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| 1788 | Birth |  |
| Birth of FitzRoy Somers et, 1st Baron Raglan, eighth and youngest son of Henry Somers et, 5th Duke of Beaufort |
| 1815 | Battle of Waterloo | |
| Waterloo Distinguises himself as the leader of the Household Cavalry brigade at the Battle of Waterloo, wounded in the right arm and had to undergo amputation, but he quickly learned to write with his left hand |
| 1818 | Secretary Embassy | |
| Appointed Secretary to the embassy at Paris , 1st term |
| 1826 | Secretary Embassy | |
| Appointed Secretary to the embassy at Paris , 2nd term |
| 1827 | Secretary Embassy | |
| Appointed Secretary to the Duke of Wellington as Master-General of the Ordnance, and from 1827 till the death of the Duke in 1852 |
| 1852 | Peerage | |
| 20th Oct Created Baron Raglan |
| 1852 | Privy Council | |
| 16th Oct Appointed Privy Counsellor |
| 1854 | Capture of Piraeus | |
| 26th May Piraeus Anglo-French forces occupy Piraeus to prevent the Greek fleet from aiding Russia |
| 1854 | Commander | |
| 26th May Piraeus Promoted to full General and appointed to the command of the British troops sent to the Crimea in co-operation with a strong French army under Marshal St Arnaud and afterwards, up to May 1855, under Marshal Canrobert |
| 1854 | Mobilization | |
| 7th Sep Varna The Allied force departs to the Crimean Peninsular in a convoy of 150 warships |
| 18th Sep Old Fort The Allied force lands at Old Fort on an open beach 30 miles North of Sebastopol |
| 1855 | Death | |
| 28th June Sevastopol Death of Fitzroy James Henry Somers et, Commander of the British forces in the Crimea |
| 1855 | Siege of Redan | |
| 17th June Redan Commences the siege of Redan but fails & dies 10 days later |
| 1855 | Siege of Sevastopol | |
| Sevastopol Jointly commands the capture of Sevastopol, "the eye tooth of the bear" |
| Sevastopol Raglan and his staff are blamed by the press and the government for the hardships and sufferings of the British soldiers in the terrible Crimean winter before the Siege of Sevastopol, owing to shortages of food and clothing |
| Sevastopol Results in an Allied victory, is was promoted to the rank of Field Marshal |
| 10th Sep Sevastopol Forces the surrender of Sevastopol after 2 days of attacks on Malakoff & Redan |
