| c. 1630 | Enoch Root arrives in Leipzig from Bohemia “driven there one presumes by the fortunes of what we now call the Thirty Years' War”. He begins to tutor the three sons of von Hacklheber in exchange for the story that he is a relative named Egon von Hacklheber. |
| 1652 | Enoch Root as Egon von Hacklheber convinces Leibniz's mother that young Gottfried be allowed to use his dead father's library. Enoch departs on a journey expected to take several months and as far as England. On the road to Harz Mountains he fakes his death (“waylaid by robbers”) by planting a skelleton in his cloak. | 1655 | Enoch Root sees a young Isaac Newton engage in a school yard fight |
| 1661 | Daniel Waterhouse a student at Cambridge with Newton, witnesses the murder of a Puritan by aristocrats |
| 1663 | Daniel roommate with Newton |
| 1664 | Daniel & Newton still at Cambridge |
| 1665 | Daniel & Newton students Summer | The Plague & Daniel's errand into the City Daniel at Epsom with the Royal Society Jack Shaftoe a child in London; begins with brother Bob to earn money by hanging off the legs of hanged men |
| 1666 | The Great Fire |
| 1670 | Enoch Root in London to demonstrate Phosphorous 12 Aug | Report of the Royal Society |
| 1672 | Daniel in London |
| 1673 | Daniel meets Leibniz in London Begins a relationship with the actress Tess |
| 1683 | Jack at the siege of Vienna; meets Eliza, begins to travel westward with her to Holland September | Traveling with Eliza into German territories; Winters by the hot springs |
| 1684 | April | Late April | Saxony: Jack traveling with Eliza into German territories; encounters Enoch Root in Bockboden; Walpugisnacht: Jack escapes from the Pagans Summer - into Amsterdam |
| Winter 1684-85 |
Jack in Paris living in a garret |
| 1685 | February | Jack & Eliza in The Hague; Charles II dies; Daniel a doctor of the Royal Society; Jack working as a messenger April | Eliza & Monmouth Spring | Jack arrested, confronted by Churchill; Daniel discusses Newton's activity in 1677 in a coffee-house; June | Bob Shaftoe sees his brother and goes to England in anticipation of Monmouth's rebellion; Jack taken by Barbary pirates; July | Eliza at Versailles, begins correspondence: [12 July: Eliza to d'Avaux]; [4 Aug: Eliza to Leibniz]; [1 Sept: Eliza to d'Avaux]; [12 Sept: Eliza to Leibniz]; [25 Sept: Eliza to d'Avaux]; [29 Sept: Eliza to Leibniz]; October | Eliza on beach with William of Orange; meets Bob Shaftoe; on walk back to Huygens' Bob tells of his encounter with his brother Jack in June |
| 1686 | The Exchange play chapter |
| 1687 | March | Eliza letter to d'Avaux June | Eliza letter to d'Avaux August | Eliza to Leibniz October | Eliza letter to Leibniz December | Daniel in Netherlands, meets Fazio. Fazio along with Eliza thwart the conspiracy to kidnap William from the beach. Enoch present. |
| 1688 | 3 Feb | Eliza's letter to Leibniz April | Daniel threatened by Judge Jeffrey's. Has a bladder stone. July | Eliza letter to d'Avaux August-September | Daniel imprisoned in The Tower: remains under threat from Judge Jeffreys. Encounters Sgt. Bob Shaftoe of the Kings Black Torrent Guards Eliza makes it from France to Netherlands encoding a journal in cross-stitch: entries: [16 Aug], [17 Aug], [20 Aug], [25 Aug], [28 Aug], [30 Aug], [02 Sept], [05 Sept], [07 Sept], [08 Sept], [10 Sept], [12 Sept], [13 Sept], [xx Sept], [xx Sept] 17 Sept | Letter from d'Avaux to Rossignol 21 Nov | Letter from Rossignol to Louix XIV containing Eliza's decoded diary 11 Dec | The Glorious Revolution; Daniel sees James II in a tavern; later encounters Enoch Root at the Alchemical HQ at Charing Cross and confronts him as to his nature |
| 1689 | 27 June | Eliza gives birth to her son, who is the child of Rossignol the cryptoologist July | Leibniz in Venice: writes to Eliza August | The Hague Eliza replies 6 September | Sgt. Bob Shaftoe has been posted to Ireland, and steal correspondence from d'Avaux, which he mails to Eliza in Dunkirk. October | Daniel has his bladder stone removed by Hooke Jack is in Algiers, recovered from his pox-induced insanity 21 October | Eliza receives a visit from Rossignol December | The Confusion |
| 1690 | (The Confusion) |
| 1691 | (The Confusion) |
| 1692 | (The Confusion) |
| 1694 | (The Confusion) |
| 1696 | (The Confusion) |
| 1697 | (The Confusion) |
| 1700 | (The Confusion) |
| 1701 | (The Confusion) |
| 1702 | (The Confusion) |
| 1713 | 12 October | Enoch Root in Boston to seek out Daniel; meets a young Ben Franklin November | Daniel en route to England, still hugging the New England Coast: a battle with pirate Blackbeard |
| 1714 | The events recounted in The System of the World |
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