Samuel Pepys

  • Samuel Pepys is Born

    Samuel Pepys was born in Salisbury Court, near Fleet Street, London.
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    Samuel Pepys' Life

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    Magdalene College

    Sometime in this year Samuel Pepys was awarded a scholarship, and set off to attend Magdalene College of the University of Cambridge.
  • Got Married

    At any unknown date in 1655, after earning enough money at his new clerical job, Samuel Pepys married Elizabeth St. Michel
  • The Plague

    The Bubonic Plague came back like a boomerang.
  • Moved to Axe Yard

    Near King Street, and the Palace of Whitehall.
  • Stones Removed

    Had a dangerous to remove bladder stones.
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    Writing the Diaries

    After moving to Axe Yard, he began writing the diaries. He wrote from the age of 27 to the age of 36, when he stopped, out of worry that he might be losing his eyesight.
  • Clerk of Acts to the Navy Board

    He got a new job in an administrative position at the Royal Dockyards
  • The Great Fire of London

    The streets burned because the baker forgot about his bread.
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    Commanded the Naval Organization during the Dutch War

    Made reforms in the naval business such as a new shipbuilding program, and half-pay for officers, which inspired even more reform later on.
  • Secretary to the Admiralty

  • Became a Member of Parliament

    First for Norfolk, then for Hawich.
  • Forced to resign from the Admirality and Imprisioned

    under suspicion of selling naval secrets to the French, the charges were later dropped.
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    President of the Royal Society

  • Charles II dies, James II takes over

  • James is overthrown

    so Sammuel Pepys' career comes to an end.
  • Arrested again

    under accusation of having Jacobite sympathies, again he was soon released.
  • His health begins to worsen

    As his bladder stones comes back.
  • Moves to Clapham

  • Samuel Pepys Dies

    Samuel Pepys died in Clapham, after his health has been deteriorating for several years.