8 March, baptised at St Lawrence Jewry, London

Matriculated as a commoner at Magdalen College, Oxford

Left Oxford without taking a degree, joined the Middle Temple

Travelled to Spain member of the suite of Charles Howard, first earl of Nottingham, sent to ratify the peace treaty between England and Spain

Appointed a member the Royal Council of Virginia and of the council of the Virginia Company, one of the substantial early investors in the Company of Adventurers

February, sailed as a commander of an expedition to Guiana, established settlers on the north bank of the Amazon

Accompanied Princess Elizabeth to Heidelberg for her marriage

Travelled to Spa from Heidelberg, he held some theological disputations with the Catholic priest and controversialist Thomas Wright which were published at Mechelen as Quatuor colloquia (1614); returned to Heidelberg and then to England

Elected MP for Tamworth

Travelled to the Low Countries to serve as a soldier

October, returned to England and accepted an invitation from the East India Company to become England's first ambassador to Mughal India

Ambassador to the Mughal Empire, travelled via the Cape of Good Hope

Presented his credentials to Emperor Jahangir at Ajmer

Travelled with Jahangir from Ajmer to Mandu

October, Roe followed Jahangir from Mandu to Ahmadabad

September, travelled to Surat

February, travelled back to England from Surat

No travel but active involvement in the Virginia Company and in advocating for the Bohemian cause

Ambassador at Constantinople

October, travelled via Malaga, Messina, Zante, Chios and Alexandria Troas to Constantinople

Collected antiquities, coins, medals and manuscripts; Cyril Lukaris, patriarch of Constantinople, and Roe became firm friends. Lukaris helped him to collect early Christian Greek manuscripts, which he presented to the Bodleian Library for the use of protestant scholars. Lukaris presented to Charles I through Roe the Codex Alexandrinus, now in the British Library. Roe aided the installation of a short-lived Greek printing press

June, started travelling back to England; called at Smyrna, attacked by the Knights of St John at Malta, disembarked in Leghorn, travelled to Florence, Venice, Bergamo, and Turin, and thence through Switzerland and down the Rhine to The Hague to meet the exiled King and Queen of Bohemia (Elizabeth Stuart)

Arrived to England

Back to Europe on a diplomatic mission to build a Protestant alliance; met with the King and Queen of Bohemia in Rhenen, Gelderland; visited Christian IV in Copenhagen to advocate for Eastland Company

August, met Gustavus Adolphus at the Swedish fortified camp near Marienburg in Brandenburg

September, travelled to Warsaw to negotiate Swedish-Polish truce; successfully negotiated for the return of Latvian lands of Jacob, the Duke of Kurland (Jacob later provided 62 ships for Charles during the Civil Wars in return)

December, back in Danzig, mediating an agreement between Danzig and the Swedes

April, visited Hamburg and Glückstadt

Involved in preparing an expedition for the discovery of the North-West passage

No travel but active involvement in decisions about the future of Virginia colony

Appointed ambassador-extraordinary at Hamburg for talks between France, Sweden, Denmark, the Netherlands, and England; in Hamburg in 1638-39

MP for Oxford in the Long Parliament

April, ambassador to the Imperial Diet in Regensburg, travelled to Vienna, secured the release of Prince Rupert who was a prisoner of war

June, travelled to the Hague to wait for Queen Henrietta Maria

September, arrived in London

January, summoned to Oxford, instructed to reopen correspondence with the king's representatives in Europe and the emperor's in London and Vienna

November, died probably at Woodford Manor, Essex