1725 – Robert Clive was born in Styche, Market Drayton, England on the 29th of September.
1742 – He joined the East India Company.
1743 – He accepted the position of writer, the lowest rank of clerical employee in the East India Company.
1744 – He assumed his duties in the city of Madras.
1747 – He escaped and accepted a commission in the British army as an ensign.
1751 – He captured Arcot compelling the French to give up their siege of the British-held town of Trichinopoly.
1753 – He returned to England where he was welcomed as a hero.
1756 – He was in India as a governor of Fort Saint David.
1757 – He promptly broke the peace with the nawab and defeated Siraj-ud-Dawlah and his army on the 23th of June.
1760 – He returned to England and bought a seat in Parliament.
1762 – He was elevated to the Irish peerage.
1764 – He was knighted to the Irish peerage.
1763 – He returned to India as governor and commander in chief of Bengal.
1767 – He returned to England and accused him of having used his offices in India for personal enrichment and caused Parliament to impeach him.
1769 – He acquired the House and Gardens at Claremont and commissioned Lancelot "Capability" Brown to re-model the garden and rebuild the house.
1772 – He defend his actions against critics in Britain.
1773 – He was acquitted of charges.
1774 – He was addicted to opium at length resulted in his suicide on the 22th of November.