12 February, born at Groton Manor, Suffolk; educated at the King Edward VI grammar school at Bury St Edmunds

Admitted to Trinity College, Dublin

Returned to England without a degree

28 February, admitted to the Inner Temple

attempted to secure a purser's berth on a Turkey-bound vessel in pursuit of alchemical knowledge; Unsuccessful, he then joined the duke of Buckingham's fleet sent to relieve the French protestant stronghold at La Rochelle

Married his first cousin Marta and immigrated to New England

Led a group of people to found the town of Agawan north of Boston

Wife and infant daughter died; sailed to England; storm diverted vessel to Ireland; travelled through Ireland to England

Married Elizabeth Reade; accepted a commission to serve for one year as the governor of the Connecticut river; in New England by November

Returned to England to encourage more migration and investment; solicited support among his scientific associates for another venture: emigration to America to pursue alchemical research in a new riverine plantation along the Long Island sound

Returned to New England 

Moved temporarily to New Haven

21st of May, elected governor of Connecticut; waited six months before moving to his office in Hartford 

Mission to England to secure a royal charter for Connecticut; became the first colonial member of the Royal Society

5 April, died, buried in Boston