Samuel Pepys

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Education

Attends Huntingdon Grammar School

1644 - 1645

St. Paul's School

1646 - 1650

Cambridge University

1650 - 1651

Magdalene College

1651 - 1654

Other

Birth

2/23/1633 - 2/24/1633

Attended Execution of Charles I

1649 - 1650

Surgery

3/26/1658 - 3/27/1658

Deb (maid) is hired

10/1/1667 - 10/2/1667

Death

5/26/1703 - 5/27/1703

Diary

Writes Daily Diary entries

1660 - 1669

Major Events

He Marries Elisabeth de St. Michel

1655 - 1656

Second Anlgo-Dutch War

1665 - 1667

Great Plague

1665 - 1666

Great fire of london

10/2/1666 - 10/6/1666

Imprisoned for Jacobitism

1689 - 1690

Career

Became elder Brother of Trinity house

1672 - 1673

Promoted to Secretary to the Admiralty commission

1673 - 1674

appointed a Governor of Christ's Hospital

1675 - 1676

elected MP for Harwich in Charles II's third parliament

1679 - 1680

MP for Harwich

1685 - 1688