THE LODGE HOPE OF KURRACHEE
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| Date | Event | Date | Person |
| BCE | BCE | ||
| c2000 | Migration of Patriarchs from Ur of the Chaldeans (?) | Abraham lived (?) | |
| Egyptian Captivity (?) | |||
| c1280 | Exodus (?) | Moses lived (?) | |
| c1000 | Rig Veda (VSL of the Hindus) | ||
| c996 | Solomon born | ||
| c966 | Construction of First Jerusalem Temple by Solomon | ||
| c639 | Josiah becomes King of Judah | ||
| c622 | First Jerusalem Temple repaired | c622 | Hilkiah discovers Book of the Law (?) |
| c600 | Upanishads | ||
| 597 | Babylonian Captivity - First deportations | ||
| 586 | Destruction of First Jerusalem Temple by Nebuchadnezzar | ||
| c570 | Pythagoras born | ||
| c563 | Siddartha Gautama born | ||
| 562 | Babylonian Captivity - Last deportations | ||
| 538 | Decree of Cyrus | ||
| c527 | Bodhidharma arrives in China (?) | ||
| 520 | Construction of Second Jerusalem Temple by Zerubbabel | ||
| 515 | Dedication of Second Temple | ||
| 490 | Zeno born | ||
| 469 | Socrates born | ||
| 445 | Nehemiah arrives in Jerusalem | ||
| Torah - Pentateuch compiled (VSL of the Jews) | 428 | Ezra arrives in Jerusalem | |
| 427 | Plato born | ||
| 384 | Aristotle born | ||
| 356 | Alexander the Great born | ||
| c300 | Euclid born | ||
| c285 | Septuagint translated | ||
| c80 | Marcus Vitruvius Pollio born | ||
| 55 | First Roman invasion of Britain - Julius Caesar | ||
| 20 | Construction of Third Jerusalem Temple by Herod the Great | ||
| c4 | John the Baptist born | ||
| Jesus born | |||
| CE | CE | ||
| c6 | John the Evangelist born | ||
| 31 | Jesus executed | ||
| 43 | Second Roman invasion of Britain - Claudius | ||
| 60 | Iceni Revolt | ||
| 80 | Destruction of Third Jerusalem Temple by Romans | ||
| 2ndC | 2ndC | ||
| 121 | Hadrian's Wall | ||
| 139 | Antonine Wall | ||
| 3rdC | 3rdC | ||
| c250 | Scots settle Dalriada - Argyll | ||
| 4thC | 4thC | ||
| 325 | Council of Nicaea | ||
| c367 | Invasion of Roman Britain by Picts & Scots | ||
| c390 | Invasion of Britain by Angles, Saxons & Jutes | ||
| 397 | Ninian founds Whithorn - Galloway | ||
| 5thC | 5thC | ||
| 405 | Vulgate Bible (VSL of the Roman Catholics) | ||
| 430 | Roman imperial control in Britain ends | ||
| 6thC | 6thC | ||
| 563 | Columba founds Iona - Argyll | ||
| 570 | Mohamed born | ||
| 7thC | 7thC | ||
| 622 | Hegira | ||
| c650 | Koran - Suras Collected (VSL of Islam) | ||
| 662 | Ali assassinated | ||
| 664 | Synod of Whitby | ||
| 681 | Husain killed | ||
| 685 | Dunnichen | ||
| c691 | Construction of Dome of the Rock (Omar's Mosque) | ||
| 8thC | 8thC | ||
| 732 | Battle of Poitiers (Tours) | ||
| 793 | First Viking landing in Britain | ||
| 9thC | 9thC | ||
| 849 | Kenneth McAlpine becomes King of Scots & Picts | ||
| 10thC | 10thC | ||
| 900 | Constantine II becomes King of Pictland - Alba | ||
| 11thC | 11thC | ||
| 1016 | Carham | 1016 | Malcom II unites Scotland |
| 1058 | Malcom III founds Canmore dynasty | ||
| 1066 | Norman conquest of England | ||
| 1068 | Margaret Atheling given refuge in Fife | ||
| 1072 | Benedictine Priory Church established in Dunfermline - Fife | ||
| 1076 | Peter the Hermit preaches Crusade | ||
| 1090 | Hashshashin Sheik Hasan-i-Sabah establishes fedayeen base at Alamut | ||
| 1095 | 1st Crusade | ||
| 1099 | Jerusalem falls to Crusaders | ||
| 12thC | 12thC | ||
| 1118 | Knights Templar founded by Hugues de Payens, Godfrey de Saint-Omer and eight others | ||
| 1128 | Council of Troyes | 1128 | Bernard of Clairvaux authors Templar Rule |
| 1135 | Bernard of Clairvaux writes De Laude Novae Militae | ||
| c1136 | Start of Gothic Architectural Period - Basilique St. Denis | ||
| 1146 | Bernard of Clairvaux preaches Crusade | ||
| 1147 | 2nd Crusade | ||
| 1150 | Krac de Chevalier constructed | ||
| Dunfermline Priory Church raised to Abbey status - Fife | |||
| 1160 | St. Andrew's Cathedral founded - Fife | ||
| 1170 | Domenic Guzman born | ||
| c1181 | Chrétien de Troyes commences the romance Perceval, the Story of the Grail | ||
| 1187 | Hattin | 1187 | Saladin reconquers Jerusalem for Islam |
| 1189 | 3rd Crusade | ||
| 1192 | Saladin allows pilgrim access to Holy Sepulchre | ||
| Inchcolm Abbey founded - Fife | |||
| 13thC | 13thC | ||
| 1202 | 4th Crusade | ||
| 1208 | Albigensian Crusade | ||
| 1215 | Magna Carta | ||
| 1244 | Jerusalem retaken for Islam | ||
| c1270 | William Wallace born | ||
| 1274 | Robert Bruce born | ||
| 1291 | Acre falls | ||
| 1297 | Stirling Bridge | ||
| 14thC | 14thC | ||
| 1307 | Templars arrested in France - Friday 13th October | ||
| 1308 | Chinon Parchment | ||
| 1308-21 | Dante Alighieri's Commedia written | ||
| 1312 | Templar Order dissolved | ||
| 1314 | Bannockburn | 1314 | Jacques de Molay burnt at stake |
| Larmenius Charter (?) | |||
| 1320 | Declaration of Arbroath | ||
| 1326 | Consilium Avenionense - Church decree against craft secret societies | ||
| 1337 | Start of Hundred Year War | ||
| 1349 | Black Death - Britain | ||
| c1350-53 | Giovanni Boccaccio's Decameron written | ||
| c1380-90 | Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales written | ||
| 1381 | English Peasants' Revolt under Watt the Tyler, John Ball & Jack Straw | ||
| 1384 | Wycliffe Bible | ||
| c1390 | Regius Poem | ||
| 15thC | 15thC | ||
| 1412 | St. Andrews University founded - Fife | ||
| c1425 | Cooke Ms. | ||
| 1446 | Rosslyn Chapel | ||
| 1453 | End of Hundred Year War | ||
| 1456 | Gutenberg Bible published - Mainz | ||
| 1468 | Dunfermline Grammar (High) School founded - Fife | ||
| End of Lordship of the Isles | |||
| 1469 | Guru Nanak born | ||
| 1475 | Edinburgh Masons & Wrights Seal of Cause | ||
| 1479 | King James III's Master Mason elevated to the Earldom of Mar | ||
| 1482 | Robert Cochrane King's Master Mason hanged | ||
| 16thC | 16thC | ||
| 1517 | Martin Luther's Ninety Five Theses published - Wittenberg | ||
| c1525 | Tyndale's Bible (New Testament) published - Cologne | ||
| 1530 | Copernicus completes De Revolutionibus - Kracow | ||
| 1538 | John Calvin's Institutes of the Christian Religion published - Strasbourg | ||
| 1540 | Society of Jesus founded by Ignatius of Loyola | ||
| 1546 | George Wishart burnt at stake - St Andrews - Fife | ||
| Cardinal Beaton assassinated - St Andrews - Fife | |||
| John Knox captured and sent to galleys - St Andrews - Fife | |||
| 1557 | Scottish Reformation - First Covenant - Lords of Congregation | ||
| 1559 | John Knox returns to Scotland | ||
| 1560 | The Confession of Faith Professed and Believed by the Protestants | ||
| within the Realm of Scotland - ratifed by the Parliament of Scotland | |||
| 1587 | Edinburgh University founded | ||
| 1592 | First post Scottish Reformation Church constructed - Burntisland | ||
| 1598 | First Schaw Statutes | ||
| Oldest Lodge Minute - Aitchison's Haven | |||
| 1599 | The Lodge of Edinburgh's (Mary's Chapel's) earliest minute | ||
| Second Schaw Statutes | |||
| 17thC | 17thC | ||
| 1600 | Giordano Bruno burnt at stake | ||
| John Boswell Laird of Auchinleck present (signature & mark) at Lodge of Edinburgh | |||
| 1601 | First Sinclair Charter | 1601 | James VI initiated (?) |
| General Assembly agrees on object of new Bible - Burntisland - Fife | |||
| 1603 | England - Scotland Union of Crowns | ||
| 1604 | Guru Granth Sahib compiled (VSL of the Sikhs) | ||
| 1608 | John Dee dies | ||
| 1611 | James VI - Bible (VSL of Scottish Presbyterians) | ||
| 1614 | 1st Rosicrucian Manifesto - Fama Fraternitas | ||
| 1615 | 2nd Rosicrucian Manifesto - Confessio Fraternitas | ||
| 1616 | 3rd Rosicrucian Manifesto - Chymical Wedding of Christian Rosencreuz | 1616 | Johan Valentin Andreas ludibriam (?) |
| Galileo accused of heresy and recants | |||
| 1618 | Start of Thirty Year War | ||
| 1628 | Second Sinclair Charter | ||
| 1633 | Galileo tried by Inquisition | ||
| 1634 | Lord Alexander and two others admitted Fellowcrafts - Lodge of Edinburgh | ||
| 1637 | René Descartes' Discourse On Method published | 1637 | Dr. Robert Fludd dies |
| 1638 | Muses Threnody (concerning Perth) published in Edinburgh | ||
| Scottish National Covenant | |||
| 1639 | Start of British Civil Wars | ||
| 1641 | Sir Robert Moray initiated - Lodge of Edinburgh - Newcastle | ||
| 1645 | "Invisible College" founded | ||
| 1646 | Westminster Confession of Faith | 1646 | Elias Ashmole initiated |
| 1648 | End of Thirty Year War | ||
| 1649 | British Republican Commonwealth | 1649 | Charles I executed - London |
| 1651 | Thomas Hobbes's Leviathon published | ||
| 1653 | End of British Civil Wars | ||
| British Protectorate | |||
| 1654 | Johan Valentin Andreas dies | ||
| 1660 | Restoration of British Monarchy | ||
| 1661 | Episcopy re-imposed in Scotland | ||
| 1662 | The Royal Society of London for the Improvement of Natural Knowledge chartered | 1662 | Sir Robert Moray becomes first President of the The Royal Society |
| 1666 | Great Fire of London | ||
| 1670 | Mark Book of the Lodge of Aberdeen | ||
| 1677 | Lodge Canongate Kilwinning founded - Edinburgh | ||
| 1686 | Robert Plot's Natural History of Staffordshire published | ||
| 1687 | Isaac Newton's Principia Mathematica published (Laws of Motion & Gravity) | ||
| 1688 | British Revolution | ||
| Lodge Canongate and Leith / Leith and Canongate founded | |||
| Jacobite Lodge La Bonne Foi founded - St Germain-en-Laye (?) | |||
| 1689 | 1st Jacobite Rebellion | 1689 | John Graham 1st Viscount of Claverhouse killed |
| 1690 | Presbyterian Kirk governance restored in Scotland | ||
| John Locke's Two Treatises Of Government published | |||
| 1691 | Sir Christopher Wren adopted into the Fraternity of Accepted Masons | ||
| 1692 | Glencoe | ||
| 1696 | Edinburgh Register House Ms. | ||
| 18thC | 18thC | ||
| c1700 | Chetwood Crawley Ms. | ||
| 1701 | English Act of Settlement | ||
| 1703 | Isaac Newton elected President of The Royal Society | ||
| 1704 | Isaac Newton's Optiks published (Calculus) | ||
| 1707 | England - Scotland Treaty of Union | ||
| 1708 | Attempted Jacobite invasion | ||
| 1709 | Lodge of Journeyman Masons founded - Edinburgh | ||
| 1711 | Earliest Irish record of 'Master Mason' Degree - Trinity Ms.(?) | ||
| 1715 | 2nd Jacobite Rebellion | ||
| Lodge of Journeyman Masons obtain Decretal Arbitral - Edinburgh | |||
| 1716 | James Radclyffe, 3rd Earl of Derwentwater executed | ||
| 1717 | Grand Lodge of England founded - Moderns | ||
| 1719 | 3rd Jacobite Rebellion | ||
| 1721 | Rev. Dr. Jean Theophilus Desaguliers visits Mary's Chapel - Edinburgh | ||
| 1723 | Rev. Dr. James Anderson's First Book of Constitutions published - London | ||
| 1725 | Grand Lodge of Ireland in existence before | 1725 | William Hogarth initiated |
| 1726 | Jacobite Lodge Saint Thomas founded - Paris | 1726 | Charles Radclyffe, James Hector MacLean & Dominique O'Heguerty |
| Earliest Scottish record of 'Master Mason' Degree - Dumbarton Kilwinning | |||
| Graham Ms. | |||
| 1730 | Samuel Pritchard's Masonry Dissected published - London | ||
| 1731 | Grand Lodge of Pennsylvania founded | 1731 | Benjamin Franklin initiated |
| 1732 | GLI warrants IC Military Lodge - 1st Foot (Royal Scots) | ||
| 1733 | Scots Master degree worked in Union Lodge - London | ||
| 1734 | Benjamin Franklin becomes GM of Grand Lodge of Pennsylvania | ||
| 1735 | Lodge Glasgow Kilwinning (No.4) chartered | ||
| 1736 | Grand Lodge of Scotland founded | 1736 | William St. Clair of Rosslyn becomes first Grand Master of GLS |
| Grand Lodge of France founded | Chevalier Andrew Michael Ramsay's Oration | ||
| First purpose built Lodge Room - Canongate Kilwinning - Edinburgh | |||
| 1738 | Papal Bull - In Eminenti Apostolatus Specula | ||
| 1739-40 | David Hume drafts A Treatise Of Human Nature | ||
| c1742 | Karl Gotthelf Hund Baron von Hund receives Templar degrees (?) | ||
| 1743 | First mention of the 'Royal Arch' - Stirling (?) | 1743 | Earl of Kilmarnock recommends first SC Military (travelling) Lodge |
| Kadosch Degree worked - Lyon | John Coustos tortured by Portugese Inquisition | ||
| GLS warrants first SC Military Lodge - 55th Foot Col. Lee's Regiment | |||
| 1744 | Lodge Kilwinning breaks with GLS | ||
| Grand Lodge Three Globes (Prussian) founded - Berlin | |||
| 1745 | 4th Jacobite Rebellion | ||
| Provincial Grand Lodge of Fife & Kinross founded | |||
| 1746 | Culloden | 1746 | Charles Radclyffe 5th Earl of Derwentwater executed |
| Earl of Kilmarnock executed | |||
| 1747 | Estienne Morin founds Scots Master Lodge in Le Cap Français - Saint-Domingue (Haiti) | ||
| 1749 | C.G Marschall von Beiberstein founds Lodge of the Three Hammers - Naumberg | ||
| c1750 | Karl Gotthelf Hund Baron von Hund und Alten Grotkau institutes Rectified Masonry | ||
| 1750 | Denis Diderot conceives and becomes Editor in Chief of the Encyclopaedia | ||
| Giovanni Jacopo Casanova initiated | |||
| 1751 | Papal Bull - Providas | ||
| Encyclopaedia First Volume published - Paris | |||
| 1752 | George Washington initiated - Fredricksburgh (No.4) - Virginia | ||
| 1753 | Oldest Royal Arch minute - Fredricksburg (No.4) - Virginia | ||
| 1754 | Clermont Chapter founded - Paris | 1754 | Chevalier Bonneville establishes Clermont Chapter in Paris (?) |
| 1756 | Ancient Grand Lodge of England founded | 1756 | Johannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus Mozart (Amadeus) born |
| Lawrence Dermott's First Book of Constitutions Ahiman Rezon published - London | |||
| St Andrews Lodge Boston chartered by GLS | |||
| 1757 | Marie Joseph Paul Yves Roche Gilbert du Motier Marquis de Lafayette born | ||
| 1758 | "Strict Union" between Ancients and GLI | ||
| Fredericksburg (No4) Virginia chartered by GLS | |||
| Council of Emperors of the East & West founded - Paris | |||
| 1759 | Dr. Benjamin Franklin visits Lodge St. David - Edinburgh | ||
| James Boswell initiated | |||
| 1761 | Estienne Morin issued with a Patent for the New World by the Grand Lodge of France | ||
| 1762 | Constitutions - Rite of Perfection | 1762 | John Hancock affiliates to St Andrew's Lodge - Boston Massachusetts |
| Jean-Jacques Rousseau's The Social Contract published | |||
| 1764 | Rectified Masonry renamed Strict Observance | ||
| Loge de Parfaits d' Écosse formed in New Orleans | |||
| 1766 | Charter of Compact - Royal Arch Grand Chapter of England | ||
| Loge Contrat Social founded - Paris | |||
| 1768 | Grand Lodge of France closed by Louis XVI | ||
| Encyclopaedia Britannica First Edition published - Edinburgh | |||
| Grand Lodge of England (Moderns) proposes Charter of Incorporation | |||
| St. Andrews Lodge confers Knight Templar Degree - Boston Massachusetts | |||
| 1769 | First recorded working of the Mark Degree in a speculative Lodge - Portsmouth England | ||
| 1770 | Grand Lodge Grand Land (Prussian) founded - Berlin | 1770 | John Paul (Jones) initiated |
| James Bruce reaches the source of the Blue Nile | |||
| 1771 | Grand Lodge of France revived as National Grand Lodge | ||
| Loge des Amis Reunis founded - Paris | |||
| 1773 | Boston Tea Party | 1773 | Paul Revere Master of St. Andrew's Lodge leads Boston Tea Party (?) |
| 'Strict Union' between Ancients and GLS | Louis Philippe Joseph Duc d' Orleans installed as Master of Grand Orient | ||
| National Grand Lodge of France becomes Grand Orient | |||
| 1775 | Start of American Revolution - Battle of Lexington and Concord | 1775 | Prince Hall initiated into No.441 38th Regiment of Foot IC |
| 1776 | American Declaration of Independence | 1776 | Alessandro Cagliostro initiated |
| Adam Smith's The Wealth of Nations published - Edinburgh | |||
| Loge Neuf Soeurs founded - Paris | |||
| Order of Perfectiblists (Illuminati) founded by Johann Adam Weishaupt | |||
| 1777 | Johann Adam Weishaupt (Spartacus) initiated | ||
| 1778 | François Marie Arouet (Voltaire) initiated - Loge Neuf Soeurs | ||
| John Paul (Jones) raids Britain | |||
| 1779 | David Hume's Dialogues concerning Natural Religion published | 1779 | Benjamin Franklin installed as Master of Loge Neuf Soeurs - Paris |
| Daniel O'Connell raised | |||
| 1780 | The Apollonian Society founded - Paris | 1780 | Johann Von Goethe initiated |
| 1781 | Immanuel Kant's Critique of Pure Reason published | 1781 | Robert Burns initiated |
| 1782 | Masonic Congress - Wilhelmsbad | ||
| 1783 | End of American Revolution - Treaty of Paris | 1783 | Simon Bolivar born |
| 1784 | Bavarian government acts against the Illuminati | 1784 | Johannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus Mozart (Amadeus) initiated |
| African Lodge No.459 chartered by GLE | Prince Hall installed as first Master of African Lodge No.459 | ||
| Jacques & Étienne Montgolfier initiated - Loge Neuf Soeurs | |||
| 1785 | Franz Joseph Haydn initiated | ||
| 1786 | Grand Constitutions - Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite | 1786 |
Honoré Gabriel Riqueti Compte de Mirabeau initiated |
| 1788 | American Constitution & Bill of Rights | 1788 | Deacon William Brodie hanged |
| 1789 | Start of French Revolution - Estates General | 1789 | George Washington elected first President of the USA |
| "Club Breton" formed | Louis Philippe Joseph 5th Duc d' Orleans joins Third Estate | ||
| Bastille stormed | |||
| Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen | |||
| 1790 | Loge Neuf Soeurs becomes Le Société Nationale de Neuf Soeurs | ||
| The Society of the Rights of Man and the Citizen ("Cordeliers' Club") formed | |||
| 1791 | "Club Breton" becomes Société des Amis de la Constitution séants aux Jacobins a Paris | 1791 | Honoré Gabriel Riqueti Compte de Mirabeau dies |
| Jacobins close Lodges | |||
| Theobald Wolfe Tone founds the Society of the United Irishmen | |||
| 1791-92 | Thomas Paine's The Rights of Man published | ||
| 1792 | "Jacobin Club" renames itself Le Société des Jacobins, Amis de la Liberté et de l' Égalité | ||
| 1793 | Terror | 1793 | Louis XVI executed - Paris |
| Jean Paul Marat (Cordelier) assassinated by Charlotte Corday (Girondin) | |||
| Louis Philippe Joseph 5th Duc d' Orleans (Philippe Égalité) executed | |||
| 1794 | Jacques René Hébert (Cordelier enragé) executed | ||
| Georges-Jacques Danton (Cordelier founder) executed | |||
| Lucie Simplice Camille Benoist Desmoulins (Cordelier) executed | |||
| 1794 | Thermador Reaction | Maximilien Marie Isadore de Robespierre (Jacobin) executed | |
| Jeunesse Dorée | Louis Antoine Leon de Saint-Juste (Jacobin) executed | ||
| Georges Auguste Couthon (Montagnard) executed | |||
| 1795 | Directory | 1795 | Napoléon Bonaparte initiated (only instructed?) |
| The Grand Orient of France - revived | |||
| Prof. John Robison's Proofs of a Conspiracy ... published | |||
| Battle of the Diamond | |||
| Orange Institution founded | |||
| 1797 | UK Unlawful Oaths Act | ||
| 1797-98 | Abbé Augustus Barruel's Memoires pour servir a l'histoire du Jacobinisme published | ||
| 1798 | Grand Orient of France - sanctioned by Paris police | ||
| Grand Lodge Royal York of Friendship (Prussian) founded - Berlin | |||
| United Irishmen Rebellion | |||
| 1799 | UK Unlawful Societies Act | 1799 | Napoléon Bonaparte ends Directory and establishes Consulate |
| GLS formally prohibits all non Craft Degrees | |||
| Lodge Kilwinning charters High Knight Templars of Ireland - Dublin | |||
| 19thC | 19thC | ||
| 1800 | GLS repeats prohibition of all non Craft Degrees | ||
| 1801 | Supreme Council AASR founded - Charleston USA | 1801 | Sir Walter Scott initiated |
| 1802 | Edward Jenner raised | ||
| 1804 | Supreme Council - Scottish General Grand Lodge - Paris | ||
| 1805 | Guiseppe Mazzini born | ||
| 1806 | Lodge Kilwinning reconciles with GLS | ||
| The Lodge of Edinburgh & The Associated Lodges secede from GLS | |||
| Parthenon Marbles removed from Athens by Thomas Bruce 7th Earl of Elgin | |||
| 1807 | Guiseppe Garibaldi born | ||
| Simon Bolivar initiated | |||
| 1811 | Royal Grand Conclave of Scotland founded (English charter) | 1811 | Alexander Deuchar appointed first Grand Master |
| Grand Lodge of Hamburg (Humanitarian) founded | Sir Thomas Stanford Raffles initiated | ||
| Grand Lodge of Bayreuth (Humanitarian) founded | |||
| Grand Lodge of Dresden (Humanitarian) founded | |||
| 1813 | United Grand Lodge of England founded | 1813 | Duke of Sussex becomes first Grand Master of UGLE |
| United Grand Lodge of England acknowledges Royal Arch | |||
| The Lodge of Edinburgh & The Associated Lodges reconciled with GLS | |||
| Rite of Memphis established | |||
| 1814 | End of French Revolution - Bourbons restored | 1814 | Mikhail Aleksandrovich Bakunin born |
| 1817 | Supreme Grand Royal Arch Chapter of Scotland founded | ||
| Grand Lodge of Scotland declares against Royal Arch | |||
| 1821 | Aleksandr Sergeyvich Pushkin initiated | ||
| 1824 | John Brown raised | ||
| 1826 | Papal Bull - Quo Graviora | 1826 | Daniel O'Connell elected to Parliament |
| Early Grand Encampment of Scotland founded (Irish Charter) | |||
| Morgan Affair | |||
| 1827 | Daniel O'Connell denies still being a Freemason | ||
| 1828 | Seceding Masons / Anti-Masonic Society founded - USA | ||
| 1831 | Anti-Masonic Party National Convention - USA | ||
| 1836 | Alamo | 1836 | James Bowie killed |
| David Crockett killed | |||
| William Barret Travis killed | |||
| 1842 | The Lodge Hope of Kurrachee chartered by GLS | 1842 | Prince Pyotr Alekseyevich Kropotkin born |
| Joseph Smith Jr. raised | |||
| Brigham Young raised | |||
| 1843 | Disruption of Scottish Kirk | ||
| 1846 | English Mark Grand Lodge founded | ||
| 1848 | Communist Manifesto - published | c1848 | Richard Francis Burton initiated - The Lodge Hope of Kurrachee |
| February Revolution - Paris | |||
| March Revolution - Berlin | |||
| 1849 | Pierre Joseph Proudhon initiated | ||
| 1854 | Christopher Houston (Kit) Carson initiated | ||
| John Yarker initiated | |||
| 1859 | Charles Darwin's Origin of Species published - London | ||
| 1861 | Start of American Civil War - Battle of Fort Sumter | 1861 | Samuel Langhorn Clemens (Mark Twain) initiated |
| 1864 | James Clerk Maxwell's Electro-Magnetic Field equations published | ||
| 1865-69 | Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy's War And Peace published | ||
| 1865 | End of American Civil War - Lee surrenders at Appomattox Court House | ||
| 1866 | Charles Hilton initiated | ||
| 1867 | Karl Marx's Das Kapital published - Hamburgh | ||
| 1871 | Paris Commune | 1871 | William Schwenck Gilbert initiated |
| Albert Pike's Morals & Dogmas of the AASR of Freemasonry published | |||
| 1872 | German Grand Lodge Alliance | ||
| c1874 | Albert Gallatin Mackey's Masonic Encyclopaedia published | ||
| 1875 | Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde initiated | ||
| 1877 | UGLE withdraws recognition of Grand Orient of France | ||
| 1881 | John Philip Sousa initiated | ||
| 1882-87 | Robert Freke Gould's The History of Freemasonry published | ||
| 1883 | Horatio Herbert Kitchener initiated | ||
| 1884 | Papal Bull - Humanum Genus | c1884 | Douglas Haig initiated - Elgin's Lodge at Leven No. 91 - Fife |
| 1885 | Taxil Hoax | 1885 | Rudyard Kipling initiated - Lahore |
| 1887 | McGibbon & Ross's Domestic and Castellated Architecture of Scotland published | ||
| 1890 | Papal Bull - Ab Apostolici | ||
| 1893 | Arthur Conan Doyle initiated | ||
| 1894 | Grand Lodge of France breaks from Supreme Council | 1894 | Henry Ford initiated |
| 1895 | Propaganda Due founded | ||
| 1896 | Arthur Seymore Sullivan initiated | ||
| 20thC | 20thC | ||
| 1900 | David Murray Lyon's History of the Lodge of Edinburgh No.1 published | ||
| 1901 | Theodore Roosevelt initiated | ||
| William McKinley assassinated | |||
| Winston Spencer Churchill initiated - Studholme Lodge 1591 | |||
| 1902 | Pyotr Kropotkin's Mutual Aid: A Factor in Evolution published | ||
| 1904 | Aleister Edward Alexander Crowley raised (GLF) | ||
| 1905 | Chapter General (Royal Grand Conclave) becomes Great Priory of Scotland | ||
| Albert Einstein's paper on The Special Theory of Relativity published | |||
| Sergyei Aleksandrovich Nilus publishes Protocols Of The Learned Elders Of Zion - Russia | |||
| 1908 | Mustapha Kemal initiated into the Committee of Union and Progress | ||
| 1909 | Young Turks depose Sultan Abdul Hamid | 1909 | Alexander Fleming initiated |
| Grand Lodge of Turkey founded | E.A.C.G.P. David Saxe Coberg Gotha Prince of Wales initiated | ||
| Early Grand Encampment subsumed into the Great Priory of Scotland | Harry S Truman initiated | ||
| 1911 | Franklin Delano Roosevelt initiated | ||
| 1912 | Winston Spencer Churchill resigns from Studholme Lodge | ||
| 1913 | National Grand Lodge of France founded | ||
| 1914 | Start of First World War | ||
| 1917 | Bolshevik Revolution | ||
| 1919 | End of First World War | ||
| Provincial Grand Royal Arch Chapter of Fife & Kinross founded | 1919 | 10th Earl of Elgin becomes first Grand Superintendent | |
| Bolsheviks close Russian Lodges | |||
| 1921 | Kronstadt | 1921 | John Edgar Hoover initiated |
| Nesta Helen Webster's Secret Societies and Subversive Movements - published | Reginald Joseph Mitchell initiated | ||
| 1922 | Prussian Grand Lodges withdraw from German Grand Lodge Alliance | 1922 | Johan (Jean) Julius Christian Sibelius initiated |
| 1923 | Harry Houdini initiated | ||
| 1925 | Benito Mussolini outlaws Freemasonry in Italy | ||
| Adolph Hitler's Mein Kampf published | |||
| 1928 | Josemaria Escriva founds Opus Dei | ||
| 1935 | Nazis close German Lodges | 1935 | Salvador Allende initiated |
| 1936 | Spanish Civil War | ||
| 1937 | Dr. Joseph Goebbels mounts Anti-Masonic Exposition - Munich | 1937 | Lyndon Baines Johnson (EA) initiated |
| 1939 | Start of Second World War | ||
| Francisco Franco outlaws Freemasonry in Spain | |||
| 1940 | Nazis order dissolution of Dutch & Belgian Lodges | ||
| Vichy Government orders dissolution of Grand Orient and Grande Loge | |||
| Nazis / Quisling close Norwegian Lodges | |||
| 1944 | D. Knoop & G.P. Jones The Scope & Method Of Masonic History published | ||
| D Day | |||
| 1945 | VE Day | ||
| Hiroshima - Nagasaki | |||
| VJ Day | |||
| 1947 | Partition of India into India & Pakistan | ||
| UN votes to partition Palestine | |||
| 1949 | Gerald Rudolph Ford Jr. initiated | ||
| 1950 | Korea | ||