Baptised at the Huguenot church in Rouen, France

October, enrolled at the School of Erasmus in Rotterdam

Enrolled at Leiden University

Graduated from Leiden University

He joined Robert Blake's fleet in Italy for a punitive expedition against the privateers of Tunis (4th of April Porto Farina)

Established in England by this date; 31 May ordained in the Church of England by Bishop Morton

Domestic chaplain of Bishop Morton

Moved to Durham with the Bishop

Spent three months at St John’s College, Cambridge 

Married Frances Corbett and became rector of Eaglescliffe

A series of promotions and uncertain movements during the Civil Wars, chaplain to the King

Went into exile in Rouen on the patrimony of Preaumont left to him by his father; left his wife and family in England

Moved to Paris with his three pupils

Left for Italy with the pupils; obtained letters of commendation to a cardinal in Rome and to Sir Kenelm Digby, the King’s representative, from the exiled Queen Henrietta Maria

Travelled to Rome through Pisa, sightseeing in Pisa

October, set off from Rome for a tour of the Kingdom of Naples, Sicily and Malta

Arrived back to Rome; pupils left by 1650; started planning a trip to the Levant to achieve a union of the Church of England and the Greek Church (his own plan)

Travels in the Levant

Went to Zante, preached so effectively that he was persecuted by the Roman Catholics and had to escape to the mainland, where the metropolitan asked him to preach in Greek to the bishops and clergy

Went to Padua to study medicine

Spent Easter in Aleppo

Summer, a tour of the Holy Land

Spent the winter in Aleppo

Travelled by land to Constantinople with some Turkish merchants

Acted as a chaplain at the English Embassy and to the French community

Accepted an invitation from George Racoczi II, prince of Transylvania, to be professor of theology at the University of Alba Julia; after the destruction of the university by a Turkish invasion acted as a secretary to George Racoczi II

Racoczi killed at the battle of Gyala, Basire prepared for travelling home

Landed in Hull

Established in Durham

13th of October, died in Durham, buried in the Cathedral churchyard alongside the grave of a servant who had served him for many years rather than alongside his wife of forty years