Born Wrington, Somerset

Entered Westminster school

May, elected to a studentship at Christ Church Oxford

First journey abroad as a secretary to Sir Walter Vane sent to Cleves on an embassy to the elector of Brandenburg

April - moved from Oxford to London to the household of Anthony Ashley Cooper, stayed there for the next 8 years

Secretary to the lords proprietors of Carolina colony (based in London), contributed to the Fundamental Constitutions of Carolina

A short visit to Paris

February, returned to Oxford, took a degree of bachelor of medicine

November, travelled to France with George Walls

Travels in France, visited libraries in Paris, kept a detailed journal

Arrived to Montpellier, met Thomas Herbert, later earl of Pembroke, and Denis Grenville, archdeacon of Durham

Agreed to become a tutor to Caleb, the son of Sir John Banks, a prosperous London merchant, travelled to Paris via Toulouse and Bordeaux

A short trip through provincial France with Caleb; in France made friends with the biblical scholar and antiquarian Nicolas Toinard and the librarian and savant Henri Justel, later a refugee in England

Return to London

Lived between Shaftesbury's house in Thanet House in Aldersgate Street, immediately to the north of the City, Oxford

By the 7th of September in Rotterdam in exile

Resident in Amsterdam

May, a request from the English crown to the the States General of the United Provinces for Locke’s arrest, Locke goes into hiding till May 1686, spends part of this time in Cleves

February, moved to Rotterdam

Returned to England following the Glorious Revolution

his most active decade in terms of publication

28 October, died at Oates