Born in the village of Seton, East Coast of Scotland

Visits Leiden for the first time

Graduates from the University of Edinburgh 

Graduates from University of Leiden, Master of Arts

Visits Antwerp, where he meets the geographer, Abraham Ortels.

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Visits Frankfurt, where he meets the historian, Markus Weber, and the physician, Adolph Occo.

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Arrives at Padua, meets the Scottish nobleman, John Rutheven, 3rd Earl of Gowrie

Matriculates at the University of Padua as student in law.

Meets the collector, Gian Vincenzo Pinelli, with whom he would form a close bond

Spends the winters of these years at the vast library of Gian Vincenzo Pinelli.

Dedicates poems to Pinelli

Through Pinelli, he meets Galileo Galilei

October, Journeys through Mantua, Mirandola, Reggio Emilia, Parma and Vicenza in the company of the librarian, Benedetto Zorzi

Becomes a member of the Accademia dei Ricourati, Padua, which meets, among other locations, at the library of Antonio Querenghi

Acquires early manuscript (1390–1410) of Dante’s Commedia, which he presented  to Pinelli, now preserved at the Biblioteca Ambrosiana

Upon Pinelli’s death, Seget is elected as temporary administrator of his library

Jailed at Venice for 3 years; acquitted after two. Details of offence unknown

Imprisoned again, this time at Frankfurt

Publishes Μελετηματα Ὑπογεια [Meletēmata Hypogeia, Underground Examples], a collection of verse written from prison

Visits Prague, Bohemia, where he meets the astronomer, Johannes Kepler

Visits Kraków, Poland. Publishes the Idyllia Duo, a small collection of poems on his life at Prague

In Magdeburg, Germany, he publishes the Thomas Seghetus a Gravi Calumnia Vindicatus, hoping to vindicate himself from accusations of composing libellous verse against James I

Leiden. Prepares the De Principatibus Italiae Tractatus Varii, published in the following year, on the princes of the Italian city states

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