arrested again, this time with Petrovskaya. He is sentenced into internal exile and sent back to Solvychegodsk, being banned from returning to the southern Caucuses for five years
September 23, 1910 - Solvychegodsk, Vologda - He gains permission to marry Petrovskaya in the prison church, but he is deported to Solvychegodsk on the same day that he receives permission to do so. He would never see her again
February 1(?), 1911 - Solvychegodsk - Dzhughashvili registers Serafima Khoroshenina as his cohabiting parter. However she is soon exiled to Nikolsk
June 1(?), 1911 - Solvychegodsk - He is allowed to leave Solvychegodsk and spends the next 3 months in Vologda 
September 9, 1911 - Vologda(?) - Arrested again by the Okhrana
February 29, 1912 - St.Petersburg - Dzhughashvili takes the train to St Petersburg via Moscow. There, his assigned task is to convert the Bolshevik weekly newspaper, Zvezda ("Star") into a daily, Pravda ("Truth")

"Pravda", May 5th, 1912

May 5, 1912 - St.Petersburg - Newspaper "Pravda" is launched
May 15(?), 1912 - Tiflis, Georgia - Back in Tiflis
July(?) 1(?), 1912 - St.Petersburg - Arrested again and sentenced to 3 years exile in Siberia
July 12, 1912 - Tomsk | Narym - Dzhughashvili arrives in Tomsk, from which he takes a steamship on the Ob River to Kolpashevo, from which he travels to Narym, where he was required to remain
September 1(?), 1912 - Tomsk | St.Petersburg - Escapes via canoe and makes it to Tomsk. Then to St.Petersburg
October(?) 1(?), 1912 - Tiflis, Georgia - Returns to Tiflis
October(?) 15(?), 1912 - St.Petersburg - Back in St.Petersburg
November(?) 1(?), 1912 - Kraków, Poland - Meeting with Lenin
December 1(?), 1912 - Kraków - Second meeting with Lenin
January 1(?), 1913 - Vienna, Austria - Dzhughashvili travels to Vienna, where he stays with the wealthy Bolshevik sympathiser Alexander Troyanovsky. There, he writes "Marxism and the National question". He signs for the first time as ..... Stalin.
February 1(?), 1913 - St.Petersburg - Back in St.Petersburg. Later he is arrested and sentenced to 4 years exile in Turukhansk, Siberia
August 1(?), 1913 - Monastyrskoe - Arrives to the village of Monastyrskoe, and 4 weeks later is moved to Kostino
March 1(?), 1914 - Kureika, Arctic Circle - Stalin is moved to Kureika to avoid an escape attempt

Stalin at Selivanikha, 1915

August(?) 30(?), 1914 - Selivanikha - Stalin is moved to Selivanikha, close to the indigenous Tunguses and Ostyak communities
August 1(?), 1916 - Monastyrskoe - Stalin is conscripted and leaves to Monastyrskoe
December 1(?), 1916 - Monastyrskoe - Stalin departs to Krasnoyarsk
February 1(?), 1917 - Krasnoyarsk - Stalin arrives in Krasnoyarsk. There, a medical examiner rules him unfit for military service due to his crippled arm. This was convenient for Stalin as it meant that he would not be sent to fight on the Eastern Front, but also would remain a source of embarrassment for him
February(?) 10(?), 1917 - Achinsk - Stalin is required to serve four more months on his exile, and he successfully requests that he be allowed to serve it in nearby Achinsk. There, he stays in the apartment of fellow Bolshevik Vera Shveitzer
March 25, 1917 - Petrograd - Stalin arrives to the recently renamed Petrograd with Kamenev
March 28, 1917 - Petrograd - Together with Lev Kamenev and Matvei Muranov, Stalin ousts Vyacheslav Molotov and Alexander Shlyapnikov as editors of "Pravda", while Lenin and much of the Bolshevik leadership were still in exile
April 16, 1917 - Petrograd - Lenin returns to Russia. Stalin welcomes him at Petrograd's Finland Station
April 29, 1917 - Petrograd - Stalin comes third in the Bolshevik elections for the party's Central Committee
June 24, 1917 - Petrograd - Stalin threatens to resign when Lenin turns against the idea of an armed demonstration when the Soviet refused to support it
July 18, 1917 - Petrograd - Loyalist troops raid "Pravda" and surround the Bolshevik headquarters. Stalin helps Lenin evade capture minutes before and, to avoid a bloodbath, orders the besieged Bolsheviks in the Peter and Paul Fortress to surrender
October 10, 1917 - Petrograd - Lenin returns to Petrograd and at a meeting, secures a majority in favour of a coup
October 23, 1917 - Petrograd - The Central Committee votes 10-2 in favor of an insurrection; Kamenev and Zinoviev vote in opposition
October 24, 1917 - Petrograd - The police raids the Bolshevik newspaper offices, smashing machinery and presses; Stalin manages to salvage some of this equipment in order to continue his activities
October 25, 1917 - Petrograd - In the early hours of 25 October, Stalin joins Lenin in a Central Committee meeting in the Smolny Institute, from where the Bolshevik coup—the October Revolution—was being directed. Armed Bolshevik militia had seized Petrograd's electric power station, main post office, state bank, telephone exchange, and several bridges. A Bolshevik-controlled ship, the "Aurora", sails up to the Winter Palace, and opens fire, with the assembled delegates of the Provisional Government surrendering and being arrested by the Bolsheviks
November 15, 1917 - Petrograd - The Declaration of the Rights of the Peoples of Russia is promulgated by the Bolshevik government and signed by Lenin and Stalin
November 25(?), 1917 - Helsinki, Finland - Stalin travels to Helsinki to talk with the Finnish Social-Democrats, granting Finland's request for independence in December
December 15, 1917 - (While in Petrograd)(?) - An armistice between Soviet Russia and the Central Powers is concluded
December 22, 1917 - (While in Petrograd)(?) - Peace negotiations begin in Brest-Litovsk
March 3, 1918 - (While in Petrograd)(?) - Treaty of Brest-Litovsk - End of Russia's participation in the War
May 1(?), 1918 - Tsaritsyn (Stalingrad/Volgograd) - Lenin dispatches Stalin to the city of Tsaritsyn (later known as Stalingrad, now Volgograd). Situated on the Lower Volga, it was a key supply route to the oil and grain of the North Caucasus. With a critical shortage of food in Russia, Stalin is assigned to procure any he could find according to Prodrazvyorstka policy. The city was also in danger of falling to the White Army
July 1(?), 1918 - Tsaritsyn - The Battle of Tsaritsyn begins
December 1(?), 1918 - Perm - Stalin is sent to Perm to lead an inquiry into how Alexander Kolchak's White forces had been able to decimate Red troops based there
January(?) 1(?), 1919 - ? - Stalin marries 16-year-old Nadezhda "Nadya" Alliluyeva
January 7, 1919 - Ukranian frontier - A bolshevik army under the command of Vladimir Antonov-Ovseyenko, Stalin and Volodymyr Zatonsky, invades Ukraine
February(?) 1(?), 1919 - Moscow - Arrives in Moscow (between January and March)
March 18, 1919 - Moscow - The 8th Congress of the Russian Communist Party begins in Moscow
March 23, 1919 - Moscow - The 8th Congress of the Russian Communist Party ends
May 1(?), 1919 - near Petrograd - Stalin is dispatched to the Western Front, near Petrograd. To stem mass desertions and defections of Red Army soldiers, Stalin has deserters and renegades rounded up and publicly executed as traitors
November 1(?), 1919 - ? - Awarded the Order of the Red Banner for his wartime service
February 7, 1920 - Caucasus - Appointed Head of the Worker's and Peasants' Inspectorate and transfered to the Caucasus
July 1(?), 1920 - Poland - Participation in the Polish-soviet war
July 8, 1920 - Poland(?) - Telegram to Ordzhonikidze: "My opinion is that one cannot endlessly manoeuvre between the sides. One should back one of the sides, in this case - Azerbaijan and Turkey. I have spoken to Lenin, he doesn’t mind"
August 1(?), 1920 - Moscow - Stalin returns to Moscow, where he defends himself before the Politburo by attacking the whole campaign strategy. Although this tactic works, he nonetheless resigns his military commission, something he had repeatedly threatened to do when he didn't get his way
September 22, 1920 - Moscow - At the Ninth Party Conference, Trotsky openly criticizes Stalin's war record. Stalin is accused of insubordination, personal ambition, military incompetence and seeking to build his own reputation by victories on his own front at the expense of operations elsewhere. Neither he nor anybody else challenges these attacks; he only briefly reaffirms his position that the war itself was a mistake, something which everybody agrees on by this point
September 25(?), 1920 - Moscow - Stalin feels resentful and under-appreciated and demands demission from the military, which is granted
November 9, 1920 - Baku, Azerbaijan - Speech at a joint session of the Central Committee of the Azerbaijani Communist Party
February 12, 1921 - Baku(?) - Telegram to Lenin: "ban Chicherin from sending notes to the Turks dictated by the Armenian nationalists"
March 1(?), 1921 - (While in Baku?) - Nadya gives birth to another of Stalin's sons, Vasily
May 30(?), 1921 - Nalchik - On vacations
June(?) 15(?), 1921 - Tiflis, Georgia - Stalin returnes to the southern Caucasus, there calling on Georgian Communists to avoid the chauvinistic Georgian nationalism which marginalised the Abkhazian, Ossetian, and Adjarian minorities in Georgia. On this trip, Stalin meets with his son Yakov, and brings him back to Moscow
June 25, 1921 - Tiflis - Session of the Commission to demarcate the borders between the republics of the South Caucassus
July 2, 1921 - Tiflis - Stalin participates (until July 7th) in the sessions of the plenum of the Caucassus Bureau Central Committee
March 27, 1922 - Moscow - The 11th Communist Party Congress begins
April 2, 1922 - Moscow - The 11th Communist Party Congress ends - Stalin is nominated as the party's new General Secretary

Lenin and Stalin at Lenin's dacha
Gorki, September 2, 1922

September 2, 1922 - Gorki, Moscow Oblast - Lenin and Stalin are photographed by Maria Ulyanova at Lenin's dacha in Gorki
April 17, 1923 - Moscow - The 12th Congress of the Russian Communist Party begins
April 25, 1923 - Moscow - The 12th Congress of the Russian Communist Party ends
January 16, 1924 - Moscow - The 13th Party Conference begins
January 18, 1924 - Moscow - The 13th Party Conference ends
January 27, 1924 - Moscow - Lenin's funeral. His body is carried to the Red Square. Stalin is one of the pallbearers
April 1(?), 1924 - (While in Moscow) - The ukranian mining town of Yuzovka is renamed Stalino (Today, Donetsk)
May 23, 1924 - Moscow - The 13th Communist Party Congress begins - Lenin's political testament is read
May 31, 1924 - Moscow - The 13th Communist Party Congress ends - Embarrassed by its contents, Stalin offers his resignation as General Secretary; this act of humility saves him and he is retained in the position
April 10, 1925 - (While in Moscow) - Tsaritsyn is renamed Stalingrad (today, Volgograd)
December 18, 1925 - Moscow - The 14th Communist Party Congress begins
December 31, 1925 - Moscow - The 14th Communist Party Congress ends, marked by the struggle for the control of the Party between Stalin and Trotsky
February 28, 1926 - Moscow - Daughter Svetlana is born
July 30, 1926 - Moscow - Trotsky and Stalin bear the coffin of Felix Dzerzhinsky
October 1(?), 1926 - Moscow - 15th Party Conference
October 1, 1927 - Moscow - Zinoviev and Trotsky are removed from the Central Committee
December 2, 1927 - Moscow - The 15th Congress of the All-Union Communist Party begins
December 19, 1927 - Moscow - The 15th Congress of the All-Union Communist Party ends
January(?) 1(?), 1928 - Novosibirsk - Stalin travels to Novosibirsk, where he alleges that kulaks were hoarding their grain and orders that the kulaks be arrested and their grain confiscated
February 1(?), 1928 - Moscow - Stalin brings much of Novosibirsk's grain back to Moscow with him in February
October 1(?), 1928 - Moscow - The "Five year Plan" starts being implemented, with focus on Heavy industries
January(?) 1(?), 1929 - Moscow - The Politburo announces the mass collectivisation of Agriculture, establishing both kolkhozy collective farms and sovkhoz state farms
November 1(?), 1929 - Moscow - Stalin removes Bukharin from the Politburo. (He opposed the forced collectivisation reforms)

Stalin's 50th birthday celebration, 1929

December 21, 1929 - Moscow - Celebration of Stalin's 50th birthday in the Kremlin
January 1(?), 1930 - Moscow - The Politburo approves the liquidation of the kulak class (independent wealthy farmers)
June 1(?), 1931 - Moscow - The decision to begin construction of the Moscow Metro is made by the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union
January 1(?), 1932 - Moscow - The plan for the first lines of the Moscow Metro is approved
May 1(?), 1932 - Moscow - Stalin introduces a system of kolkhoz markets where peasants could trade their surplus produce
August 1(?), 1932 - Moscow - A decree is introduced considering that the theft of even a handful of grain could be a capital offense
November 8, 1932 - Moscow - After a group dinner in the Kremlin in which Stalin flirts with other women, Nadya Alliluyeva Stalin, aged 31, shoots herself
March 21, 1933 - Moscow - The Soviet government approves a plan for 10 subway lines with a total route length of 80 km (50 mi)
May 1(?), 1933 - Moscow - Stalin releases from prison many convicted of minor offenses, ordering the security services not to enact further mass arrests and deportations
October 1(?), 1933 - Moscow - Stalin initiates confidential communications with Hitler
September 1(?), 1934 - Moscow - Stalin launches a commission to investigate false imprisonments; that same month he calls for the execution of workers at the Stalin Metallurgical Factory accused of spying for Japan
September 18, 1934 - (While in Moscow) - The Soviet Union becomes a member of the Society of Nations
December 1, 1934 - (While in Moscow) - A close friend of Stalin, Sergey Kirov, is murdered in Leningrad. The soviet leader becomes increasingly concerned by the threat of assassination
January(?) 1(?), 1935 - Moscow - Stalin orders the NKVD to expel suspected counter-revolutionaries from urban areas
May 1(?), 1935 - (While in Moscow) - The soviets sign a Treaty of mutual Assistance with France and Czechoslovakia
May 15, 1935 - Moscow - The first Moscow subway line is open to the public
July 25, 1935 - Moscow - The 7th World Congress of the Communist International (Comintern) begins
August 20, 1935 - Moscow - The 7th World Congress of the Communist International (Comintern) ends
August 14, 1936 - Moscow - The Soviet Press Agency TASS announces the discovery of a "Trotskyist-Zinovievist" plot and the imminent start of the Trial of the 16 accused
August 25, 1936 - Moscow - First Moscow Trial - Kamenev and Zinoviev are among those accused of plotting assassinations, found guilty in a show trial, and executed
January 1(?), 1937 - Moscow - Second Moscow Trial
July 30, 1937 - Moscow - NKVD order No.00447 is signed by Stalin, listing 268,950 people for arrest, of whom 75,950 would be executed
August 1(?), 1937 - (While in Moscow) - Soviet Union and China sign a non-aggression pact
August 15, 1937 - (While in Moscow) - Until August 15, 101,000 people are arrested and 14,000 convicted by order No.00447
February 14, 1938 - Moscow - "Response to Comrade Ivanov"
March 1(?), 1938 - Moscow - Third Moscow Trial - Bukharin and Rykov are accused of involvement in the alleged Trotskyite-Zinovievite terrorist plot and sentenced to death
July 23, 1938 - Moscow - The Omsk NKVD chief named Gorbach requests an increased quota of thousands of more executions, since his men had already fulfilled their plan; the request is approved by Stalin personally, who promotes Gorbach to a larger district
December 31, 1938 - (While in Moscow) - By the end of 1938, 386,798 soviet citizens are executed to fulfil order No.00447
May 1(?), 1939 - Moscow - Germany begins negotiations with the Soviets, proposing that Eastern Europe be divided between the two powers. Stalin sees this as an opportunity both for territorial expansion and temporary peace with Germany
August 23, 1939 - Moscow - The non-aggression Ribbentrop-Molotov pact is signed
September 17, 1939 - (While in Moscow) - The Red Army enters Eastern Poland
September 28, 1939 - Moscow - Germany and the Soviet Union exchange some of their newly conquered territories; Germany gains the linguistically Polish-dominated areas of Lublin Province and part of Warsaw Province while the Soviets gain Lithuania

October 5, 1939 - Moscow - Veteran finnish negotiator Juho Paasikivi arrives in Moscow to receive soviet proposals, which included a northward extension of the border in the Karelian Isthmus and a 30-year lease of the port of Hangö, at the mouth of the Gulf of Finland
November 30, 1939 - (While in Moscow) - Soviet Union invades Finland
December 14, 1939 - (While in Moscow) - The Soviet Union is expelled from the Society of Nations for invading Finland
March 5, 1940 - Moscow - Beria proposes to execute all captive member of the polish officer corps. Stalin and the Politburo approve
March 12, 1940 - Moscow - Moscow Peace Treaty signed by Finland and the Soviet Union - Finland cedes territories to the Soviet Union
April 3, 1940 - (While in Moscow) - Katyn Massacre: After April 3rd, about 22,000 polish prisoners are executed
May 1(?), 1940 - (While in Moscow) - Most members of the military Supreme Command are arrested and mass arrests happen throughout the military, often on fabricated charges. These purges replace most of the party's old guard with younger officials who did not remember a time before Stalin's leadership and who are regarded as more personally loyal to him. Party functionaries readily carry out their commands and seek to ingratiate themselves with Stalin to avoid becoming the victim of the purge. Such functionaries often carry out a greater number of arrests and executions than their quotas set by Stalin's central government
June 1(?), 1940 - (While in Moscow) - The Red Army enters the Baltic States
June 2, 1940 - Moscow(?) - First meeting with Zhukov
June 28, 1940 - (While in Moscow) - The Soviets invade Bessarabia and Northern Bukovina
July 3, 1940 - (While in Moscow) - The Soviets complete the annexation of Bessarabia and Northern Bukovina
August 1(?), 1940 - (While in Moscow) - The Baltic States are merged into the Soviet Union
August 20, 1940 - (While in Moscow) - Leon Trotsky is assassinated in Mexico
January 2, 1941 - Kremlin, Moscow - Meeting of Conference participants with Stalin
January 14, 1941 - Moscow - Appoints Zhukov chief of the General staff
April 1(?), 1941 - (While in Moscow) - The Soviets sign a neutrality pact with Japan
May 6, 1941 - Moscow - Stalin replaces Motolov as Premier of the Soviet Union
May 24, 1941 - Kremlin, Moscow - Stalin meets Zhukov and Timoshenko
June 14, 1941 - Kremlin, Moscow - Stalin is urged by Zhukov and Timoshenko to alert border forces and deploy more troops on the border
June 21, 1941 - Kremlin, Moscow - New meeting with Zhukov and Timoshenko - directive issued to all military districts warning of possible german surprise attack on 22 or 23
June 22, 1941 - Kremlin, Moscow - Zhukov and Timoshenko meet Stalin as reports of the invasion come in
June 25(?), 1941 - Moscow - Stalin orders a scorched earth policy of destroying infrastructure and food supplies before the Germans could seize them, also commanding the NKVD to kill around 100,000 political prisoners in areas the Wehrmacht approached
June 30, 1941 - Moscow - Stalin issues a decree establishing the State Defence Committee - GKO
July 1, 1941 - Moscow - Stalin removes Pavlov as commander of the western front and names Timoshenko
July 7, 1941 - Moscow - Stalin receives a telegram from Churchill
July 16, 1941 - Moscow - Stalin orders the arrest of Pavlov and his direct officers - (While in Moscow) - Yakov is captured at the Battle of Smolensk
July 19, 1941 - Moscow - Stalin is named people's commissar for defense
July 20, 1941 - Moscow - Stalin and the head of GPU issue a directive to all political commissars stressing their special responsability for maintaining discipline in the armed forces and for dealing harshly with cowards, deserters, and panic mongers
August 8, 1941 - Moscow - Stalin becomes supreme commander of the Armed Forces
August 16, 1941 - Moscow - Stalin issues order No.270 (signed by Zhukov) instructing that cowards and deserters are to be eliminated
August 18, 1941 - Moscow - Stalin and Stavka issue a directive that Kiev must not surrender
September 9, 1941 - Moscow - Stalin authorizes partial withrawal from Kiev. Changes his mind next day
September 11, 1941 - Moscow - Meets Zhukov. Appoints him commander of the Leningrad Front
September 12, 1941 - Moscow - Stalin directs frontline commander to form "blocking detachments" to stop red army soldiers from fleeing
September 17, 1941 - Moscow - Stavka finally authorizes a withrawal from Kiev to the eastern bank of the Dnepr
October 5, 1941 - Moscow - Stalin phones Zhukov in Leningrad, asking him to fly to Moscow
October 15, 1941 - Moscow - Stalin orders the evacuation of the Communist Party, the General Staff and various civil government offices from Moscow to Kuibyshev (now Samara), leaving only a limited number of officials behind
November 8, 1941 - Kremlin, Moscow - Zhukov meets Stalin in the Kremlin
July 28, 1942 - Moscow - Stalin issues Order No.227 - Not a step back! - which directed that those retreating would be placed in "penal battalions" used as cannon fodder on the front lines

Time Magazine, January 4, 1943

January 4, 1943 - (While in Moscow) - Stalin appears in the cover of "Time Magazine" as Man of the Year
March 16, 1943 - Moscow - Stalin orders Zhukov to go to Kursk to contain the german counteroffensive
April 14, 1943 - (While in Moscow) - Yakov is shot and killed at Sachsenhausen concentration camp, Oranienburg,  after refusing to obey orders
November 6, 1943 - Moscow - Speech at Celebration Meeting of the Moscow Soviet of Working People’s Deputies and Moscow Party and Public Organizations
November 28, 1943 - Teheran, Iran - First meeting of Churchill, Roosevelt and Stalin
February 5, 1944 - Moscow - Stalin assures Churchill that Poland will be free

Yalta Conference

February 4, 1945 - Yalta, Crimea - The Yalta Conference begins
February 11, 1945 - Yalta - The Yalta Conference ends
June 18, 1945 - Stalin's dacha, Moscow(?) - Stalin asks Zhukov if he still remembers how to ride a horse (for the victory parade)
July 16, 1945 - Berlin, Germany - Stalin arrives by train to Berlin
July 18, 1945 - Potsdam - Dinner with Churchill
July 24, 1945 - Potsdam - Churchill gives a banquet to Stalin and Truman
October 1(?), 1945 - Moscow - Stalin falls ill
October 9, 1945 - Moscow - Stalin, Molotov and Malenkov vote to "give comrade Stalin a holiday of a month and a half"
October 13(?), 1945 - Sochi - Stalin arrives in his special train at Sochi. Before the arrival, he suffers a serious heart attack
October 15, 1945 - Gagra, Abkhazia - The special train arrives at Gagra on the Black Sea
February 1(?), 1947 - Moscow - Stalin suggests that Lazar Kaganovich be sent to Ukraine to "help" Khrushchev (who falls sick with pneumonia)
April 1(?), 1947 - Moscow - Stalin withraws the Red Army from Northern Iran
December 1(?), 1947 - Moscow - Stalin's government devalues the ruble and abolishes the ration-book system
March 1(?), 1948 - Moscow - Stalin launches an anti-Tito campaign, accusing the Yugoslav communists of adventurism and deviating from Marxist–Leninist doctrine
March 9, 1948 - Moscow - Meeting between Stalin and his military advisors
March 12, 1948 - Moscow - A secret memorandum is sent to Molotov, outlining a plan to force the policy of the western allies into line with the wishes of the Soviet government by "regulating" access to Berlin
March 25, 1948 - Moscow - The Soviets issue orders restricting Western military and passenger traffic between the American, British and French occupation zones and Berlin
April 1, 1948 - Moscow - The new measures begin on 1 April along with an announcement that no cargo could leave Berlin by rail without the permission of the Soviet commander. Each train and truck was to be searched by the Soviet authorities
June 1(?), 1948 - (While in Moscow) - Berlin Blockade
June 24, 1948 - (While in Moscow) - The soviets sever land (including railways) and water connections between the non-soviet zones and Berlin
November 1(?), 1948 - Moscow - Stalin abolishes the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee, and show trials take place for some of its members
January(?) 1(?), 1949 - Moscow - Stalin brings Nikita Khrushchev from Ukraine to Moscow, appointing him a Central Committee secretary and the head of the city's party branch
March 1(?), 1949 - Moscow - North korean leader Kim Il-Sung, visits Stalin
April 15, 1949 - Moscow - Soviet news agency TASS reports a willingness by the Soviets to lift the blockade of Berlin
May 1(?), 1949 - Moscow - Stalin relents and ends the blockade of Berlin
May 12, 1949 - (While in Moscow) - The Soviet blockade of Berlin is lifted at one minute after midnight on 12 May 1949
August 1(?), 1949 - (While in Moscow) - The soviet atom bomb is tested in the deserts outside Semipalatinsk, in Kazakhstan
October 1(?), 1949 - (While in Moscow) - The soviets form East Germany into the German Democratic Republic in response to the western powers transforming Western Germany into an independent Federal Republic
December 16, 1949 - Moscow - Mao Zedong arrives in Moscow. First meeting with Stalin

Mao Zedong and Stalin, 1949

December 18, 1949 - Bolshoi Theatre, Moscow - Stalin celebrates his 70th anniversary alongside marxist-leninist leaders from the world
January 22, 1950 - Moscow - Talks with Mao Zedong
February 14, 1950 - Moscow - Sino-Soviet Treaty - Stalin and Mao Zedong sign a treaty of Friendship
February(?) 20(?), 1950 - Abkhazia - Vacations in his abkhazian dacha
March 1(?), 1950 - Moscow - North korean leader Kim Il-Sung, visits Stalin
May 1(?), 1950 - Moscow - Stalin agrees to provide support for the north koreans in invading the south
June 20, 1950 - Moscow - Publication of "Marxism and Problems of Linguistics" in the newspaper "Pravda"
September 30, 1950 - Moscow - First prosecution of the Leningrad Affair - several are sentenced to death on false accusations of embezzlement of the Soviet State budget for "unapproved business in Leningrad", which was labeled as anti-Soviet treason
September 26, 1951 - Gagra, Abkhazia - Stalin receives Georgian State Security Minister N.M. Rukhadze
October 29, 1951 - Gagra, Abkhazia - Rukhadze reports to Stalin that the allegations of bribe-taking had been proven false
November 3, 1951 - Gagra, Abkhazia - Stalin calls Rukhadze and proposes that he prepares a note about the bribery issue
January 1(?), 1952 - Moscow - Stalin has one doctor imprisoned after he suggests that he should retire to improve his health
September 1(?), 1952 - Moscow - Several Kremlin doctors are arrested for allegedly plotting to kill senior politicians in what came to be known as the Doctors' Plot; the majority of the accused were Jewish
March 1, 1953 - Kuntsevo, Moscow - Stalin is found semi-conscious on the bedroom floor of his Volynskoe dacha in Kuntsevo
March 5, 1953 - Kuntsevo, Moscow - Stalin dies of a cerebral haemorrhage, aged =(END)

Bibliography

VOLKOGONOV, Dmitri - Stalin, Triumph and Tragedy, 1991