Lemuel Gulliver: a timeline

As I prepare to play Lemuel Gulliver in Wishing Chair Productions' Gulliver's Travels, I have searched online in vain for a timeline of Gulliver's (admittedly fictional) life. Finding nothing, I have created one myself. I was aided greatly here by Isaac Asimov's terrific The Annotated Gulliver's Travels.

Where possible, dates are in year/month/date format, followed parenthetically with Gulliver's age that year. As a point of reference, it may be interesting to note that Jonathan Swift was born in 1667 and died in 1745.

Here is my timeline:

1661 — born in Nottinghamshire

1675 (14) — goes to Cambridge

1678 (17) — leaves Cambridge, apprentices with surgeon Bates

1682 (21) — goes to study medicine in Leyden

1685 (24) — sets sail as surgeon on The Swallow

1688 (27) — returns, settles in London, opens medical practice, marries Mary Burton (who is probably no older than 17)

1690 (29) — his practice fails, sets sail to the East and West Indies

1696 (35) — returns to England, tries to renew practice

1699/5/4 (38) — sets sail on The Antelope; by this time has fathered Johnny and Betty

1699/11/5 — The Antelope is shipwrecked; Gulliver arrives in Lilliput

1701/9/24 (40) — sails away from Blefuscu

1702/4/13 (41) — arrives back in England

1702/6/20 — sets sail on The Adventure

1703/3 (42) — leaves the Cape of Good-hope

1703/6/16 — Brobdingnag is spotted

1705 (44) — eagle carries Gulliver from Brobdingnag

1706/6/3 (45) — arrives back in England

1706/8/5 — sets sail on The Hopewell

1707/4/11 (46) — arrives at Fort St. George

1708/2/16 (47) — leaves Laputa for Balnibarbi

1708/4/21 — sails to Luggnagg

1709/5/6 (48) — leaves King of Luggnagg

1709/5/27 — arrives in Japan

1709/6/9 — arrives in Nangasac

1710/4/20 (49) — arrives back in England (Gulliver writes he’s been gone 5 years and 6 months, but this is wrong); soon after arrival conceives third child

1710/9/7 — sets sail as Captain of The Adventurer

1711/5/9 (50) — is abandoned on Houyhnhnms Land

1715/2/15 (54) — leaves Houyhnhnms Land

1715/11/5 — arrives in Lisbon with Captain Pedro de Mendez

1715/11/24 — leaves Lisbon

1715/12/5 — arrives back in England; youngest child is now 5 years old (assuming it was born); Johnny and Betty are between 16-27
1719 (58) — poses for frontispiece engraving

1720-21 (59-60) — writes Gulliver’s Travels; Betty is now married with children

1723 (62) — moves back to Nottinghamshire

1726/10/28 (65) — publishes Gulliver’s Travels

1727/4/2 (66) — writes letter to cousin Sympson