Born London

Matriculated at Trinity College, Cambridge

Travel to Madrid, enrolled at University of Alcalá de Henares

Returned to England

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

December, returned to England

Travel to Antwerp; return to England before 1660

January, travel to Constantinople as chancellor and private secretary to Ambassador Heneage Finch

Involved in the publication of the first ever book in English printed in the Ottoman Empire August 1663 - travel to Tripoli, Tunis, and Algiers; continued onto London

August, travel to Tripoli, Tunis, and Algiers; continued onto London

March, Travel back to Constantinople

April, travelled to the English factory at Aleppo; then encamped with the Ottoman army at Belgrade

December, travel back to London through the Balkans

Published major book in London (The Present State of the Ottoman Empire) andadmitted to the Royal Society

Appointed British consul at Smyrna (Izmir)

Lead an expedition which rediscovered the lost site of Thyateira

Travelled to Italy (6 months) on his way to London

Active period of literary, translation and scholarly activity in England

Travelled to Dublin as chief secretary in Ireland

Travelled back to London relieved of duties in Ireland

Appointed resident at the Hanse Towns of Hamburg, Lubeck, and Bremen

August 1689 - travelled to Hamburg

August, travelled to Hamburg

Active as a writer and scholar from Hamburg

May travelled back to London

November, died in Wardour Street, London; buried in the church of St Peter and St Paul,Aylesford