1632. Birth of Sir Christopher Wren, October 20. 1642. Entered Westminster School. 1647. Invention of weather-clock. 1649. Entered Wadham College. 1651. B.A. 1653. M.A. and Fellow of All Souls. 1654. Meets John Evelyn at Oxford. 1657. Appointed Gresham Professor of Astronomy. 1658. Attempt to solve Pascal’s problem. 1660. Royal Society founded in Wren’s room at Gresham College. 1661. Appointed Savilian Professor of Astronomy. D.C.L., Oxford and Cambridge. Appointed Assistant to Sir John Denham, Surveyor-General. 1662. Offer of Tangier surveyorship refused. Appointed to survey old St. Paul’s. 1663. Doorway, Ely Cathedral. Pembroke Chapel, Cambridge, begun. Sheldonian Theatre, Oxford. 1665. Trinity College, Oxford: new court. Visit to Paris (July). 1666. Return from Paris (March). Report on old St. Paul’s (May), and First Design for dome over crossing. The Great Fire (September). Prepared new Plan of London. Appointed Surveyor-General and Principal Architect for repairing St. Paul’s, the City churches, and other public buildings. 1668. Emmanuel Chapel, Cambridge (1677). Repairs to Salisbury Cathedral Spire. 1669. First Marriage: to Faith Coghill, December 7. Appointed Surveyor-General of the King’s Works. 1670. St. Olave’s, Jewry (1679). St. Dunstan’s-in-the-East (1671). St. Michael’s Wood Street (1687). St. Mary Aldermanbury (1686). St. Mary-at-Hill (1676). St. Christopher’s (1675). St. Vedast Fosters (1673). St. Sepulchre’s (1677). St. Mary Woolnoth (1677): the pre-Hawksmoor church. St. Mildred Poultry (1679). St. Benet Fink (1681). St. Mary-le-Bow (1680). St. Lawrence Jewry (1686). St. Bride’s (1684). St. Dionis Backchurch (1686). St. Michael’s Cornhill (1677). St. Edmund the King (1679). St. Sepulchre’s (1677). “Rejected Design” for St. Paul’s. Temple Bar. 1671. St. Nicholas Cole Abbey (1681). St. George Botolph (1679). St. Mary-le-Bow Steeple (1683). St. Magnus (1687). The Monument. Wren meets Grinling Gibbons. 1672. St. Stephen’s Walbrook (1687). Wren knighted (or possibly 1674). 1673. St. Paul’s: “Model Design” approved by King (afterwards rejected). Trinity College Library, Cambridge. 1674. St. Bartholomew Exchange (1686). St. Stephen’s Coleman Street (1681); St. James Garlickhithe (1687). Honywood Library, Lincoln Cathedral. 1675. St. Paul’s: “Warrant Design” approved by King and first stone laid. Birth of son Christopher. Death of first wife. Greenwich Observatory. 1676. St. Anne and St. Agnes (1687). St. Michael’s Queenhithe (1687). St. Michael Bassishaw (1682). 1677. Christ Church (1691).