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| 1650 | Birth |  |
| 26th May Ashe Birth of John Churcill, Devon to an impoverished gentry family |
| 26th May Ashe Born at Ashe, Devon to an impoverished gentry family |
| 1665 | Page Churchill | |
| London Appointed Page to James , Duke of York |
| 1667 | Ensign Foot Guards Churchill | |
| London Appointed Ensign in the Foot Guards |
| 1672 | Battle of Sole Bay | |
| 28th May Sole Bay Serves under James at the Battle of Solebay |
| 1672 | Captain | |
| Solebay Appointed Captain after the Battle of Solebay |
| 1673 | Siege of Maastricht | |
| 5th June Maastricht Serves under the Duke of Monmouth in the service of Louis XIV |
| 1674 | Battle of Enzheim | |
| 4th Oct Enxheim Leads the charge at Enzheim |
| 1674 | Battle of Sinsheim | |
| 16th June Sinsheim Fights at the Battle of Sinsheim |
| 1674 | Colonel | |
| London Appointed Colonel after the battle of Sinsheim |
| 1678 | Marriage | |
| Marries Sarah Jennings |
| 1682 | Peerage | |
| Aynmouth Created Baron Churchill of Aymouth |
| 1683 | Colonel | |
| London Appointed Colonel of the 1st Dragoons |
| 1685 | Battle of Sedgemoor | |
| 6th July Sedgemoor Commander of the Royalist army which defeats the Duke of Monmouth |
| 1685 | Peerage | |
| London Created Baron Churchill of Sandridge |
| 1688 | Alliance | |
| 24th Nov Concludes the terms of an alliance with William of Orange |
| 1688 | Battle of Walcourt | |
| 25th Aug Walcourt Commands 8,000 English in a grand alliance victory over the French |
| 1688 | Lieutenant General | |
| London Appointed Lieutenant General |
| 1688 | Succession | |
| Axminster Joins forces with William & Mary at Axminster |
| Torbay Supports William & Mary after they land at Torbay |
| London Supports William & Mary because he is unhappy with James ' pro-Catholic policies |
| 1689 | Peerage | |
| London Created Earl of Marlborough |
| 1689 | Privy Council | |
| London Appointed Privy Councillor |
| 1690 | Capture of Cork | |
| Sep London Commands an Army which captures Cork |
| 1690 | Capture of Kinsale | |
| Sep London Commands an Army which captures Kinsale |
| 1692 | Arrest | |
| London Imprisoned on charges of plotting to restore James II |
| 1698 | Governor | |
| Appointed Governor to Anne's son, the Duke of Gloucester |
| 1698 | Royal Justice | |
| London Appointed Royal Justice |
| 1700 | Commander | |
| Sep Appointed Commander of the Home Army in England & the Netherlands |
| 1700 | Master General Ordinance | |
| Sep London Appointed Master of the General Ordinance |
| 1700 | Peerage | |
| Sep London Created Knight of the Garter |
| 1701 | Commander | |
| London Appointed Commander-in-Chief of the Armies in England & Holland |
| 1702 | Captain | |
| London Appointed Captain-General of England's land forces by Queen Anne |
| 1702 | Capture of Roermond | |
| 7th Oct London Defeats a French Army & captures Roermond |
| 1702 | Capture of Venlo | |
| 15th Sep London Defeats a French Army & captures Venlo |
| 1702 | Peerage | |
| Marlborough Raised from Earl to Duke after the surrenders of Kaiserwerth, Venlo & Liege |
| 1703 | Capture of Bonn | |
| May Bonn Captures Bonn |
| 1703 | Siege of Antwerp | |
| Antwerp Abandons the attack on Antwerp because of Dutch weakness |
| 1704 | Battle of Blennheim | |
| 13th Aug Blenheim Allied losses are 4,500 killed & 7,500 wounded |
| 13th Aug Blenheim Captures the Bavarian garrison at Blenheim |
| 13th Aug Blenheim Marks the turning point of the war against the French |
| 13th Aug Blenheim Prevents France from taking Vienna & causes Bavaria to withdraw from the war |
| 13th Aug Blenheim The French & Bavarians lose 38,600 killed, wounded or captured |
| 13th Aug Blenheim Victory for Marlborough & Eugene at Blenheim against the French-Prussian coalition |
| 1704 | Battle of Schellenberg | |
| 2nd July Schellenberg Commands the Battle of Schellenberg & takes Schellenburg Hill |
| 1704 | Capture of Donauworth | |
| London Captures Donauworth |
| 1704 | Capture of Trabach | |
| Trabach Captures Trabach after the Battle of Blenheim |
| 1704 | Capture of Trier | |
| Trier Captures Trier after the Battle of Blenheim |
| 1704 | Invasion of Bavaria | |
| July Bavaria Marlborough & Baden invade western Bavaria on their way to Munich |
| 1704 | Invasion of Danube | |
| River Danube Attempts to avoid a French invasion of Austria via Bavaria by marching on the Danube |
| River Danube Marches on the Danube at the head of British & German forces |
| 1704 | Mobilization | |
| 12th Aug Bavaria Marlborough & Eugene join forces with a combined force of 56,000 |
| 1704 | Siege of Donauworth | |
| July Donauworth Captures Donauworth after the battle of Schellenberg |
| 1705 | Battle of Elixem | |
| July Elixem Breaks the lines of Brabant at Elixem near Landen |
| 1705 | Captain | |
| Mindelheim Appointed Prince of Mindelheim by Emperor Leopold I |
| 1705 | Invasion of Flanders | |
| Flanders Wages an inconclusive campaign against Villeroi in Flanders |
| 1706 | Battle of Ramillies | |
| 23rd May Ramillies Prevents the Duc de Villeroi & Marshal Marsin joining up forces |
| 23rd May Ramillies Ramillies & a further 12 towns held by the French in The Netherlands are captured |
| 23rd May Ramillies The French sustain 15,000 casualties to the English & Dutch which are fewer than 4,000 |
| 1706 | Capture of Antwerp | |
| 6th June Antwerp Marlborough captures Antwerp |
| 1706 | Capture of Ath | |
| 4th Oct Ath Captures Ath |
| 1706 | Capture of Dendermonde | |
| 5th Sep Dendermonde Captures Dendermonde |
| 1706 | Capture of Dunkirk | |
| 6th July Dunkirk Captures Dunkirk |
| 1706 | Capture of Flanders | |
| May Flanders Captures Flanders from the French |
| 1706 | Capture of Mennin | |
| 22nd Aug Mennin Captures Mennin |
| 1708 | Battle of Oudenaarde | |
| 11th July Oudenaarde Britain, Hanover, Prussia & The Netherlands defeat the Duke of Burgundy |
| 1708 | Capture of Bruges | |
| 11th Dec Bruges Bruges falls to the Allies |
| 1708 | Capture of Lille | |
| 11th Dec Lille Lille falls to the Allies |
| 1709 | Battle of Plaquet | |
| 11th Sep Plaquet The French are driven out of Malplaquet & retreat from Mons in the Netherlands |
| 1709 | Capture of Ghent | |
| 30th Dec Ghent Ghent falls to the Allies |
| 1709 | Capture of Mons | |
| 20th Oct Mons Captures Mons |
| 1709 | Capture of Tournai | |
| 3rd Sep Tournai Captures Tournai after a siege |
| 1709 | Diplomacy | |
| London Talks with Louis XIV after French support for Charles of Austria as King of Spain |
| 1709 | Siege of Mons | |
| 11th Sep Plaquet The French are driven out of Malplaquet & retreat from Mons in the Netherlands |
| 1709 | Siege of Tournai | |
| 26th June Tournai 1st day of the siege of Tournai |
| 1710 | Capture of Bouchain | |
| 13th Sep Bouchain With Prince Eugene's help captures Douis |
| 1710 | Capture of Douis | |
| 27th June Douis With Prince Eugene's help captures Douis |
| 1711 | Dismissal | |
| 31st Dec Marlborough is dismissed from all of his army commands on a charge of embezzlement |
| 1713 | Exile of Churchill | |
| 16th Mar London Recalled from exile by the new Tory Government |
| 1714 | Captain | |
| London Restored to military command after the accesion of George I |
| 1722 | Burial | |
| 9th Aug Westminster Abbey Buried in Westminster Abbey |
| 1722 | Death | |
| 16th June Windsor Death of John Churchill. after a 3rd stroke at Cranbourne Lodge, Windsor |
| 1746 | Burial | |
| Blenheim John Churchill's remains are take from Westminster Abbey to Blenheim Palace |
